[Closed] Trials bikes on bridleways

Some folks are just so stupid entitled and inconsiderate covers it, for me...

What kind of bikes?

Mostly find the crossers in my local area (South Wiltshire) to be reasonably well behaved. Have not seen any at all since lockdown. As above, what you're seeing is ****s who have no regard for other people. Locally have more of an issue with 4WD, carving up the tracks when it's been stupidly wet over the winter. Ironically IME, this is actually an argument for opening up public access to RoW, so the load is spread over more trails.

Not seen any round here for a while, occasionally hear them but they seem to just use the BW to access their own illegal* trails in the woods. Tends to be pitbikes rather than full size ones.

Have seen an increace in 4x4s (on legal byways), not the "One wife, livid" brigade in jacked up discos, usually kids in sj's and rav4's. Presumably boredom.

The guys that illegally ride the area around Theal lake are out in even bigger numbers, sprinters and knackered transit parked allong the main road. Seems that as the sailing clubs closed there's even fewer people to tell them to f*** off. And this is about a mile from the police collage with a constant stream of police cars passing, seems neither the police nor the bikers actually GAS.

*no idea, may or may not be the landowners or have their permission, just some rutted trails in some woods.

yep, there are a few more round inner city bristol at the moment.

Saw a couple of ****ers razzing across this pedestrian footbridge the other day - they really need to make those barriers bigger! https://goo.gl/maps/1XQNNmJq6GpvLzV16

Do you mean trail bikes or trials bikes? Trials riders almost never wear full face helmets.

Do you mean trail bikes or trials bikes?

Motorcycle trials, presumably.

Loads round here for a number of years, looks like the same group, every Sunday out and back along our road and pavements, wheelies etc etc, overtakes. No plates as above. Had them race past on BWs around here too when cycling. Police can't do much when I asked, they had officers on MX bikes assaulted when they confronted a few years back and they're not allowed to chase given the risks. a problem across Notts I understand.

And this is about a mile from the police collage ...

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Do you mean trail bikes or trials bikes? Trials riders almost never wear full face helmets.

I do love a good bit of semantics on an illegal motorbike thread 🤣

OP, can you clarify whether they were trials or pit bikes or MX bikes, Enduro bikes (and were they running MX engines in enduro frames, or were they dual sports? Or something in between?), supercross bikes (you may have to stop them and ask for their suspension settings to clarify this one), midlife crisis adventure touring bikes or infact trials bikes. If trials bikes were they modern ones, twinshocks or pre-65? Because that sort of detail really matters 🤣

Do you mean trail bikes or trials bikes? Trials riders almost never wear full face helmets.

As usual here, the OP assigning the correct sub-category of off-road motorcycling discipline is the real issue here. 😂

Edit - as TINAS says above 😜

^^^

And this is about a mile from the police collage …

looks like a stick-up

Guy on a HT with a 2 stroke engine passed us on NCN at weekend, across from the airport. Cops sitting as he went past, never bothered their arses.

It was as loud as ****, no way they missed it.

Two passed me a week or so ago, really loud, no number plates and they were wearing shorts & t shirts, about 10 secs later a cop car came through chasing!

Sorry folks I clearly don't know one end of a motorbike from the other 🙂

Best way to describe them:

Engine
Chunky tyres deep tread etc
Full size (not monkey bikes)
Almost no exhaust judging by the noise
Massive amounts of suspension travel
Lots of fluro green and orange paint

looks like a stick-up

Textscrap book case of my inability to spell

A few days ago (mid-lockdown) I spotted some fresh motorbike tyre tracks* along the top of Burbage Edge. That's a footpath, never mind a bridleway. I thought that was a bit mental.

I definitely wasn't riding my bike there, of course.

* Sorry I can't ID the tyre tracks to know whether they were trials bike or Enduro bike (although it's very rocky up there so I'd have thought trials bike).

They are illegal off road bikes

Trials bikes and trail bikes are legal and have plates. Mx bikes are for closed circuit racetracks

These are just illegal at the best of times

I've been playing Warzone on the PS4 a bit lately. The RPG is quite good at taking out the quad bikes & other vehicles.

Should be pretty easy to legalise public use through statutory instrument.

A couple passed us on cycle route 6 in Nottinghamshire last weekend (no reg plates of course, or licence/insurance I’ll bet) - they went razzing off on a footpath. I think it’s pretty common in a lot of ex mining villages in Notts - razz about on the old slag heaps and railway line embankments, then they go off exploring.

Persistent problem around here, in some of the more out-of-the-way woods. They are annoying when they come past but the real issue is the total destruction of nice trails. ****ers.

Also because we live near a large area of shit estates they are often razzing around the little footpaths in the parkland, weaving in and out of parents and small children feeding ducks and stuff. ****ers even more.

We get that and quads around my part of Sussex. The damage they cause upsets landowners and locals, who then block paths & put up wire fences.

They're ****knuckles of the highest order.

They used to spill out of the scrotal estate near where I used to work - no plates, no lids, no road sense and almost certainly no insurance / MOT / driving licence / note from their mothers either. One once came at me on the wrong side of the road meaning I'd to slow right down to avoid him, them took this as an opportune moment to pop a wheelie. I wish I'd just driven through the little prick.

Persistent problem around here, in some of the more out-of-the-way woods. They are annoying when they come past but the real issue is the total destruction of nice trails. ****.

You've got more up your way as the ones that used to rag around in the woods near Rumney RFC have been turfed out by the locals all using it for their daily exercise. The track by Sims Metals is also out of bounds too, adding to the problem.

Derbyshire ex-mining area here, and yes they are fairly common on the local bridleways, cycle paths and converted slag heaps/country parks.

Derbyshire's finest have today posted about how they are tackling it more at the moment with their own off road bikes.

One of my favourite episodes of whichever version of Traffic Interceptor Cops on Camera involved a copper collaring a lad on a MX bike on the Sustrans path behind my lads secondary school. The officer handcuffed the lad to his motorbike and made him push it half a mile to the road access point for the van to take him away 👍

I caught a group of four mx-ers smashing a fence down on the way to Cragg Quarry. Managed to catch a good video of them before they scarpered on my Virb. Happened about a week ago. Definitely not an essential journey. They could have opened the gate, but obviously wanted a clear run on the way back.

Sent it through to Crimestoppers but they are a bit tied up with moving scrotes on in parks, so I'm not expecting much.

As the OP, no plates, faces covered so chances of anything coming of it are minimal. Which is why they do it, I suppose.

Boomer - they’re a *ing nightmare round here. They’re just so brazen. They don’t give a *! They’ve wrecked a lot of the trails over by Cragg, now they’ve started this side of the valley.

I was out walking the other day and about 8 of them came absolutely hooning down the main bridleway from Peel Tower, pulling wheelies and just being complete nobheads. There were people literally jumping out of the way and you could hear them all laughing their tits off as they came past. No plates on or anything

They’re not trail riders or trials riders, they’re just gangs of horrible little scrotes on stolen bikes.

The way they were riding the other day, if that carries on then someone’s going to get killed or seriously injured after being hit by one of them

Complete ****s!!

Pickaxe handle through the front wheel spokes usually impedes their forward progress...

Endemic in Rossendale, they have ruined Lee and Cragg quarries. Very aggressive to other trail users. Becoming more confident and running up and down main roads.

Police caught one at the weekend, they need to catch more. Many travel to the area as it's now know to be effectively unpoliced, locals are getting threatened. Everyone knows where they park up, sooner they take the vans off them the better. Some are even sponsored riders, the sponsor doesn't give a ****

I've been seeing more and more enduro motorbikes on the off piste at FoD since last autumn, even got followed down a very steep, narrow trail by a couple. We were amazed they made it!

Endemic in Rossendale, they have ruined Lee and Cragg quarries. Very aggressive to other trail users. Becoming more confident and running up and down main roads.

One of the Rossendale ‘bike life’ ****s bounced off the side of my van at a junction into a bus shelter a few years ago. What looked like a stolen bike - mate turned up pleading to get the bike away. My mrs had already rung police and ambulance.

End of story was no licence/MOT/insurance so loads of points and lost his HGV mechanic job, bike impounded but he got it back.

He then claimed £25k for his injuries - my insurer didn't contest it.

Moral of the story is **** it - join them the system encourages it.

Moral of the story is **** it – join them the system encourages it.

I genuinely don't know how they get away with it. I once (accidentally) drove without insurance for about 200 yards and got pulled over for it.