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Bill Wheeler
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When will riders learn to ride responsibly?
I planned one of my early morning rides this past Thursday. I figure I better get the first one in
before Day Light Savings kicks in or out.
It's light enough for me to ride at 5:45 am. Since I've been in training mode its no problem for me
to get up early and put in a good morning work out.
I figure I'll take out the SS and leave the road bike gathering dust for a while. Did a quick
pre-ride check; Yep still got a chain, 1 rear sprocket and two wheels, I'm ret to go! Oh the joys of
simplicity!
I haven't been back on my local trails since the cold snap ended. Unfortunately after the cold snap
ended and the snow melted we got a **** load of rain. This makes riding Avalon pretty treacherous
and muddy (which is great fun at times don't get me wrong). My plan was to do a quick loop on the
Rockburn Branch trail and hit a few cross cuts while I'm at it. It started out very nice the trails
were soft but rideable with no mud for the couple miles. I start getting to the low areas of the
park and was glad to see the streams at a good level. I didn't notice a lot of fallen trees and was
having a pretty good, quite, peaceful, SS kind of ride....
I came upon part of the trail that is normally moist but still firm single track. I nearly **** when
I saw the destruction that had occurred. You could have driven two 4x4's side by side through what
used to be single track! WTF I shouted! How God damn dumb and blind does one need to be to cause
such damage!? Bike track after bike track wider and wider riders just kept widening the trail. It
looked like someone took a rotor tiller and tilled the forest floor for a good 200 hundred yard in
this particular spot.
GET OFF YOUR FVCKING BIKE AND WALK IT AROUND OR THROUGH THE MUD!
and that's what I did. I was so bent I didn't realize I was walking through ankle deep cold mud.
Hey, at least my bike was still clean.
Much of the rest of my ride was the same. Area after area fvcking ruined on the Rockburn
Branch trail.
Please if you ride these trails, ride responsibly. Keep single track single or soon all the dumb
asses will fvck it up for everyone.
Looks like I'll be riding McKeldin until June or July
Peace, Bill
The mind serves properly as a window glass rather than as a reflector, that is, the mind should give
an immediate view instead of an interpretation of the world.
:-]
I planned one of my early morning rides this past Thursday. I figure I better get the first one in
before Day Light Savings kicks in or out.
It's light enough for me to ride at 5:45 am. Since I've been in training mode its no problem for me
to get up early and put in a good morning work out.
I figure I'll take out the SS and leave the road bike gathering dust for a while. Did a quick
pre-ride check; Yep still got a chain, 1 rear sprocket and two wheels, I'm ret to go! Oh the joys of
simplicity!
I haven't been back on my local trails since the cold snap ended. Unfortunately after the cold snap
ended and the snow melted we got a **** load of rain. This makes riding Avalon pretty treacherous
and muddy (which is great fun at times don't get me wrong). My plan was to do a quick loop on the
Rockburn Branch trail and hit a few cross cuts while I'm at it. It started out very nice the trails
were soft but rideable with no mud for the couple miles. I start getting to the low areas of the
park and was glad to see the streams at a good level. I didn't notice a lot of fallen trees and was
having a pretty good, quite, peaceful, SS kind of ride....
I came upon part of the trail that is normally moist but still firm single track. I nearly **** when
I saw the destruction that had occurred. You could have driven two 4x4's side by side through what
used to be single track! WTF I shouted! How God damn dumb and blind does one need to be to cause
such damage!? Bike track after bike track wider and wider riders just kept widening the trail. It
looked like someone took a rotor tiller and tilled the forest floor for a good 200 hundred yard in
this particular spot.
GET OFF YOUR FVCKING BIKE AND WALK IT AROUND OR THROUGH THE MUD!
and that's what I did. I was so bent I didn't realize I was walking through ankle deep cold mud.
Hey, at least my bike was still clean.
Much of the rest of my ride was the same. Area after area fvcking ruined on the Rockburn
Branch trail.
Please if you ride these trails, ride responsibly. Keep single track single or soon all the dumb
asses will fvck it up for everyone.
Looks like I'll be riding McKeldin until June or July
Peace, Bill
The mind serves properly as a window glass rather than as a reflector, that is, the mind should give
an immediate view instead of an interpretation of the world.
:-]