Half way up a decent climb, came across this, had to lift bikes over, then start again on the bastard hill.
No,it was a tree that had split in half, there's 3 or 4 of them around the place now, that one wasn't there last Friday, the forestry are usually pretty good at clearing them but the Mtb for the commonwealth games is there Wednesday and all the efforts and money are going into that. Lots of the tracks are crap atm, got a nice bramble Bush across the nose and mouth earlier on the ride too.
Can see it a bit more clearly now, was looking on my phone earlier and it looked like one of those makeshift barriers that some landowners put up to try and prevent access on their land, even when there are rights of way going across them
We've had a lot of experience of that sort of behaviour in Wales. Had one approach us once who told us we were trespassing, as he was standing next to a waymarker, ****ing plank.
I'm involved in a campaign down here around public rights of way. Basically came about because somebody tried to stop me cycling on a track, that turns out is nearly 5000 years old and has been used since Neolithic times, Oxen, Horses and Carts etc. Anyway, cut a long story short, the huge amount of red tape to cut through to get these paths officially recognised as restricted byways is a ****ing joke. But I am pursuing it because when I get my teeth into something and I know I'm right I can be bloody minded and determined. It's funny because I'm in dispute with a landowner about a particular track, that he has tried to claim is a footpath. Which to be fair, is marked as a footpath. But it has historic rights as a byway. I have tried to talk to him about a particular section of the countryside act that gives precedence to existing rights, but he's having none of it. So he'll have to have it the ****ing hard way then lol
Thanks mate. It's a bit dry and long winded, but it requires a DMMO (definitive map modification order). There's a ****in **** ton of paperwork, maps, historical evidence, witness testimony etc that needs submitting to the local council, who are snowed under with work as their resources have been cut bare, but like I say when I'm right about something, I'm like a ****ing dog with a bone and I won't give it up. Thankfully, organisations like the Ramblers, British Horse association and Cycling UK have agreed to help me out as they have a ton of experience in this field. It's crazy how many paths have been lost over the years because local councils aren't policing landowners, who just gobble up sections of rights of way on their land and claim them as their own.
We had an issue with a landowner in Powis, which is a big **** off county, anyway we needed to speak to an adviser on footpaths and right of ways, we were told the whole county only as 1 officer that could help us and he only works, 3 half days per week, Powis has mile upon mile of walking country.absolute ****ing joke.
I'm a bit of a militant cyclist lol. I'm not one of these ****s who rides all over the road getting in the way of cars, or somebody who tears up footpaths and scares horses etc. I will always yield to walkers and I'm polite as **** to anybody I meet when I'm out on the bike. But it is my firm belief that these historic rights of way should not be lost due to bureaucratic inaction, so I will cycle them and challenge anybody who tells me that I shouldn't be there.
