Honestly you've got to wonder what goes through the head of someone that sets a barbed wire trap right across a trackway. What do they honestly think they will achieve, apart from a stretch inside if they get caught by the police?
http://bikesy.co.uk/features/knowledge/barbed-wire-cyclist-trap-set-in-kent/
Fortunately Dan says the police have been in attendance (probably had to after James May retweeted it and all the newspapers had covered it). Just hope they catch whoever did it.
Bloody hell. The usual logs in the trail is bad enough, a trip wire is worse, but barbed wire?! Either the culprit has no idea of the possible consequence or has tried to maim and possibly kill a cyclist or other trial user. The mind boggles.
5 months ago one of our horses jumped through a barbed wire fence
Yesterday was a bit of a breakthrough, as she got to go back in the field for the first time...still not completely healed.
The wire opened up a ragged hole and cut down to the bone, just missing the knee joint and tendons.
Hate to think the damage that would be caused to a riders neck.
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Jesus that's bad when you see it like that.
dear oh dear the scrotes are at it again, this time in Wales
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-36196234
I was in wentwood forest sat afternoon on my fatbike. In one of the main carpus two lads were unloading scramblers from a van alongside dog walkers, runners and mtbers. No one batted an eyelid. Pretty much any bridle way i rode was ripped up by scramblers, the sound was such they must have been ripping it and there were loads of dog walkers and joggers etc using the trails.
I reported them to the police. Dunno if they did anything but made me feel better.
SOuth Wales Police tweeted that theyd confiscated a couple of motorbikes on the Little Garth mtn (local mtbs will know it as the climb that starts by the TyNant) - comes on the back of local residents complaining to police for a few months about footpaths/bridleways getting ripped up. Wentwood is Gwent Police not South Wales police, but you never know - especially if you got a number plate.
They are at it again, this time in Stretford. Watch out Manchester folk
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/stretford-dad-scarred-life-after-11616764
Good grief 😯
Lucky to be alive to tell the reporter!
Thats pretty f#&*ed up, seems to be increasing, there have been incidents down here recently too (brighton), theres always been stickmen but this is really depressing. The mindset is unfathomable to me, kill or maim a stranger!? Why? Makes no sense
That latest incident above has happened on trails that I ride at least a couple of times a week on my CX bike. The trails are all on busy bridleways used by families, dog walkers and horse riders alike and I've never seen or been any aware of any issues between them. I've been away for the last two weeks otherwise that could so easily have been me. Over the past few months I have been aware of an increasing number of strategically placed branches on some of the tight and twisty stuff that your average family riders in the area wouldn't be aware of but this latest act is totally reckless and the rider is lucky not to have been more seriously injured.
Thankfully we are only on the receiving end of a few 'stick men' around here so far. Nothing like as lethal as wire at head height. Hopefully someone will end up doing some porridge as a result of this sort of thing and made an example of. Just sick.
Looks like this bloke wasn't so lucky
https://nsmb.com/articles/riders-throat-sliced-barbed-wire-across-trail/
That would freak me out if it happened on a ride I was on. I thought Canada was supposed to be one of the more bike friendly sort of places?
