Northern Farm

[BAN007]

I have recently started riding at Northern Farm again since their spait of unfortunate events. I am happy to be riding there again, but there seems to be a lack of manners amongst fellow riders there. Firstly if someone moves over for you to pass or opts for an alternative piece of singletrack to let oncoming traffic through the least people can do is say thank you!!Secondly when taking up parking in you vehicle at the farm please ensure that you do not park someone in. The security there have asked people to park elsewhere and they simply ignore them. I unfortunately fell victim to being parked in for over an hour on Sunday morning. I enjoy the mountain biking fraternity because in the past to greet or say thank you came naturally. This post is not here to start an argument but to just remind us all that a little manners go a long way.

[Gnarly]

I heard there was a punch up on the route due to not giving way.

[TiBones]

Only beef I have is people not reading frigging signs. I came across two bunches going the WRONG way on singletrack sections, both marked as "no entry - exit only" I checked to see that the signs were in place. Their replies - " oh! is this a one way?" ****** rode right past the no entry signs.

Then bumped into a bunch of youngsters on NF development bikes (= NF development kids?) haring along the wrong way on the new section of Single track down at the river. With those steep drops, soft sand and power climbs, coupled with my not so light, non carbon bike and it's hundred plus kg rider, I could have hurt one of those kiddies if I hadn't seen them just in time.

Chatting to one of the guys responsible for building all this new awesome track afterwards, he said that people deliberately remove sign s so that they can go in the direction they want, and, in one case, one bloke actually took a sign from one end of the st and put it at the other end so he could ride it in the other direction.

[Apemanscolony]

Thats not lekker.

 

Come on mtb'ers thats not how its done.

[chris_w_65]

Seems like some people are just stupid