"Free money this way" and a arrow that has to work
"New Trail Section This Way" and repeat it a few times up the trail so they go that far they wont turn back and ride the stuff they are not supposed to.
Tuesday night!! Might get me wheelbarrow out!
I like the barbed wire on the ground idea.
Lay it thick and have a sign "Puncture experiment track. Test your tyre's puncture resistance"
That won't stop the dickheads riding it, but with the extra money made from selling new tubes and tyres, you'll feel a lot better about it.
LOL at Jordie's idea. 5:30 at the shop for wheelbarrow action or I'll leave a map on the club notice board to location of works party for latecomers.
[i]Hey Hobo, all this trail work is just for you my friend; so that you can come here and ride without complaining quite so much about the roots and muddy bits .[/i]
You will note that I havent said that for a while. The reason is that i managed to get a mate to take me around on a few night rides. I ate my hat tbh. One of the best night ride (Man made of course) trails i had ridden. Great fun riding such an unpredictable trail in the dark.
Credit where its due.
Still think the waymarking could do with improving, but the riding was great
The original post was in jest btw. Bikers are very selfish (Inc me), i agree with your rant
NLP
"99.9 % of riders are following the closed trail restrictions, are you?"
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New waymarking will be happening this year!!!! Don't expect gert great dayglo posts but definetely a bit more visible. Again all funded by the £5 facilty charge at the gate... New maps too and hopefully an info board at the trail head WOW !!!! Not holding my breath, I've been waiting 4 years for the maps but it's all gonna happen this year...
All you need is a picture of a red traffic light at the start.
Cyclists don't ever ignore red traffic lights.
Are there signs before entry to the car park indicating these closures and diversions? I wonder if some folk are just thinking "Sod it. I've paid £5 to ride here and I bluddy will".
Banging On
I,ve stuck this on our The Trailbuilders Arms group on Facebook.
Feel free to post your dig days and other stuff on there
Jason
SingletrAction
http://www.singletraction.co.uk/
Putting a duration on a diversion is a nice idea but it seems awfully hard to estimate durations effectively. At least the ones at Glentress tend to underestimate how long they'll be around for - the unpredictability of the weather makes it pretty hard. Keeping a diversion up once the date on the diversion's sign has passed would probably outweigh the benefit of putting an end date up in the first place.
A few rows of bramble bushes strewn across the trail head should do the trick, with a warning of punctures and damaged clothing. Sign saying please follow diversions due to excessive bramble overgrowth and trail repair.
Druidh - the trail closures only make up a very small proportion or the trail network so it shouldn't put folk off coming and paying their fivers.
I usually recomend a lap and a half any way if you found the trail shortish and have energy left. Theres a bail out after about 8miles of red/black which give a sweet techy second lap as used for the SSUK08. Most folks find that they enjoy the trail better the second time round as they get more into the flow of the place.
The red diversion takes out less than .5k singletrack and the black climb to cutfinish misses a gert big climb but the short lap catches most of missed trail but from a different direction :|.
I suppose we could estimate long and then please people by bringing it back into play early 🙂
[b]Due to a selfish minority continuing to use the trails when closed.
Punture deterents are present on this trail until it re-opens.[/b]
The just place some well hidden carpet gripper rod at 5m intervals.
