Growing hostility towards Mountainbikers and Cyclists

[M-Power]

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Typical piece by an attention seeking has-been pseudo intellectual.

Pseudo intellectual? There's nothing intellectual, pseudo or otherwise, about Janet Street-Porter, and there never has been. She was a joke in the '70s, and still is, 40 years on.

Never been a fan of the fugly thang either but she was an Editor of the Inde on Sunday, despite being a college drop out.

 

[M-Power]

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:shock: https://www.facebook.com/singletracksmt ... 4610632599

Seems the campaign to sabotage bikes, maim or possibly kill a rider is intensifying.

 

[tufty]

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Don't mean to be snarky, but would it hve been too hard to post a direct link to the singletracks article rather than a screenshot of farcebook?

That's bloody horrible, though. What sort of wanker goes out of their way to deliberately do something as dangerous as that?

 

[M-Power]

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Don't mean to be snarky, but would it hve been too hard to post a direct link to the singletracks article rather than a screenshot of farcebook?

That's bloody horrible, though. What sort of wanker goes out of their way to deliberately do something as dangerous as that?

It's not just this, I notice that dog walkers get their dogs to purposefully cr@p right in the middle of tyre marked trails even in Herts.

 

[legrandefromage]

The spikes are in the USA where there is some sort of militant version of the Ramblers Arseotiation.

 

[M-Power]

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Another militant group :facepalm:

I recently stopped on a trail to let an 'older couple' walk by. They seemed genuinely surprised I did this, then launched into a diatribe about how bikers were so rude these days. I was even politer than normal to counter this. Just made me think about the 'terminator look' of modern riders and the speeds capable nowadays.

 

[tufty]

Not militant, moronic. If you want to stop bikers using a shared trail originally created by bikers, what better way than to install big pokey-up nails that are going to stab walkers in the foot?

They've obviously never stepped on a drawing pin, let alone a big rusty nail.

 

[Silvergoat]

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I blame the Romans – they started it. In their defensive perimeter earth works, they half buried metal spikes in the ground with no-return barbs to slow down anyone advancing on them.

Anyway, if this nail spiking trail sabotage incident is true, what on Earth is up in people's minds when they think that this sort of knowing action is the right thing to do? It could maim anyone or thing.

I occasionally catch sight of my partner's Facebook – she's been doing her family tree and has discovered a cousin in the US who turns out to be a right rabid redneck – the exact polar opposite to my missus. The cousin is always posting memes and thoughts on not enough guns being used, lack of religion, other people's sexuality is wrong, abortion is the Devil, people who aren't patriotic are evil, and bikers childish and who should grow up and not be allowed to ride.

 

[mattr]

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Seems the campaign to sabotage bikes, maim or possibly kill a rider is intensifying.

:? This has been going on since i was riding with the roughstuff fellowship in the mid 80's. It's not new. It's on going. We even had barbed wire strung across the trail when i was in the first or second year at uni (Round the back of Mirfield somewhere IIRC) good job the first man through was a 12 year old who then stopped the rest of us after it skated over the top of his helmet. That was in 92 or 93.

I think it just gets far more coverage now thanks to the internet.

 

[M-Power]

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Seems the campaign to sabotage bikes, maim or possibly kill a rider is intensifying.

:? This has been going on since i was riding with the roughstuff fellowship in the mid 80's. It's not new. It's on going. We even had barbed wire strung across the trail when i was in the first or second year at uni (Round the back of Mirfield somewhere IIRC) good job the first man through was a 12 year old who then stopped the rest of us after it skated over the top of his helmet. That was in 92 or 93.

I think it just gets far more coverage now thanks to the internet.

Maybe true but social media allows ideas like this to propagate faster and more widespread coordinated action against us. These people need to be caught quickly and made an example of IMO. My 6yr old falls off in ruts or when she hits something unexpected, don't want to imagine how I would feel if she encountered something like this. 20yrs of bending over to pick up the soap in prison showers should do it.