Former MP accused of mtb trail sabbotage

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As the title says, former Labour MP Ron Davies is accused of sabbotaging trails used by mountain bikers in Caerphilly:

https://dirtmountainbike.com/news/former-mp-ron-da...

May his balls turn square and fester at the corners.

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"Watching badgers"

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If you want to stop trail saboteurs and think you know who it is, there is a better way than direct confrontation. Approach suspect and say, "Just wondering if you can help? One of my friend's kids was hurt quite badly on his bike near here, someone had put some obstructions onto the trail he was riding. Have you seen anyone doing this, the police are asking for more information?"

What a lot of these oafs fail to consider is that many trails existed due to wild animals creating them and their clumsy and misguided efforts to 'stop bikes' could easily injure an innocent wild animal.

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hornetrider said:

Anyway, the devil is in the detail, I don't know exactly where the trails are built, but if it's where he said they were, then I tend to agree that they shouldn't be there.

There is a time and a place for certain types of trail. IMHO, one of the truly great, unalloyed joys of mtb is the pinned, flat-out (and at least slightly out of control) descent, with a few spicy extras - jumps, drops, roots, rocks - but, above all else, flow. It is absorbing to the point of being meditative.

However, I can and do understand that paths used by walkers are definitely not the place to experience this, or at least not at all times.

It is an emotive topic, but I've seen, first hand, the way trails are built without consideration, but also how perfectly remote and harmless (to other users of the open space) trails are repeatedly obstructed.

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Strava... TBF and this is just IME, the dicks on Strava probably do more damage, to more trails, by diluting the line and difficulty, in pursuit of their trinkets and baubles.