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Heathen woods - ampthill - no footpath riding for you then? he who is without sin.......
That's a totally false comparison. My complaint isn't about the legality of it - it's about the sustainability of it. I've seen too many tracks wrecked by MXers to have any time for any counter arguments because they're always feeble. They trash trails more than any other group and can **** off as far as i'm concerned.
I feel sorry for the offroad motorbike guys, they put in most of the trails around my way, and now we get to ride them and they don't. I accept that this is progress, but must be gutting !
hels - MemberI feel sorry for the offroad motorbike guys, they put in most of the trails around my way, and now we get to ride them and they don't.
So true. 😐
If only some of the narrow minded folks on here realised where a lot of MTB trails came from.
hels - Member
I feel sorry for the offroad motorbike guys, they put in most of the trails around my way, and now we get to ride them and they don't. I accept that this is progress, but must be gutting !
since the police clamped down on offroad riding round my way a good 30% of our local trails have completely overgrown and vanished! our countryside will still be looking after its self long after we have died out as a speices! so enjoy the countryside (your Own way) NOW cos we aint got long 😆
Get a Hayabusa? It's more fun, faster, plus you don't have to watch out for dog walkers. Everyone is happy.
Kids on overgrown mountain bikes.
If the Police really gave that much of a crap about it (or cheeky mtb riding which is strangely acceptable on this forum) they could easily park up at 1 of about 6 places on any given weekend and serve some kind of ticket on the offendees.
Like so many things in life, the only people these things seem to bother are those that can't do anything about it.
The police do turn out, the more information they have about where its taking place the more targeted they can be. I wouldn't advise taking numbers just report the event. Roych clough is actually legal but lockerbrook isnt.
Being both a pedal powered and engine powered off road enthusiast I understood both sides of the argument until one day I saw 5 or 6 "freeriders" giving a forestry commission employee a right load of abuse because they were about to go down a closed trail and were caught in the act, reason for closure, erosion by mountain bikes, then they decided to go down anyway after effing and blinding and calling him allsorts and giving him the rite to roam speach. W*****S!
Anyway some great trails for pedalling in and around the Cairngorms, and I live far enough out of the way that no one bothers us when we go out on the engine varity of two wheeled fun, no peddlers as there are no marked/constructed trails and plenty of permission from landowners, so if you are struggling to find somewhere to take your crosser/enduro bike PM me.
Cheers.