A couple of us were out riding Darwen Moor last night, my mate got front and rear flats, thinking this a bit unlikely, I backtracked and found a lenght of wood, buried in the mud at 678209, with a double row of nails sticking out to about 1".
Be careful out there, a minor inconveinince to MTBers, I dread to think what would happen to a kid, dog or horse.
Sh*t what's wrong with people? Did you pick it up/report it?
What's more, even walkers will fall foul of it. The mentality of it.
I'd call the police on 101 - at least get it logged in case of other incidents?
Are there any Local Authority/Park rangers for that area? Tell them too.
Darwen? Perhaps it'd been used as part of a bizarre ritualistic sacrifice to pray for the enlargement of the local gene pool? 😉
thats a classic Binners (coming from Ramsbottom) 😆 😛
I'm looking for park ranger type contacts, don't suppose anyone has that?
I only mentioned it because that's what we were upto on Holcombe Moor last night 😆
that's pretty f****d up.
What a tool.
can we have a streetmap link for the navigationally inept?678209
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My horsey riding colloeage reckons that this could have lead to a horse having to be put down
so do you live lower or upper Ramsbottom? 😆 🙄 😳
"can we have a streetmap link for the navigationally inept?"
thats it, I dug it up, it's gone now.
Wasn't there a similar occurrance somewhere else up north a couple of years ago? Cant remember where exactly, but it was north of birmingham. 😆
Loose nails have been left around Cannock Chase recently too.
Wasn't there a similar occurrance somewhere else up north a couple of years ago? Cant remember where exactly, but it was north of birmingham.
Hardy folk up north, we have to deal with all sorts of things, fishing wire, barb wire and walkers to name but a few.
I've seen that arround Darwen when I lived up that way. Must have been 6 years ago now since I rode there. Exactly the same setup and asme comments about walkers and horses.
TO be honest, when it comes to planks with nails through them, we're just grateful if nobody is trying to smack us round the head with one of them
Ha ha, I have ridden the Cape Argus race in Cape Town in the last 3 years and last year I punctured just in a Cape Coloured area. As soon as I stopped I found myself in the middle of a small crowd of coloured lads who wanted to help me change my tyre; the old inner tube disappeared and shortly afterwards I saw a lad walking around with about a dozen inner tubes around his neck. Turns out they scatter tacks on the road in the certain knowledge that a fair number of the 32,000 riders will puncture on their street, giving them a fresh supply of inner tubes for use as catapaults or whatever they do with them....
Probably left there by a rottweiler.
Maybe Binners has a point... having flattened your tyres, they were intending on keeping you on Darwen Moor forever to help enlarge the local gene pool.
There is nowt as strange as folk. Which is particularly true in this area. Glad you weren't hurt.
His mouth mustn't have been puuurty enough
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Hi I'm a reporter on the Lancashire Telegraph.
I was wondering if PTR or anyone who has had similar experiences can ring me on 01254 298204 or email on catherine.pye@nqnw.co.uk so I can get a warning out to people about this?
Thanks
Catherine
what happens on the moor stays on the moor 😈
what happens on the moor stays on the moor
I'm pretty sure Cathy didn't agree to Heathcliffe paying the burial guys to loosen the nails and then climbing in her coffin to get jiggy with her cold body. Anyhow, the chapter ended there, leaving it on the moors.
Just as an update. Its big news! In this mornings [url= http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/archive/2012/04/17/Darwen+%28darwen%29/9653737.Darwen_Moor_users_asked_to_respect_the_area_after_mountain_bike__nail_trap__found/ ]Bolton News[/url] anyway
Looks like the comments page is set to degenerate into a walkers v cyclists handbag-fest. Only ever had grief off some mad-as-a-badger redsock once up there. They must be passive aggressive ramblers
PTR is 48!? Jebus! 😉
48?, that was so last week, it's 49 now....