Podcast: Illegal-ish Mountain Bike Trails
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
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4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we talk about illegal-ish mountain bike trails, or as Greg wanted to call it, “50 Shades of Gray Trails.” We’ll define the concept of gray trails and talk about some of the issues surrounding building and using unauthorized mountain bike trails.
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| 0:25.8 | Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining us on the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:31.2 | Today we're going to be talking about illegal-ish mountain bike trails, or as Greg likes to call them, |
| 0:36.3 | grey-area trails. So, Greg, what exactly are gray-area trails? |
| 0:43.4 | In short, I'd say these trails are trails that don't specifically mention whether bikes are or are not allowed. |
| 0:47.7 | You just, like, there's no signage telling you one way or the other. |
| 0:48.5 | Right. |
| 0:55.3 | So, well, that's interesting because, you know, mountain bikes have been around for three decades now. And so you would think that land managers would have had a chance to decide you know whether mountain bikes are |
| 0:59.9 | allowed or not or you know get their signs updated so why is there still so much ambiguity out there |
| 1:06.0 | so this is probably mostly just supposition on my part but i think there's a couple of things one i think |
| 1:11.8 | big government is just really slow to change you know especially when we're talking about |
| 1:16.0 | federal lands that are being managed but the second one is potentially just a lack of funds to |
| 1:21.8 | properly sign and mark some of these trails you know there could be a lot on the book somewhere saying whether or not |
| 1:28.7 | a specific trail is open for bikes, but that doesn't mean that they've put a sign on the trail telling |
| 1:33.7 | you whether or not it's open. Sometimes I just think there's a lot of things that falls through the gaps |
| 1:37.9 | in those cases. Right, right. And it may be, I guess, in a lot of those places where there is no signage, |
| 1:44.8 | there really hasn't been any conflict or anything like that to really force the issue. |
| 1:49.3 | Yeah, especially when we're talking about federal lands and big national forests. |
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