Offroading illegally

[chris-red]

A quick question, I saw a while back a load of people ragging around MX bikes on a patch of waste land.

This land is clearly fit for no other purpose, there is a pylon in the middle of it, the ground is a mix of mud and rocks, nothing you would want your kids to play on or dog to walk on. I am assuming these guy where here illegally.

There is a road entrance which has 2 fence posts with a chain which you could easily squeeze a bike past.

If you where caught by the old bill on this land what would be the punishment? I have no intention of causing trouble of damaging anything, just thing when I get an offroad bike this would be a good place to practice near my house.
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[chris-red]

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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[Imonster]

[chris-red]

[Imonster]

[clancy]

section 59 would be my bet, or trespassing
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[silky666]

Dont listen to IMonster ... I think it was him that got me in trouble last time at the Chalk Pit

Just dont do it ... in fact if you do, I hope you get
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[Imonster]

[silky666]

[ChowderV4]

Depends, when i was 16 ish i used to go offroading all the time, Geevor/Levant tin mine etc. All national trust land generally i was ok riding there as long as you slowed for walkers etc.
But we did get the odd complaint, i got a section something? that said if i was caught again my bike would be crushed

....i got caught about 5 more times and nothing happened but that may have been the young age sympathy going on.

Just dont stay in one place for too long where you know people will hear/see you.
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[Imonster]

[mad4it028]

in the 80s there was loads of places waiste land ect you could ride wasnt 100%legal but nobody bothered police would come check frame and engine numbers and you were on your way again
i used to ride hempstead vally and many chalk pits around medway towns with out issue ,
now you cant fart in these places without some do gooder complaining
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[yen_powell]

Police don't do you for trespass, the landowner has to take you to court and sue you for the damages caused by your trespass.

The damage is usually a few pence worth of grass ruined, the court costs are the killer. Me and two others were sued for trespass by a land owner in Hertfordshire, we never lost, he never won, he was awarded costs. He asked for about 70k, he was trying to offload costs from a previous law suite he's mucked up, he ended up with about 38k.

Luckily the TRF covered our costs, later on the highway authority declared our route to in fact be a carriageway, as we had argued all the way through.

The landowner went to appeal with some very expensive barristers and it is now a bridleway. He was actually pushing to stop foot and horse use as well, despite it being shown on maps from the 1700s as a main road.
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[Hetzer]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Don't do it kids.

The more people that do it, the more it gives the ramblers ammunition to close the few rights of way we do have.
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[chris-red]

Everywhere I look I see land that would be perfect to take a bike on
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[silky666]

[michael j]

Firstly, I would like to point out that I am one of the SE Originals and secondly, ha ha you mug! lol

[Imonster]

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[garyd]

B............as they were riding illegally ,group A should have knocked him silly for obstructing vehicles on a road
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[silky666]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[chris-red]

I have been thinking about this after hearing about Rambliars and watching Svens video. I figure the best thing to do is be as polite as possible, if they kick of when you are in the right and you stay chilled, they will look and feel like a twat and you can keep an feeling smugness for quite a while.
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[garyd]

Making them feel a twat wont change the legallity of the lanes or their ability to report you /argue with you .....whereas, a 70s style rag dolling quits their jibber jabber and will make them think twice before either ,walking that way again or mouthing off to you ,number plate fell off and is in your rucksack,every other week keep your hand in at the local footy match
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