Speed traps on trails
- Thread starter johnbryanpeters
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"slow to a crawl"
lawl
lawl
All the ads for me at that link are for Yeti bikes available at Jenson, I lost interest in reading. The lizard people are in my brain.
This is nothing that an aggressive airborn form of EbolAids couldn't solve.
Been that way in Mid Penninsula Openspace for years, Cat and mouse game where if you lose and they get you on radar its a $350 for going over the 15mph limit. Most judges will drop it to $50 if you go to court. I know where the rangers tend to hide and have always been under speed when lasered (so far anyways). Now the Lidar is spreading to bike hating Marin to our north, I'm surprised that it has taken them this long to implement it.
The limits are insanely low, not that I am surprised by that. Are the trails stupidly crowded?
hrbl
How nice that Marin County has stopped all the actual crime.
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Stravassholes on singletrack blasting downhill on weekends and BODs that are hiker/ equestrian dominated created the situation in mid pen. Marin just hates Mt bikers and it will be that way until the old bitties die off.
Luckily east bay parks is less heavy handed although their idea of single tack is a fire road and Soquel Demonstation State Forest which is totally pro bike and has hairball technical trails with almost no restrictions other than the trails have to be approved and all stunts must have a bail out ride around
does it really matter when handing out tickets for something so fucking silly?wrong UoM. a parsec is a measure of distance
you're gonna be handing out the tickets?
I'd rather see toll booths on the trails.
+ riders in lizard skin.
and you have a problem with bill clinton all of the sudden?
Marin has been doing that since the early 90s. I regularly passed rangers sitting on the trail.
Strava leading to bike bans?
http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/news/199-city-affairs/52101
http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/news/199-city-affairs/52101
Fucking stravaholes. Just say no to strava.
This is why you don't want your government to be too liberal. Eventually they get around to crap like this or decide significant portions of open space should be wildlife sanctuaries or something else similarly stupid.
Ah, another fine example of the equestrian "we are riding unpredictable and sometimes uncontrollable 1,000 lb behemoths and require everyone else to silently float past as to not disturb the tranquil equilibrium between myself and my trail-shitting glue beast" attitude.
shitting bricks about cyclists riding 20+mph, zero fucks given about speeding / reckless motorists killing pedestrians (including cyclists). 'Merica
I freely admit to using Strava. But it hasn't turned me into a d-bag. This same stuff existed before smart phones came around. Remember those little computers with the magnet in the front spokes? I've said hello to these trail dentists, moved over for them to let them steam past and they usually don't even wave or reply to the hello. Bunch of losers, it just means I won't offer them a beer in the parking lot.
And I have never seen a trail with a speed limit. That just seems odd to me. I've passed police cars rolling down hills in my old neighborhood before, with no issues.
Is this just a regional problem?
Cyclists don't speed, bikes do. Why demonize the cyclist, we all know they are completely at the mercy of the tool at hand.
also, -10 points for admitting to using strava
User error not system error. Strava is a great tool, but they way these people use it is wrong. I also don't ride on anyone's super-duper secret stuff...
there is some state land by me that has some fun fire roads we have been ripping down long before strava....if there is a fast fun section of trail people are going pin it
"Strava - a great tool for tools"
Well.............at least I ride my bike.
...in canada.Well.............at least I ride my bike.
I don't have an issue with pinning it if you don't do stupid things. Leaving behind a self-incriminating record for everyone to see, in areas with long standing trail access conflicts, is beyond stupid IMHO.
This is just a push for the e-bike community. The technology for putting governors on the e- bike will only increase their purpose and place on trails, while traditional bicycles will be thrown under the bus for being uncontrollable. Marin will have e-bike trails that wirelessly regulate the speed and top end.
im not sticking up for strava people just saying people have been pinning it on multi use trails since mtb started
I no. I like to pin it, too. (I wish I was able to pin it even fustah)