Easy on JD, I doubt 101 is calling for the YTs to become some extreme sport experience, just that it keeps some of the challenges in there. Surely you must also share the disappointment when an act of God or trail maintainer (are they the same?) puts something reasonably challenging in only for it to be removed? I know I am even though it presents a new opportunity to lose skin.
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Nothing has changed. What's been removed. What's been sanitized. What "challenges" have been nullified? I could count on one hand the "challenges" along the entire stretch. Even Hans hasn't changed. These trails remain the same as they always have. Any work done will change with the next rain or 1000 users.
You talk as though filling in a rut or removing a fallen tree has somehow destroyed the experience.
The Yarra trails a a collection of odds and ends, of scrapped together linking tracks that except for Hans are all illegal. They have no input from Parks unless it starts to look like a MTB trail ( berms, jumps, etc). It is what it is and always has been. While this year there are a few doing their bit to maintain and make them sustainable - next year perhaps not. The trails ebb and flow depending on conditions and effort from individuals. Tell me why should anyone bother? You can't please everyone but what a whining minority.
I don't think I'm being harsh and I realize that 101 and everyone else don't want a MTB park. Once again- if you want something different then get involved- get active and lead by example. It is like complaining about the government after failing to vote.
Seriously why would anyone care ?
I'm on holiday on the Gold Coast for a month- I don't give a flying ratsarse about it- "sips beer by the lagoon"
