Well put. In fact these are (IMO) largely separate issues. There is a real lack of direction in this thread, it feels like a badly run meeting. Ignoring brands for now, all that matters is that the trails will need to be maintained and if we are clever about it, have more built. I would happily contribute both my time (I live in stellenbosch and ride at JH often) and money to trail building, but will certainly not do it for some haphazard group that, for all I know, could fall apart tomorrow. That said I appreciate what appears to have been a lot of time and money invested by others so far. The maintenance and building of trails at JH will, in the long term, need to be formalized into a group/organisation based on similar models that have been successful elsewhere (either in SA or globally). It needs to be turned into a decent trail centre, as we have a great tract of forestry land and a logging company prepared to indulge us - this is a rarity. Does anybody know of any decent trails here in sa that have an on-going building and maintenance scheme? How do they work as an organisation?
