RabbyT

This is my last comment. I've moved to Canada now so i really shouldn't give a fuck. You guys are retarded. Arawn is correct, he hasn't misunderstood. Arawn, give up. It's a lost cause. P.S. the forestry commission is a nation-wide company, so when the "bunch of nobs" get pissed off at you, they also get pissed off at me, and at arawn, and at that guy who comments on all the pods, and at guys in newcastle, and glasgow, and southampton.... this doesn't effect just you. Open your eyes.

You really don't get it do you? It's not just the way the FC in Tain/Ross-Shire/highlands view you personally. Every time someone builds an illegal trail that's dangerous, or in the way, or that they have to pay destroy for some reason, they don't think "oh that's Luke building jumps again..." they think "fucking mountain bikers". So when someone goes to them and suggests they build an official track they don't want to because mountain bikers are all dicks who build illegal trails. Then when someone gets hurt on an official trail they consider closing it because mountain biking is too much work, too much money and too much of a risk for them. Why should they bother? It's not making them much money (if any at all), and it limits the forestry they can use for timber - their main profits, besides all mountain bikers are dicks right they don't care what the forestry commission think... We nearly lost Dunkeld last summer because they FC threatened to destroy it purely because they couldn't be bothered any more - it was too dangerous. Dunkeld is one of the best tracks in Scotland, and its only due to a huge amount of work from the SDA, NPS, and the mountain biking community that its still there, and even with that we lost the bottom half of one of the other DH tracks in Perthshire. I know to you it's just one jump, but think of the bigger picture for once, just cos you don't care whether or not they destroy your jump, they DO care that they have to destroy it. For you it's just something that's come and gone, but I can guarantee they'll remember it.

Luke are you a retard? They don't destroy the tracks because they're in their way, they destroy them cos it's illegal to build on their land. The muddy rut wasn't exactly in their way either, they still took that to bits, and drove big cat tracks over the 21 seconds. They destroy the tracks cos they're liable for any injuries on their land, and they don't want to get sued. If you build something up there you need to build it somewhere they wont find it, somewhere it's hidden. Not in the middle of the fucking road!

Guys, you have to destroy that jump, you're asking for trouble. You've built a jump ON the road. The only way that jump could be less appropriate is if you built it on top of a forestry commission van parked in the forestry commission head quarters car park on the day of the international meeting of the "Foresters Against Mountain Biking" committee chairmen.