MTBers injured by wire trap in Cape Town!

[Coolspin]

mountain biker risks : mugging

                                    decapitation

 

road bike risks : cars

 

eish, soon people will only be safe on indoor trainers.

[gummibear]

Sadly we've had the same in the UK before. Fishing wire between trees.

 

I don't know if there has ever been a fatality, but certainly people have been injured. 

Having it over here now to.A village that's close to one of the trails is fighting with a bike and Kayak rental shop over the increased people in the area.

 

Have had logs put on the trails and rope tied across the path.Fortunately not been any injuries yet.

[Headshot]

In Canada the bikers set up cameras and trapped a woman in her 70's setting traps on bike trails near Vancouver. She was successfully prosecuted.

[GrahamS2]

We ride in the Benoni agricultural area between the small holdings and farms and have often had wire pulled between posts . Luckily its on the flat sections  and not on the down hill sections and have always been able to spot the wire . Dumping of rubble on a known track , single or Jeep track is also a common occurrence that catches us off guard  . The question we ask is WHY . We do not make a noise , tear the fields up or disturb wilstock . 

The wire and rubble is most likely aimed at dirt bikers (who do make noise and tear up the fields). 

[Bonus]

In Canada the bikers set up cameras and trapped a woman in her 70's setting traps on bike trails near Vancouver. She was successfully prosecuted.

 

I remember that story. Wasn't she taking the jumps apart too?

[gummibear]

In Canada the bikers set up cameras and trapped a woman in her 70's setting traps on bike trails near Vancouver. She was successfully prosecuted.

https://mpora.com/action/mountainbiking/65-year-old-canadian-woman-sentenced-filmed-booby-trapping-mountain-bike-trails-british-columbia/

[Headshot]

If I was the cyclists and lived near the Glen track, I'd be investing in a game camera to try and catch the perp. 

 

That said, that riding area was always going to be a bit of a conflict zone. Dog walkers on the steepest fast DH section with bikes is a bad mix. 

[Tromp]

If a bunch of dogs roam the woods , how do you identify the bitch ? Well , it won't be Little Red Riding Hood , so it must be the one with the wire trap.

[Jewbacca]

Wasn't the injured midget part of a very reputable bicycle tour/rental company, a player in the Enduro WC organising committee and a part of creating Ezelenduro and a solution to our local timing issues?

 

I would recognise his booger green hand made in Cape Town Steel bike anywhere... 

[Hairy]

In Canada the bikers set up cameras and trapped a woman in her 70's setting traps on bike trails near Vancouver. She was successfully prosecuted.

there was also a situation on another TM trail where someone was breaking up and covering the trails .... the Table Mountain MTB guys set up a camera and managed to find out who it was..... guessing this will be the way forward on the Glen for a while to see what shows up on.

[bikebloke]

Privilege and self entitlement are far more likely the culprit here than crime

 

time to put out a game camera

[Patchelicious]

Privilege and self entitlement are far more likely the culprit here than crime

 

time to put out a game camera

Absolutely.

 

You will probably find it is some 70 year old angry man who spends the days shouting at clouds.

 

If he was younger or tougher or a criminal, they would simply do it themselves as they will probably find that more satisfying.

 

This is an act of a coward.

[Meezo]

Wasn't the injured midget part of a very reputable bicycle tour/rental company, a player in the Enduro WC organising committee and a part of creating Ezelenduro and a solution to our local timing issues?

 

I would recognise his booger green hand made in Cape Town Steel bike anywhere... 

 

iridetoo?

[Grease_Monkey]

This was quite a common practice when I lived in Richards Bay a couple years back (2007-2010). The traps were set by criminals who would take bikes and mug the rider. If I remember correctly a few riders ended up in hospital with severe injuries. Hopefully this was just some isolated angry ******* and not the beginning of this kind of crime....