Idiots riding the wrong way around trails
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Splottboy wrote:Remember riding in Coed Y Brenin years back, and a Bus, Yes, a BUS came down a fireroad! Single decker luckily...
It was full of schoolgirls looking for a Netball tournament some where near Dolgellau.
Sounds like the plot for a porn film!! :shock:0 -
round my way its 4x4s at the bottom of jumps that are the brown trouser moments.0
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doombrain- no i wasn't there (obviously), think i get the context, always hope for a clear run (but dont always get one),
of course i've been pissed off at people when they have appeared in the middle of the trail when i've not expected (especially after a big climb!). i've just not threatened to batter the individual!
but, in the heat of the moment i suppose things can get.. well, heated ! and the old fight or flight can kick in (guessing it was fight in your case
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the lad probably had his mechanical, and just wanted to get back to riding asap (common sense to move aside it seems went out the window.
and i take your point about the guys reaction if he didn't seem bothered, didn't apologise etc then he does deserve a mouthful
gazif it ain't rainin.....it ain't trainin
Stick your 'rules' up your a%se0 -
never ridden a trail centre. By the sounds of the idiots who ride there I don't think I ever will either...Not really active0
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clever.
okay - never ridden on a pre-marked, pre-dug, pre-preared trail before. And most definatly not a trail centre...Not really active0 -
I find it very hard to believe you've never ridden on a man-made trail. Virtually every single trail I know of is man made in some way. Round here that's due to miners walking to work along specific routes day in, day out. There's usually one "best" way to get across a mountainside, and that's the way these guys took._Ferret_ wrote:clever.
okay - never ridden on a pre-marked, pre-dug, pre-preared trail before. And most definatly not a trail centre...
Other trails are created in similar ways, but are much older.
So, why don't you get off your high horse, eh? :roll:0 -
_Ferret_ wrote:never ridden a trail centre. By the sounds of the idiots who ride there I don't think I ever will either...
then you'll be missing out. i used to never want to ride trail centres and always wanted to ride 'proper' mountains. but i love centres now and i've never had any problems 0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:
I find it very hard to believe you've never ridden on a man-made trail. Virtually every single trail I know of is man made in some way. Round here that's due to miners walking to work along specific routes day in, day out. There's usually one "best" way to get across a mountainside, and that's the way these guys took._Ferret_ wrote:clever.
okay - never ridden on a pre-marked, pre-dug, pre-preared trail before. And most definatly not a trail centre...
Other trails are created in similar ways, but are much older.
So, why don't you get off your high horse, eh? :roll:
Ohh.. you like a bit of picking don't you.
You know I was refering to trails made specifically for biking. Doh...
I do confess I have ridden on Bike trails - but always DH runs. You don't usually get people going the other way round them.
Still, I stand by my original comment - if everyone is going to get confused and argue over who should ride what way then I'd rather stay away...Not really active0 -
That's the problem with making trails easily accessible, suddenly everyone's doing it and conflict ensues.
It doesn't just apply to trail centres, recently I was riding around Edale in the Peaks and that was as busy with bikers as most trail centre's I've been to. Coed LLandegla is still the single busiest place I've ever ridden.
There is a solution though... move to Scotland!0 -
You can't win really -make something great to ride and everyone and his dog comes to ride it. Unfortunatly that means too many people, you have to wait in sections and all of a sudden it's not that great to ride anymore.
I'm all for people getting into Mountain Biking but I have to be selfish and say I like to have a trail for me and not to have to share it with 500 other people...Not really active0 -
I think the cause of the "overcrowding" in lalndegla is that it's such an accesible trail, and it's so short. I'd estimate that Coed y Brenin has similar numbers of visitors, but since they have huge trails, you're far less bunched up, and less likely to come across other people. This of course is helped by the fact that they have seperate, distinct trails at Coedy, apart from a few sections.0
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CycloRos wrote:That's the problem with making trails easily accessible, suddenly everyone's doing it and conflict ensues.
Certainly easy to find, I wouldn't necessarily agree to easily accessible - If I want to ride a trail centre I have to drive at least half an hour to get to one (except Lee Quarry, but I don't count that anyway).
If I want easily accessible trails I open the back door and ride...0 -
You guys are lucky that it's only the odd single rider you catch riding the wrong way.
Last week I was riding a trail alone and there were dozens and dozens of them.You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.0
