I like someone's sig I read recently. "If no one could ride it, there wouldn't be a trail there. Just because you can't ride doesn't mean that someone can't." Or something to that effect.
"If it didn't hurt when you screw up, it wouldn't be half as exciting when you dont." cdburch
There is nothing wrong with having a bypass on technical features and planning them can avoid a lot of messes where people go all over, but yeah in this case it isn't really clear what the heck is going on.
One nice thing about trails in the Northeast is there usually plenty of deadfall lying around to drag over to block off and obscure braids. Much easier to work with than big rocks.
There is nothing wrong with having a bypass on technical features and planning them can avoid a lot of messes where people go all over, but yeah in this case it isn't really clear what the heck is going on.
I agree that it has become more necessary to put bypasses on tech features. Especially on popular trails. More and more recreational riders are out there and they don't have the skills to ride some of the more difficult features or knowledge of trail etiquette to not braid trails.
The rule (yes, I'm calling it a rule) is simple.
Stay on the trail.
If the trail has features you can't ride, walk it! Don't change it, don't ride off trail to go around it.
If you want to change a trail, join the trail crew and put in your 2 cents.
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One nice thing about trails in the Northeast is there usually plenty of deadfall lying around to drag over to block off and obscure braids. Much easier to work with than big rocks.
Yeahbut... two days later, the same (or other) gomers have then taken the time to un-block the braid.
I don't get it. It would take them more time to try and ride the existing trail a couple times/session it to get it down than it would to drag everything back out of the way of "their" trail.
Yeah I thought I saw that on jem. That 25 hour race wrecked the trail. Not too happy about that.
This explains a lot. It's amazing the little "short cuts" racers will take to save a few hundredths of a second.
We host an Enduro out here every year and there are fun twisty trails that now have new lines cutting accross some of the "S" turns. Love the race and most of the racers are not to blame.... but there's always a few that think their race result is more important than keeping trails as they are.
"If it didn't hurt when you screw up, it wouldn't be half as exciting when you dont." cdburch
well messing with a trail is one thing, but there's nothing wrong with having a "b!tch line"
sorry, i mean a B line. it's better than widening the existing trail to double track
This explains a lot. It's amazing the little "short cuts" racers will take to save a few hundredths of a second.
We host an Enduro out here every year and there are fun twisty trails that now have new lines cutting accross some of the "S" turns. Love the race and most of the racers are not to blame.... but there's always a few that think their race result is more important than keeping trails as they are.
I agree; whenever there's a race here in Bend (XC, Super D, it doesn't matter...), this happens.
By the way, that original photo does not look that difficult at all. Maybe it's just the angle, and that it's not a close-up.
If the trail has features you can't ride, walk it! Don't change it, don't ride off trail to go around it.
If you want to change a trail, join the trail crew and put in your 2 cents.
Yeah I did. And I had this nice rock jump I built over a log with a heavy slab of rock I had to drag...then someone took it out and threw it off a cliff... I would rather they had built a bypass (and it was easy too I mean I am not a tricksy rider just a nice smooth jump just over a foot high is all so you could roll off super slow and not endo)
People have actually altered stunts to be easier in our town, mind you these are already off the main lines. On a trail fully dedicated to FR this has also occurred.
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Originally Posted by Jeffbucc
(and it was easy too I mean I am not a tricksy rider just a nice smooth jump just over a foot high is all so you could roll off super slow and not endo)
