Atrocious conditions. To ride or not.

[glennMember]

Jeffro wrote:

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Weather conditions aside, 600 plus riders for 1 weekend on a set loop or loops is just raping the trails for financial gain. I have no problem with organised rides be they for free or paid for, but the people in charge must be accountable for the damage they cause when financial benefit is involved. Just like any companies are expected to repair the damage done or pay for the costs, so too should the organisers of this event as profit is involved.

I could not agree more fellow narny ride you hit the nail on the head and straight to the point well done..
i say have the rides just keep the numbers under control,

[alanMember]

when its real wet in dubbo i just ride the sandy tracks for two reasons 1 there more fun in the wet 2 it does not seem to damage them .just seem to trash the other soil typs in the wet .but we ride more when its wet heaps more fun no dust does not rain much anyway .rode sunny corner trail bike rally once did not like it to much road riding and to many bikes pass on rallys.i like a few bikes to go on our tracks the populations not as big here so you can still find the tracks they get overgrown quick.

[GregMember]

I have been sitting here thinking what to write to go with these pictures from the Watagans trail ride on the weekend and got only this, hope you all had a good time and thanks

Good pace on the trails

A good hill for a wet ride, how do the organisers rehabilate that area

Really only paid $125 for this, what a bargain

TB

[Dwayne OMember]

And ya forgot that ONE lucky dude went home with a free Yamaha:P

I`m glad I Stayed Home

[GregMember]

EAGLE`02 wrote:

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And ya forgot that ONE lucky dude went home with a free Yamaha:P

I`m glad I Stayed Home

Free Yamaha wont give us back our self mismanaged ride areas will it, but guess it gives another person somewhere to illegally ride when it gets to that

Thats me done on the subject I would rather be positive

TB

[Bruce CurtisMember]

I hate these sorts of events anyway, never been on one, never will I’ve seen the sour taste it has left in the mouths of locals up here, everything from the intial “smhoozing” on how good it will be for local economy to the destruction the forest officers have to explain away to the EPA or Land management authorties (yes they have to answer to them as well). meanwhile the organisers for the ones up here brings all his own supplies in and charges like wounded bullock to the hundreds that turn up, then pisses until he sneaks back in the year after. No local advertising just in the bigger populated centres then POW. And afterwards a certain percentage of numbnuts come back and start riding the private properties the scalper has begrudgingly paid the farmers to use during the official ride, and voilia bad blood and the pollies and media is involved. meanwhile the organiser of these genuine trailriding farces is a few towns away conducting the next one doing the circuit until the area is ripe for reraping for profit by him and his merry band of non-indigenous pillagers.

Not a big fan of it

BC

[glennMember]

excuse the french but they have literally f#@ked that area for recreational riding for god knows how f#@king long,,why are these bullsh!t money making rides allowed to go ahead, doesnt some CLOWN down there in the organization party have a f#@king brain…

my 3 bob worth,:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

[Anonymous]

ENVIRONMENTAL RAPISTS – Not so much the people that shelled out 125 big ones to ride the slop but the theiving promotors – Good way to garentee the closure of the Watties and stuff their future income.

And yes I will say again how much I dislike one of the promotors.

For shame the promoters of this ride – bet their not up there cleaning up that mess.

End of rant.

[Dwayne OMember]

R.C would be already prepping for the next event & rubbing his hands together I reckon.
Just added to last years carnage, that hadn`t recovered:angry:

Forestry have to shoulder some of the blame too, for letting it go ahead.
I do feel sorry for the out of towners that have forked out $$$, been suckered into what is portrayed as a “must do event”,,, and have to ride in that slop:huh:

There was a lot of discussion on other forums leading up to the event & a lot of locals were attempting to persuade the masses to stay away, for the sake of future access, but it looks like it didn`t have much of an impact, UNFORTUNATELY:(

END OF MY RANT TOO

[Peter WMember]

I can’t believe that they can hold that event and claim they are promoting sustainable dirt bike riding in the Watagans.How hypocritical is that!

[glennMember]

Hey look mum
and I`m only the 358th bike through,

[GregMember]

EAGLE`02 wrote:

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Forestry have to shoulder some of the blame too, for letting it go ahead.

Forestry have given up Beagle as I have tried to explain to people, they have tried to rehabilitate areas by putting mesh and netting down in areas to stop it washing away and people keep riding the same tracks. Now they dont have any money and are fighting a losing battle, so they now log it, get the money and rather then regenerate growth the sell it to national parks, they rehabilitate it and say piss of everybody. If its such a big area why does nearly every ride report have the same hills and areas in it? I know this from taking the time and stopping to talk with rangers, both Forrest and NPWS
Sadly it would take us all to stand together as a group but we wont its not the Aussie way
Now thats really the end of my rant

[dennis da menaceMember]

Boony wrote:

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Hey look mum
and I`m only the 358th bike through,

go the yammy……

wouldnt get an NX through that pooh:P

[Anonymous]

This is interesting because sometimes I think that we are (I know I am) actually quite hypocritical. Even though conditions on the weekend up the Watagans were really crappy, it was our anniversary and nothing was going to stop me going out riding (not even the hangover from the night before). I had the nerve to criticise all the riders up there for all the damage they were doing and then what did I do? I still rode up there but on tracks that were way away from where they were. :blink:

I told myself that it was OK because I wasn’t riding in an area that was getting completely trashed but what did I find myself doing? Riding up on banks where there was established bush just to avoid the mud i.e. doing damage. And that’s not even just relating to last weekend. How many times in normal conditions do we do this?

Unbelievably hypocritical I say. At least I know it.

Unfortunately I can’t see myself changing though

[alanMember]

just an observation of mine don t think it matters what we do in the bush if we reack a track we are only trashing it on ourselvse no one else uses it.if the govt wants to turn it into a national park they will they all do deals with the greens labour or liberal to get things through parliment.i think putting photos of the damage on here only makes it worse for us .the greenys rarly enter into the bush but have computers.note i dont like trashing tracks and am a closet greeny myself

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