[Closed] Deliberately blocked trails

If it's a bridleway or a footpath, report it to the Council and they should remove it. You can also remove it yourself unless it's keeping livestock at bay.

Reported some stuff the ROW officers in Oxford. What was done? Precisely nothing...

The solution?

Move it, get on with the ride. People will do it for whatever reasons they think are valid. If I ever come across some-one doing it I'll let them know how I feel about it. Other than that, it's a sad fact of life that some mountain bikers will act in a way that makes others think that blocking the trails is a good solution.

I assume your riding.

If its a bridleway you should report it to the Police and Rights of Way people at your council.

If it's on private land and your riding without permission they can do what they like. Assuming it's not a right of way.

Bizarrely we have a reverse unblocker who keeps showing the trailhead to the horses and MX'ers. But he/she cant seem to walk anywhere without a line of sticks and branches leading them.

Probably planning a strolling guide book 😉

A couple of years back, I found broken bottles buried with sharp edges sticking up on a trail near here, and dug them out.

I asked around and one of the local neighbours had been trying to quietly expand his bit of land into the land the track is on, which is FC owned. Apparently he has been threatened with court action. Anyway I've not found any more evidence of nasty tricks since...

glass bottles aside

make a feature out of it, you know build up some earth around a tree accross the path and turn it into a jump

that should p!ss off the miserable ****ers

Had this round here with string/fishing line tied across the trail. Tossers.

What trail please CG?

I like kimbers solution, it is the solution taken when timber cutting left a tree across one in lennox forest, a large wooden up'n'over 🙂

Andy - down the side of Stonor Park. Link on [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/southern-riders-your-favourite-bluebell-wood-is ]this thread[/url]

This happens on trails in LW to some extent. Most of the time it's just another thing to bunnyhop over but it can catch you out.

A mate had a 'discussion' with one of the silly old biddies that was doing this and her main arguement was that we cyclists were ruining nature and destroying trails. She didn't respond well when my friend pointed out deliberately breaking or sawing down branches was far more harming to nature than a couple of fat blokes on mountain bikes.

I really worry about fishing wire that would seriously hurt.

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Ah crispedwheel know it very well and ride it often. Thats a bit silly if on the really steep bit as it falls away quite quickly and quite steeply!

Have also seen logs across the bridleway on the otherside of the road that drops from Maidensgrove through maidensgrove scrubs down to the road just before Assendon, but that trail is a bit more open and there is more time to react.

btw what are the conditions like at the moment? Much mud?

Nah, drying out nicely

Are the "loggers" driving in? If so log the car park 😈

take the chainsaw along and bag yourself some free firewood 🙂
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Last year in puddletown forest there were some cracking fast descents through the trees, and on some, people had deliberately placed branchs etc in the way. The people who do it dont realise how dangerous it could be for us to hit them at like 20mph +. Ironically these were places you would not expect the walkers etc as was deep in off the normal walking routes etc. Too many idiot walkers out there, but is most probably because there are too many idiot riders too that give them reason to do so!

The Leigh Woods stick man of several years ago used to very kindly put logs and branches across trails that were just the right size for some technical interest.

These people don't seem to realise that object avoidance is part of the fun of MTB'ing.