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Oh, well, fair play if he climbed up and retrieved itSurely it’s no worse than hanging bikes from trees and taking photos!
Toons...
Surely it’s no worse than hanging bikes from trees and taking photos!
If you can find somewhere that folk chuck bikes up trees, let me know - I can see a change of career coming up!
The fact that the guy wasn't the first, or the last just means there are more inconsiderate folk out there...
toons - Member
No need!I presume this chap wasn't the first to throw an inner tube into the tree and nor will he be the last.
Surely it’s no worse than hanging bikes from trees and taking photos!
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Agreed.
Think people are going way over the top and getting carried away with what every one else is saying, yes, he needs a telling off but you lot seem to want to burn him to a stake! He hasn't murdered anyone... 🙄
I dunno. I'd never have done it but if a mate had done similar when I was 18, I'd probably have pointed and laughed. With age, comes an increased appreciation of the little that's left of our wild spaces and I reckon that's why the vid has touched a nerve here in stw land. Most of us are pretty ancient...
Think people are going way over the top and getting carried away with what every one else is saying, yes, he needs a telling off[b] but you lot seem to want to burn him to a stake! [/b]
No.
Because you made that up, you see ?
Nobody really said anything like that did they ?
He hasn't murdered anyone...
And nobody said that either.
So that's ron70 and toons identified as two of the riders in the clip 😀
If you haven't already - head over to YT and tell him you think it's appalling behaviour.
Also - we have a clear mugshot so he's in line for a fine etc etc.
He is a bit light on his feet isn't he 😆
I hate littering really boils my wee.
BUT haven't we all done things in our yoof that we wouldn't do now?
Difference in my day was that there was no internet so you could get away with more!
Give them a break
I love free inner tubes -if that was a bit nearer me I'd be riding out there to see if they are still there. 😀
BUT haven't we all done things in our yoof that we wouldn't do now?
He's hardly a reprobate teenager!
I hate littering really boils my wee.BUT [s]haven't we all done things in our yoof that we wouldn't do now?[/s] the
Difference [s]in my day was that there was no internet so you could get away with more![/s] is I know them so I
Give them a break
FIFY
Some of the comments on youtube are worse than what this guy has done, dear me so people need to think before they post.
He is a bit light on his feet isn't he
Coffee, meet keyboard. Keyboard, meet coffee.
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Some of the comments on youtube are worse than what this guy has done
There are some comments on pretty much [b]every [/b]YouTube video that are worse than what he did.
But that's because YouTube comments are posted by brain donors.
Doesn't make it any less stupid to chuck stuff into trees.
nealglover - Member
Some of the comments on youtube are worse than what this guy has done
There are some comments on pretty much every YouTube video that are worse than what he did.[b]But that's because YouTube comments are posted by brain donors.[/b]
Doesn't make it any less stupid to chuck stuff into trees.
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You sound just as bad as them tbh 🙄
You sound just as bad as them tbh
Yeah 🙄
Just the same I'm sure.
(Just because I disagreed with you eh ?)
This thread is disappearing up its own arse.
STOP people. NOW.
If you can find somewhere that folk chuck bikes up trees, let me know - I can see a change of career coming up!
The old cafe at Coed y Brenin had a bike thrown quite high up a tree.
It was still there the last time I looked.
mark90 - Member
I don't know what makes me most cross, inner tubes in trees or filming in 'portrait'
I love this comment!! 😀
It's a trail centre and some lads having a bit of fun. I view trail centres as a bit of a cess pit anyway. Afterall, how much damage has been done just to create the trail to start with?
Innertubes in trees is a good symbol for the place really. I guess it reminds every one of the thousands who cycle through there, tearing up the forest, of the damage they've caused.
If it was out in the middle of nowhere, in a beautiful area, then fair enough, I'd be knarked.
But I dont think any of you lot with your over priced bikes shipped all the way from the other side of the world, and your powerful cars that spew poisonous gas that you spend hours sat in just to ride your bike, can really take the moral high ground.
^^Wow^^
Not sure if trolling or....
DT back on top form 8)
My biggest disappointment is that I, admittedly very naively, expect better from mountain bikers. I guess I always just assume that those who ride tend to have an environmental sympathy and generally don't think that it's cool to throw their unwanted junk into trees.
As a Gizzy regular, I would have loved to have seen him doing that... He certainly wouldn't have ridden another meter until that tube was back in his rucksac.
Clearly a very inexperienced rider - what sort of numpty punctures on Hully Gully???
Amen to that, Dave! This is exactly the rational behind my McDonalds littering at motorway services. If you think about the countryside that's been ripped apart be the motorway [i]and[/i] the service station...meh, a bit of paper and card pales in comparison!davidtaylforth - Member
Afterall, how much damage has been done just to create the trail to start with?...tearing up the forest, of the damage they've caused.
If it was out in the middle of nowhere, in a beautiful area, then fair enough, I'd be knarked.
But I dont think any of you lot with your over priced bikes shipped all the way from the other side of the world, and your powerful cars that spew poisonous gas that you spend hours sat in just to ride your bike, can really take the moral high ground.
Doesn't make it any less stupid to chuck stuff into trees.
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Amen to that, Dave! This is exactly the rational behind my McDonalds littering at motorway services. If you think about the countryside that's been ripped apart be the motorway and the service station...meh, a bit of paper and card pales in comparison!
That's just boneidleness. There's bins inside and outside MacDonalds. I suggest that next time you use them.
Now then pussyw., that's real trolling from DT. Something to aspire to. 8)
See how he writes it in a way that seems almost reasonable - but deep down you know that two wrongs don't make a right.
davidtaylforth - Member
"Amen to that, Dave! This is exactly the rational behind my McDonalds littering at motorway services. If you think about the countryside that's been ripped apart be the motorway and the service station...meh, a bit of paper and card pales in comparison!"[B]That's just boneidleness.[/B] There's bins inside and outside MacDonalds. I suggest that next time you use them.
Whereas not putting an old innertube into the bag you got the new one out of is..?
Anyone posted this to the Gisburn facebook page.
Whereas not putting an old innertube into the bag you got the new one out of is..?
I think you've been had by Mr Taylforth's subtleness.
Ill be nipping round to davidtaylforth at home and throwing some litter into the nearest tree to his polluting house, unless he lives in a bivi in the middle of nowhere of course.
We've seen pictures of Taylforth's house.. More litter might possibly improve it
Double standards on stw. Where was the outrage when people on here were releasing balloons in to the air??
Yes I will still keep going on about it, a balloon stuck in the tree is no worse than an inner tube. Both are disgusting
Agreed Houns, end result is similar, directness of action is slightly different though.
PW consider yourself schooled by Dave T. Master-troller.
Tubes-in-trees blokes need a kick up the chuff.
yunki - Member
We've seen pictures of Taylforth's house.. More litter might possibly improve it
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It seems like we're dividing into two camps here.
Those who think it's alright to act like a ****ing peasant and those who don't.
I know which camp I'd rather be in.
Disclaimer smiley: 😀
rode Afan over the weekend and was amazed at how much rubbish people throw away around the trails.
Empty water bottles, gel wrappers and so on.......you brought it with you, take it home!
After trawling through three gazillion overwrought posts I finally got it - tosser, tossing the tube. Very good, OP. Good job I'm not quite as slow on the bike.
Double standards on stw. Where was the outrage when people on here were releasing balloons in to the air??
Context.
Yes I will still keep going on about it
Fill your boots; pretty low though.
Riiiight so it's ok to litter as long as it's for a good cause/in someones memory
Gotcha 🙄
Riiiight so it's ok to litter as long as it's for a good cause/in someones memory
I think it's more that it's ok to disapprove of people releasing balloons in memory of a loved one (I'm guessing that's what you're on about here), but try not to be a sanctimonious arse about it.
Fill your boots; pretty low though.
Yes, but I think that's the intention.
No one reasonable would bring that up on this thread. Note use of the word 'reasonable'. The two are poles apart and if you can't see that then you are beyond help. If you can, you are trolling.
For me, this thread has run its course. If you want to act like a peasant and chuck rubbish around and think it's clever then you're a prat. Simple.
chakaping has it - plenty of us disapprove of releasing balloons even if its in memory of a loved one, but those of us mature enough to disapprove of such things also appreciate the insensitivity of commenting about it. If the chap in the vid in the OP was throwing his tube into the tree as a memorial, then clearly we've all been very insensitive.
Its not uncommon now to get Balloons for memorials that are made from Latex, which is biodegradable, But I still get your point.
STW would be a better place if the Mods gave a shite and stopped blatant trolling.
Anyway before I get into old man style rant I'm off to ride my bike. If I see a tube I'll be removing it.
I've scoured this thread for Edukator, for their isn't enough righteousness.
Maybe he's on holiday.
I think he's on an "enforced" holiday.
Thinking about it most of my totally shot inner tubes get reused as chain stay protectors, soft shims etc. I once used one to mend a boiler - kept it going for a few weeks until I could get it replaced.
That's a useful resource that lad's chucking away.
why why why, why do it? why film it? why spend time uploading it? such a waste of every ones life's!
You missed one:
why argue about it?
The video has now been removed by the user...
STW would be a better place if the Mods gave a shite and stopped blatant trolling.
We do and may have had a cull.
Hmmmm, I thought we were missing pussywillow's constructive contributions today.
Oh well, never mind.
The video has now been removed by the user...
Members on here then ? who I doubt will reveal themselves 😉
It could be the amount messages he'd get about people writing abusive comments.
We do and may have had a cull.
We lost a good man in that cull 🙁
Members on here then
probably not as its been liberally plastered over just about every facebook MTB group also.
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Members on here then ? who I doubt will reveal themselves
When you upload videos to the Tube you can track where the hits are coming from - it's likely that he saw a great spike over the last few days from STW! At least the evidence is now gone before the Daily Mail or similar could get their hands on it and tarnish us all with the same brush.
We lost a good man in that cull
Badger?
IGMC
He's been named on the Gisburn Forest MTB Trail Development facebook page if anyone is still interested! 🙂