Off roading?

tatters · Exxon Valdez Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Karma :

What sort of places would be ok to take a field bike or a road legal insured hack for messing about on.

theres a large waste land area what used to be a gravel pit/rubish dump about 50y ago near my house thats now all hills and fields that l think the councel own, would l ok taking my bike over there to mess about on.
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space · Renault 5 Driver Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Karma :

You'll be ok up Byways/RUPPs with road legal bike insured,not sure on the waste land, wont need to be road legal, its if some busy body,police or council might not take kindly but you never know till you try, got some waste land outside my house i take my bike on not had probs yet, but i bet someone will say something soon, its getting harder and harder to use bikes off the road.

Numb Nuts · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Karma :

Green laning etc has just been made illegal, the police can now take your bike and crush it Sad

tbh though if your fully insured on an MOT'd bike and you get pulled, if your well mannered and polite im sure they will just let you get on your way, act like a tool and expect to be treated like one Wink

Lots of proper motox tracks dotted about the country and lots of places where you can go green laning without worrying about the fuzz. depends on what sort of terrain your after and where you live though.

Id stay clear of waste land near built up areas though, it will piss people off and they will call the rozzers.

Shame its been made illegal to green lane though, it looked a great hobby and i very much doubt it made much difference to the environemnt.

Aikman666 · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Karma :

I used to offroad on a fully illegal/uninsured bike without a license on a peice of council owned wasteland where a battery factory used to be. The rozzers never bothered me once, as the bike was reasonably quiet and i was curteous to people i encountered. I even rode it along the canal (now surely thats not legal) and a local forest...never given any bother or even chased...would have made for a good tale to tell aswell Laughing

Though i think the laws regarding that sorta thing are a bit different in Scotland. Not sure if they really are and how they are, just heard that.
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l0nes0mecr0w · L Plate Warrior Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Karma :

it's a question: better to have all the forest you want in your country or to have less ut be ale to enjoy it?

i'm telling you fellows, move in Greece!
i got a free to ride mountain behind my house in Athens and i'm going enduro in a forest aout 15 minutes from my house. all legal. and if it weren't nobody would care(sad to say from a point of view)