Footpaths...

[Pickle]

just to point out the area i live has lots of open countryside and not a lot of people. it isnt a tourist spot particularly either. i can ride for 2 hours and not see a single walker sometimes.

if i lived in the peaks or new forest i'd probably have a different outlook

X2

If I had Sherwood Pines, Thetford Forest, Cannock Chase etc etc on my doorstep then I'd not need to ride my local footpaths.

But I dont.

So, in order to get my fill of MTBing I need to ride on the footpaths.

And as Dave says, I can do my local 3 hr loop 364 days of the year and never see a single walker, horse rider or dog.

 

[MikeD]

Pickle's post is pretty comprehensive. I would add, though, that the only "damages" that a landowner could sue for (and he'd have to know your name and address to even get that far) are exactly that - compensation for any damage you have caused to his property. Which really isn't going to amount to much. Unless you wreck a grouse shoot or something

Classification of UK rights of way is almost completely arbitrary. Choose trails with care, be courteous.

 

[Andy R]

just to point out the area i live has lots of open countryside and not a lot of people. it isnt a tourist spot particularly either. i can ride for 2 hours and not see a single walker sometimes.

Same here - I can be out on the open hills and in the plantations, see no-one in a whole afternoon's riding, ride pretty much anywhere that I like and never get any aggravation from anyone.

And the best bit is that it all starts less than a mile from my door - some of you guys don't know what you're missing.
You should get yourselves over here for a week.....

 

[IDB1]

I couldn't possibly visit, Andy... the temptation to not return could be (too) hard to resist.

A lot of our current footpaths would be dangerous on a bike, the tractor/4x4 damage and ridiculous way the farmer tries to 'repair' them make the injury risk way too high (even walking)..

 

[velomaniac]

Across the pond might be great to ride footpaths but so is up here in Scotland.

I often dont appreciate Scotlands outdoor access until i hear had bad it is for our English comrades.

 

[mattbrown]

just to point out the area i live has lots of open countryside and not a lot of people. it isnt a tourist spot particularly either. i can ride for 2 hours and not see a single walker sometimes.

Same here - I can be out on the open hills and in the plantations, see no-one in a whole afternoon's riding, ride pretty much anywhere that I like and never get any aggravation from anyone.

And the best bit is that it all starts less than a mile from my door - some of you guys don't know what you're missing.
You should get yourselves over here for a week.....

when ever i hear "isle of man", i think of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX8Dg4nW7lU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK0lUPsZvXA

 

[dyna-ti]

Across the pond might be great to ride footpaths but so is up here in Scotland.

I often dont appreciate Scotlands outdoor access until i hear had bad it is for our English comrades.

Thats it Velo ,Rub salt in the wound

 

[cchris2lou]

I ride on footpath all the time , just avoid busy times .

 

[suburbanreuben]

No problem here. The North Downs are riddled with bridleways all leading to, and through, thousands of acres of quick drying heathland.

 

[Andy R]

I couldn't possibly visit, Andy... the temptation to not return could be (too) hard to resiist.

We'd let you stay, yessir