Santa Pod Lanes

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Well just to add my two penn'orth!

I have never met a horse rider who compained about my 4 x 4. Most are respectful to us as we are to them and thank us for switching off our engines while they pass. There was one exceptioni... an old lady on a riding lesson who came across us three times in the same day and her horse was spooked by the rope on the front of one of the rangy boys motors!

The lanes are there for us all to enjoy and doing our best for the horse riders helps us out a lot.

Of course the ramblers are something else entirely. Most are OK but if you meet some that are part of the ramblers association... treat them like lepers. They are, after all, no better than Goering who issued orders that all those who opposed the third reich should be eliminated.

I have said it before and I shall say it again... there is a reason why the RA will not allow any member to post a message before it is vetted by their mods. They Know than so few people agree with their ethos that they can not afford an open debate or an open forum.
 
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You don't see any RA members posting on here to register their opposition do you? And this is one forum that would let them!
 
Shred one under your tyres for around 30 seconds, pour on some hot engine oil the finish off in a pan on your engine.
 
Drove the Santa Pod lanes yesterday. They're been very busy, awful lot of repairs have been done, lots of the rutted sections have been filled in.
 
Disco Moneypit said:
Like I've said many times before, if I want to get stuck / muddy, then I'll go to a Pay & Play site. If I want to enjoy a nice quiet drive, enjoying the countryside, then I'll go laning, (and usually by myself or one or two others).

It's a reasonably affulant and rural area where I grew up and where I now find myself living again, so plenty of posh totty who are into their horses, many of whom I have known since childhood, (and my wife is mates with a lot of them).

There aint a single one of them who would even consider for one second not using a lane on horseback if that lane was already in poor condition or muddy and flooded.

I also do a lot of cycling, so I see the damage to bridleways as well as unpaved roads. And round here a lot of the earth is very clayey, which only makes matters worse.

Those on here who 'off road' in cars as well as horses may well be a lot more considerate than those who just ride horses. Maybe folk in other parts of the country are a lot more considerate too. But in my experiance, horses do just as much damage to muddy and flooded lanes as vehicles do.

Basicly, my long winded point is that if a lane is going to be closed to motor vehicles then I think that it should be closed to horse riders as well.
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I wrote [& phoned Zaria Beynon ....did anyone else?... mentioned we were discriminated against re:horses Ok, 4x4 pariahs. also stated lanes shut for 6 months of year, now you say each time it rains[ which it frequently does in England!] you will send out a team of our employees @ our expense to lock all those gates for a month @ atime?
 
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