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Trail bureaucracy at its finest

Oct 5, 2015 at 11:06
by Randy Cunningham  
Rupert Off-road Cycling Club ROCC
Published by Krow Cunningham
well the mountain bike tourism symposium in Williams Lake BC pretty much gutted the idea of ever getting a successful club and bike trail system around here in prince rupert. The soon to be lack of a bike shop and lack of local motivation and effort to ever get this thing off the ground has brought it to my mind that we as a bike community has never existed here in rupert. It takes more than 1 , 2 or even 10 people to make this thing happen. My own personal dream to have positive local economic impact with mountain bike tourism in this town has been crushed. Ive personally put in over 1000s of dollars and over a 1000 hours in this area in the last few years to see roadblock after roadblock, and watch the trails i help build get eaten by the bureaucracy of the canadian government and the local native government. Its all bout greed folks!! If it doesnt put money in the pockets right now nobody is interested. Ive said this time and time again I personally dont have the ability to administrate this on my own nor the funds anymore to put into trails only to watch it all waste away. Its come to a conclusion that if you want to ride trails on a bike move from Prince Rupert.

Randy Krow Cunningham
founder of ROCC

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 Honesty wont work. Try bullshitting the money hungry Land managers with stories of rich mountain bikers pumping millions of dollars into the local economy. Doesn't have to be true. People are rather ignorant about truth and prefer fairy tales. I cant stand bureaucracy so i generally ride trails that dont have easy to find entrances or exists. I feel for you. All that effort and money trying to legitimize the sport. To a bunch of fat people that get every where by car and have no idea why you do what you do. Dont move to the North Shore. The politics here are fucked up! I could not build a new trail here if I paid the land managers bags of money, So instead we rip up one persons version of the perfect trail and machine build featureless roads over the existing trail and call them trails.
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 i just came back from the puddle and to be honest i have family and a lot of friends there, plus they need trail builders because of the vast trail network they have i mean fackn massive. I'd really have a tough time leaving prince rupert cause it makes sense to build a trail network here we see little to no snow here, we have a drivable mt road to the top of our mts on a island. the view up there is one of the best views ive ever seen of the coast, you can see Alaska man. So the path ive walk over and over of where i want my trail = to bout 6500+ m with the switch backs through huge cedars and fir with lots of big wind blown cedar. Thats to the highway cross that and add 1400 more to the rapids that surround the island. Almost 8000 m of singletrack, downhill for the most part.I would build it BUT! NRO says build a club and get a land tenour first and oh ya heres your cease and desist and a $112 fine







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