What annoys you when you're out building?

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What annoys you when you're out building?
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flag okietwister
Posted: Apr 9, 2014 at 5:37 Quote
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oklahoma locust tree Smile
flag marxthekittah
Posted: Apr 9, 2014 at 7:00 Quote
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flag hgardner
Posted: Apr 9, 2014 at 7:50 Quote
Theese guys
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flag PedalShopLLC
Posted: Apr 11, 2014 at 6:35 Quote
VTwintips wrote:
okietwister wrote:
stickers not the cool stuff ya put on but he sharp thingies that poke holes
ticks
poison ivy
snakes
coyotes
did I mention stickers?blackberry or other wise...

prickers?


ticks - check, can't go one ride without having to do a tick check
gnats - often -- little buggers always find a way to land right in your eye
snakes - taint seen nuttin lethal around here lately --- non letahal don't bother me.
gnarly spiders - oh yeah... bluck -- hee-bee-gee-bee's *** black widow are common around here.
thorn bush - here and there but nuttin' major
coyotes, fox, bear = they're out there but I hardly ever see them
poison ivy = got some on my leg now
bees = yellow jackets are the ones to watch out for around here -- the nest in the ground so they'll get ya when ya least expect it.
flag recklessness
Posted: Apr 11, 2014 at 6:39 Quote
PedalShopLLC wrote:
VTwintips wrote:
okietwister wrote:
stickers not the cool stuff ya put on but he sharp thingies that poke holes
ticks
poison ivy
snakes
coyotes
did I mention stickers?blackberry or other wise...

prickers?


ticks - check, can't go one ride without having to do a tick check
gnats - often -- little buggers always find a way to land right in your eye
snakes - taint seen nuttin lethal around here lately --- non letahal don't bother me.
gnarly spiders - oh yeah... bluck -- hee-bee-gee-bee's *** black widow are common around here.
thorn bush - here and there but nuttin' major
coyotes, fox, bear = they're out there but I hardly ever see them
poison ivy = got some on my leg now
bees = yellow jackets are the ones to watch out for around here -- the nest in the ground so they'll get ya when ya least expect it.
Damn, you have it bad. Just mosquitoes here pretty much.
flag pinkkrow
Posted: Apr 11, 2014 at 7:06 Quote
not that im ever worried but if ya want to talk wildlife, we got griz and black bear, 120 pound wolves and the worst animal of them all is the NRO. (Natural Resources Officer). I wish it was hunting season for NRO's
flag yo13bo
Posted: Apr 11, 2014 at 15:52 Quote
So I cannot identify a spider I found while digging on any identification charts. Who heres found a new species? Haha. Might try catch one and show it to an expert.
flag tom666
Posted: Apr 12, 2014 at 9:32 Quote
So I went down to my jumps with my mate for the first time in like 9 months.


Looks like a homeless person lives there permanently now lol


Had his little shitty tent set up a good'un between two jumps. We had a look inside and he had motorbike gloves, a sleeping bag, 4 cans of stella, a porno mag and some tinned food.


Like a boss
flag okietwister
Posted: Apr 12, 2014 at 16:55 Quote
tom666 wrote:
So I went down to my jumps with my mate for the first time in like 9 months.


Looks like a homeless person lives there permanently now lol


Had his little shitty tent set up a good'un between two jumps. We had a look inside and he had motorbike gloves, a sleeping bag, 4 cans of stella, a porno mag and some tinned food.


Like a boss


what no tip for keeping others off your jumps?
son I am dissapoint Facepalm
flag mk3lew
Posted: Apr 13, 2014 at 16:48 Quote
What annoys me when I'm building?
Pit bikes tearing up a freshly built trail, and also walkers destroying features of our trails and putting logs across them despite the fact we built these trails from scratch to avoid their walking paths. Every week the trails get trashed. God only knows what I might do if I catch someone at it.
flag James-Carey
Posted: Apr 14, 2014 at 1:53 Quote
TheLou94 wrote:
What annoys me when I'm building?
Pit bikes tearing up a freshly built trail, and also walkers destroying features of our trails and putting logs across them despite the fact we built these trails from scratch to avoid their walking paths. Every week the trails get trashed. God only knows what I might do if I catch someone at it.




I recently caught a load if dudes down the woods... Easier to be fair, explain what's up and be adult than throw a shitstorm. Also I was walking once and found a jump. The sides were so bad I couldn't not slab them up. I guess that's acceptable though haha. I don't get what goes through walkers heads when they trash jumps...
flag tom666
Posted: Apr 14, 2014 at 3:04 Quote
I think they look over and just see piles of dirt that are not part of the landscape. They see jumps as ugly vandalism rather than works of art like we do. They cannot envision that people come there most weekends with bikes, dig, ride, enjoy nature etc. They literally just see them as piles of dirt that shouldn't be there. Might also associate jumps with litter and noise.

Normally once they see what they're used for and that a huge amount of work goes into them it's fine. It's just initial ignorance really. The perspectives walkers and mountain bikers have are different ends of the spectrum and makes it hard for them to understand each other's viewpoints Confused
flag KingsgateDirtJumper
Posted: Apr 14, 2014 at 10:07 Quote
tom666 wrote:
So I went down to my jumps with my mate for the first time in like 9 months.
Looks like a homeless person lives there permanently now lol

I had to kick 2 different sets of campers out of my trails this year, so annoying!
I get that life is rough and it must suck sleeping out in the woods, but as I told them, there are many places to camp away from the jumps. One guy kept coming back after dark to camp, so we actually tore out the landing that he was camping under and re-used all of the wood elsewhere. Now we get to clean up all of his garbage.... douche!

 


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