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For all those riding near and around the beast any time soon. I passed through this morning and was all clear. But returning through the same area about 5 hours later, found that some GRADE A F##K WIT!! had pulled logs and branches across bridleways everywhere, built dry stone walls IN the exits of corners! and worst of all, A F##KING WIRE STRUNG AT HEAD HIGHT BETWEEN AN OPEN GATE !!!! I took that one down, but can't say if there's any more in the area, Watch out!
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Really? Did you report it? Any pics?
which gate?
Call the fuzz
Oh joy.
Report to PPA Access Officer and the Plod
I've posted this on the Edale mountain rescue facebook page
I've said it before. I would love to catch someone in the act of doing this.
Shocking.
I'll tell nbt (Peak imba rep.)when he gets back from night ride.
...........do you mean IF he gets back from night ride!! Really really worrying. We had something similar in Cranham (do a search) last year. Touch wood everyone escapes like you.
W*****s,i am up that way tomorrow.I'll keep my eyes peeled.
Best put some sidecutters in my camelbak :0(.
I've been at the recieving end before on my mx bike,its not good.
where is the Beast?
my Dad is a volunteer ranger round the Peak and might be interested in this.
grid reference would be good.
Steve peat posted it on his facebook page, thats got to be some decent publicity right there
From Hope,straight on at Hope Cross,then turn R at next cross roads.
About 1/2 a mile down the hill towards the bottom fire road at the source of Ladybower.
thanks lard
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he's going to follow it up tomorrow.
This sort of thing infuriates me! We have unts doing the same on our local trails all the time, and our guide in Les Arcs last year sliced his neck on some electric fence while which was tied accross a trail and he now has a massive scar! Isn't the trail in question an official bike route?
Isn't this attempted murder?! What else is a wire at neck height meant to achieve?
What happens if these people are caught?
All the contacts & publicity is great but the police have to take it be told. If they don't take it seriously, it needs to be escalated until it is. You were lucky, but next time?
was the wire something that came from a nearby fence if not then i'd pint this out to police as if someone took wire with them then it would be a planned act rather than just some one losing their rag
Will said traps make the Beast actually gnarly now? 😀
Hora, we all know you walk down it as it is 😛
Walk? I SKIP - gnarly fast n fancy
You say skip, we say mince
jesus thats a bit worrying - why on earth though, isnt the 'beast' a bridleway anyways?
Just because it's a bridleway doesn't mean that some people aren't selfish vandals who hate sharing the countryside.
Devils advocate- maybe a walker(s) had a close shave with some mtb'ers or MX riders and decided to 'get even'?
Even if they were knocked over wire at head height is slightly more than "getting even"
Devils advocate- maybe a walker(s) had a close shave with some mtb'ers or MX riders and decided to 'get even'?
🙄 yeah, a car cut me up on my ride into work, so I've cut all the brake lines on all the vehicles in our car park. That'll learn them. Nothing justifys putting wire across a trail, no matter how hard you try and troll.
Fantastic anecdote. I'm not saying justifiable I'm saying motive.
Still trying.....
Theres no excuse for that kind of action Hora. In my experience it would probably be a rambler though. Some of them get very territorial and aggressive even towards 1.5t of Landrover. 🙂
This is the unhinged thing isn't it. Why do people generally do unhinged things? Answer: because they're basically unhinged. Why did Harold Shipman murder all those old biddies? People spend ages trying to think of a rational explanation, but fundamentally he was crackers. There is no sane reason to murder lots of elderly women.
Whoever did this was most likely quietly nuts in their own way. Or, more charitably, too stupid to comprehend the potential consequences of their actions. Trying to explain their actions in terms of rationality is a waste of time ime.
Got to agree with the Dog here, seem these around the Chilterns and trying to work out why your form of enjoying the country side so upsets someone else so much that they set traps that include neck high wire is like trying to argue with a daffodil, report to the cops.
I've found a couple of planks if wood burried in mud and soul with 9" nails sticking upwards between Grizedale and Hawkshead, supposedly to give punctures. Annoying as it is, and my mate ripped open a brand new tyre, it's also somewhere I run and I shudder at the thought of two 9" nails through a foot... Verging on permanent injury I'd say.
Someone did this years ago in the Forest Of Dean they made a mantrap dug a hole then covered it up with branches and leaves and mud.Mate came ripping down there and fell in hole split all is chin open loads of stitches.Now the same area is full of cyclist no hassle.So that nutter has disappeared thank goodness.
I'd like to write this up for the Ride Sheffield site
OP - can you email me (address in profile) as I'd like to chat more.
Anyone else witnessed this, again - please get in touch.
Cheers!
Si
Simon could you put up a small notice somewhere in the shop?
^^ or a large notice, in the window, visible to non bikers too, it affects all countryside users as much be bike horse or foot
It's just not acceptable is it. I think more needs to be made of this around the Peak, let other users know what's going on and that they could kill people by being so bloody short-sighted. Print off some fag-packet-shock-photo style posters and spread them around?
yep - exactly what I'm thinking, but wanting some further info/reports first.
Can't the Edale MRT / similar put up (made up) notices about a fatality. It would, at least, cause some serious soul-searching on the part of the trap-setter?
We have someone doing the big logs thing in our local woods, and the even sadder thing is 99.9% of the bikers in their are young kids.