Rant for the people who complain about messed up trails

spongtastic
spongtastic Posts: 2,651
edited February 2011 in The Crudcatcher
Went out at lunch time, found that all the local MX trails I'd been following all winter had been totalled by said MX riders and that quite a few new bits had appeared. After about 5 minutes I realised the lovely berms and hills had been replaced with huge rutted muddy holes.

Did I complain, did I just give up and go home?

No I just spent an hour and a half cycling through ferns and god knows what else. At one point I swear I jumped a ditch complete with a pro who's head had been turned backwards. My arms are scratched and there's a hole in the jacket I had strapped to my Lobo.

So stop whinging that you're having to ride your mountain bike on something that's not totally flat or man made, or that your hippy run cafe is being shut. If the Forestry Commission goes to a commercial forest you'll have to do a lot worse outside of the main trail centres.
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  • El Capitano
    El Capitano Posts: 6,400
    + Potato.

    I love heading out 'trekking' on the MTB. I'll normally have a map and a rough idea of where I'm going, but if I see a decent looking trail/route whilst I'm out, then I'll follow that and see where it takes me.
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  • BorisSpencer
    BorisSpencer Posts: 786
    I had to bite my tongue the other week when I found that some MXers had chewed up some of my favourite cheeky single track. They had ridden on it illegally, just like I have been for the last 3 or 4 years.

    Edit - When I say "I had to bite my tongue" what actually happened was I had a screaming hissy fit, but I should have bitten my tongue.
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  • fletch8928
    fletch8928 Posts: 756
    A couple of us took the kids for a play in some local woods where I rode a fair bit last year. Now alot of the trails are byways, but the bits through the trees where MXrs tend to go, look like they have kept away for a while. So the chewed up deep ruts were stick tested for depth and it looks like they are filling in. Hopefully when the water has gone there could be some ridable new bits through the trees. Not that we didnt ride them before, just now they look better.

    I dont like to rant about things like that but. A farmer has changed his feeding stations for the cows, he has put them by nearly every gate on a much ridden local loop(not many others use it) of mine. The result is 4-6inch of thick cow poo and mud mixture about 25yards from around the gates til I get to the grassed area. Firkin stinks.
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  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,593
    You know the people who really annoy me though. the people who tell me how to think and act :p You know don't rant at this get over it and so on jeese :P
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    spongtastic wrote:
    Went out at lunch time, found that all the local MX trails I'd been following all winter had been totalled by said MX riders and that quite a few new bits had appeared. After about 5 minutes I realised the lovely berms and hills had been replaced with huge rutted muddy holes.

    Did I complain, did I just give up and go home?.
    Why would a cyclist complain that an MX trail had been ripped up by MX riders? :?
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  • spongtastic
    spongtastic Posts: 2,651
    Daz555 wrote:
    spongtastic wrote:
    Went out at lunch time, found that all the local MX trails I'd been following all winter had been totalled by said MX riders and that quite a few new bits had appeared. After about 5 minutes I realised the lovely berms and hills had been replaced with huge rutted muddy holes.

    Did I complain, did I just give up and go home?.
    Why would a cyclist complain that an MX trail had been ripped up by MX riders? :?

    I didn't complain, I just got on with it which is the whole point. Unlike a lot of the 'Evil private landowner destroyed all my trails, whinge, whinge, moan, moan' threads that seem to be cropping up.
    Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.

    Who are you calling inbred?
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    spongtastic wrote:
    Daz555 wrote:
    spongtastic wrote:
    Went out at lunch time, found that all the local MX trails I'd been following all winter had been totalled by said MX riders and that quite a few new bits had appeared. After about 5 minutes I realised the lovely berms and hills had been replaced with huge rutted muddy holes.

    Did I complain, did I just give up and go home?.
    Why would a cyclist complain that an MX trail had been ripped up by MX riders? :?

    I didn't complain, I just got on with it which is the whole point. Unlike a lot of the 'Evil private landowner destroyed all my trails, whinge, whinge, moan, moan' threads that seem to be cropping up.
    That is what I meant - why would any cyclist be complaining that a MX trail was ripped up by MX riders? It is like complaining that a bus lane has buses on it.
    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.
  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,650
    I agree (+1000 moaning hippies)
  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    Follow the Dog at Cannock is churned up and not great to ride at the moment. I'll happily moan about that.
  • wordnumb
    wordnumb Posts: 847
    We have the same problem at my yacht club. Right annoying.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    wordnumb wrote:
    We have the same problem at my yacht club. Right annoying.

    I don't know if you re being sacrastic or jokey or not but i can fully understand this having visited several "yacht clubs" and DARED to walk into them wearing sailing gear rather than a collared shirt and tie...

    I mean who the flip would think that you would go to a yacht club to go sailing - beggars belief!!
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    When I was a kid my dad bought a yacht and mooring at a local yacht club. After calling the commodore a pretentious arrogant twat or similar he got thrown out of the club.
    Unfortunately for the club, the mooring came with rights of access to the club premises.
    For years afterwards he took great pleasure in watching them fume every time we went sailing and used the club facilities for nothing.
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  • wordnumb
    wordnumb Posts: 847
    ddraver wrote:
    wordnumb wrote:
    We have the same problem at my yacht club. Right annoying.

    I don't know if you re being sacrastic or jokey or not

    Yeah, humour based on the 'wrong sort of people' tone of this thread. If I had a yacht you can bet I wouldn't be loitering around on bike forums. I'd be far too busy selling a yacht and buying a bunch more bikes.

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