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£300K refurbishment of this Byway and this is what you get:
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After today, I doubt whether I will ride it again. It's the Ridgeway track on the edge of Salisbury Plain.
Complete and utter waste of money and can only assume that Captain Mainwaring was in charge!
Get the 4x4s down there, it'll pack down.
is that not the East Coast Mainline? 😯
Railway ballast,horrible stuff to ride on!
Well, I reckon the 4x4's are avoiding it although I did see a couple of cars driving along it. 😯
Met a quad bikerist and he wasn't happy either! I felt totally beaten up and my hardtail is normally pretty good at absorbing the bumps. Good job I was wearing glasses as well but pleased that the painted bike was left at home. Would have needed a respray following the flying stones.
Surely they're putting something on top of that?
drains well
Well, the eastern side was interesting when I rode it a couple of weeks ago. Some of the stones had compacted but where there was some sort of soil, it was like quicksand. 😯
Also it was all cambered and the edges had not been finished off, just piles of stones built up randomly.
Completely different to what was there before, all they needed to do was a proper job of filling in the potholes. We're talking around 6 miles of this!
This track is well used by 4x4's, mx'ers, horse riders, cyclists, runners, walkers and dog walkers. It is also part of a waymarked recreational trail. I believe only Army Landy's use it, no tanks.
Nice. They've done this at Rutland Water in places. We use it for mid-week fitness rides.
One section is very slightly uphill & the gravel surface feels like quick sand. It's so hard to pedal against compared to the harder packed bits and you have very little front wheel control as it just skates all over the place.
timc - Member
drains well
Until it fills up with fines, then it retains water like nothing else on earth - and that's crappy, dusty, recycled ballast