[Closed] Sabotage

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Loads of rocks on my local trails as well. Hadn't considered that they might be the work of clandestine saboteurs. Sneaky of them to use leaves to cover them up as well.

Thanks for the heads-up. Ride safe.

Cheers
Jekyll

Hadn't noticed any but I only regularly ride the TPT and I can't imagine that being sabotaged down my way*

*famous last words.

I can't stand it 😀

Glass at Wild Park (DH lite), sometimes it's great big "C" shaped bottle sections, only really sticks/small logs at Stanmer.

Have you read this? ->

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ive-seen-a-few-logs-pulled-across-paths-but-this

😡

It amuses me quit a bit when stick mans been out as the sticks are often the pithiest bit of rooty, rocky trail I've ridden all day! Less funny when small barnacles are left at an angle that will do serious harm if you ride into them and nails on the jumps! Overall if I found someone doing it, id smack them one.

Main problem I've found recently is dastardly mother nature sneakily throwing entire trees down across trails. They really need to catch her at it and lock her away.

And yeah, photo in 2nd post was my immediate thought to the thread title 😀

You'd have been able to avoid that, if your crystal ball had been more crystal clear.

Increasing problem in herts, we clear as much as we can. I will start photographing and geotagging as evidence. It's deliberate and could cause real harm. Am waiting for fishing wire which was favoured a few years ago.

Northwind, nicely crowbared a Beastie Boy lyric in there.

Any lawyers on here who could give an opinion on deliberate dangerous trail blocking?

Contin trails up in strathpuffer land are routinely sabotaged with logs placed across the trails in the worst/most dangerous places. Had to move about 6 on the decent into the car park today

Unless the blocking has been done on a public byway etc, you'd have to catch them in the act or have evidence etc
As most of the trails round by me are just trails in the woods that have been made by walkers/deer/bikes and not local authority/land owners, liability would be the issue
As the log man operates in the woods where the logs are already, proving it beyond all reasonable doubt criminally would be hard.
Civily on the balance o probability would be easier, but you still gotta catch him.
So 'does the logman exist'?? Or are they of biking myth

Anybody have evidence?
Also probably the most sensible post I've ever done.....

What I like do do is leave convenient logs beside the trail for the saboteurs, but fill them with killer bees and C-Diff.