Mattyp
Cows go boing
And the good stuff is too far away to warrant using the lift.No DL, the lift will get you to more trails but they don't get you to the lift.
And the good stuff is too far away to warrant using the lift.No DL, the lift will get you to more trails but they don't get you to the lift.
Spicy. Wishing they could do those mankeys again. I missed out on one last time. I get lost alot.Updated trail map is now on the Red Hill Riders webbysite.
Good peeps at PV managing that area, they like their MTB there.Trails have been cleared & reopened thanks to a solid effort from the local PV division.
Wish they were the same out my way...Good peeps at PV managing that area, they like their MTB there.
Where's your way? I worked pretty extensively with PV Metro Melbourne (a pretty big area but doesn't include places like You Yangs) and the regional offices were all pretty pro MTB (and a lot of them ride too), but also had to contend with universal issues like eff all maintenance budgets, competing stakeholder priorities, and groups who scream mass murder if you even allude there might be a trail being considered that may have a bicycle near it. Was a challenging environment.Wish they were the same out my way...
OkProbably heading down for a spin on Tuesday if anyone is around.
A lot of my riding is in the Macedon Ranges, @Jpez and I had to avoid a ranger on a rampage last time we were there...Where's your way? I worked pretty extensively with PV Metro Melbourne (a pretty big area but doesn't include places like You Yangs) and the regional offices were all pretty pro MTB (and a lot of them ride too), but also had to contend with universal issues like eff all maintenance budgets, competing stakeholder priorities, and groups who scream mass murder if you even allude there might be a trail being considered that may have a bicycle near it. Was a challenging environment.
Oh okay, Macedon was outside of my scope, can't vouch for them. I know there were / are a lot of issues for staff out that way with the Grampians rock climbing debacle. What did the ranger have the shits on about?A lot of my riding is in the Macedon Ranges, @Jpez and I had to avoid a ranger on a rampage last time we were there...
You quoted a post of mine from 2015....
Wasn't always so; when I first got involved 10-ish years ago the main ranger was a classic by-the-book knobhead desk jockey who hated the idea of us having fun. Funny moment was when he came out on a ride with us... Wombat (the main blue descent in the middle of the park) had a fence thrown across it, so we had to take him down the Ball Bearings fire road, which in perfect timing was at its worst with loose gravel on the steep slope. He shat himself, and the fence was removed from Wombat the next day!Good peeps at PV managing that area, they like their MTB there.
Interesting that this line worked for you, we've been saying the same thing for years at lysty and getting roadblocked at every turnWasn't always so; when I first got involved 10-ish years ago the main ranger was a classic by-the-book knobhead desk jockey who hated the idea of us having fun. Funny moment was when he came out on a ride with us... Wombat (the main blue descent in the middle of the park) had a fence thrown across it, so we had to take him down the Ball Bearings fire road, which in perfect timing was at its worst with loose gravel on the steep slope. He shat himself, and the fence was removed from Wombat the next day!
Fortunately he got shunted aside within PV not too long after, and since then we've had much more supportive rangers, and yes, some of them do ride, which helps a lot. A real lightbulb moment for them, amid their perennial griping about being understaffed and underfunded preventing them doing trail stuff was when we told them we didn't need them to fund or even do any works, we just needed their permission.
A shop called Balnarring Cycles I heard.I spy with my little eye... a bike shop opening soon in the main street of Hastings