Worth noting the clear statement that the TRF are fighting for bikes and 4x4's to be treated seperatly.
They're not fighting "for us" they are fighting for their own rights and if that means we get f**ked over they're fine with it.
Gotta agree with a few posts above though, bikes need speed limiting, they have really aggressive tyres and do a lot of damage at high speeds and quick acceleration away.
We did note, when on the lane, that there were a couple of motorbike tyre tracks .. but a shed-load more and deeper mountain bike tracks! Most tracks, however, weren't causing damage at all, they were just tracks in the sandy areas!
Truth be told we all cause some damage, 4x4's anorl, and there are ****wits amongst 4x4 drivers as well as motorcycle riders ... I just suggest we stop being so divisive and fight together against the wan, sorry walkers, who
really want to stop us
all completely. In my experience it's actually tractors and their trailers or additional farm/logging machinery that cause most damage to tracks, but they need to use them in ways that we don't.
To constantly harp on about whether one group or another causes more or less damage seems to me to be hypocritical .. if 4x4's caused NO damage we wouldn't be in this situaton, or we might be able to reasonably moan at others ..
NOT saying any individuals cause damage, just some 4x4 users ... same as it's only some bike riders, or walkers ...
Mind, I also think that most walkers simply don't want to share space with any vehicles on any lanes, totally selfish and insular, and that's the real problem, not which vehicle causes most damage ... which is an argument that can, has and probably always will, go round in circles tieing us up in petty argument between motorised vehicle owners rather than actually and actively working together and fighting our corner with bobbles and ROWO's etc.
