Man admits damaging Wellington mountain bike tracks, formally warned by police (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 10 months ago by thevoyagekayaking to c/newzealand

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Fuck me, our justice system is beyond useless. Not even a financial contribution towards the tracks due to the damage done?

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[-] phtheven@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Racking my brain for a possible motive here... Is this just a disturbed person? Could it be anything else? Is this even worth wondering about?

[-] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

here in america it's often old wealthy hikers who think anyone who isn't hiking is 'destroying' the 'peace' of nature, and they deserve to be punished.

we just had a article in our local paper arguing mountain bikers are evil people who endanger the 'peaceful' good people who don't ride bikes. we have also had people lay traps on the trails every few years.

it's just messed up people who think their way is the only way, and everyone else who is different than them should be the victim of violence until they are 'corrected'.

[-] AWOL_muppet 1 points 10 months ago

There are Karearea nesting around there (I think they do it on the ground too!), so that might be it - presumably that'd be far away from where people are zipping past, though

[-] AWOL_muppet 2 points 10 months ago

As a regular up there, I'm stoked it's resolved.

Its hard to tell sometimes but ive had riders warn me several times of branches lying in suspicious places on the trails that they were sure were intentionally placed to be harmful.

It's all old pine, so they seem to let go occasionally, with the winds and all.

I'm glad to not need to worry about evil surprises - those tracks are gnarly enough as it is!

[-] thevoyagekayaking 1 points 10 months ago

I usually ride through Aro valley, but I've done a circuit of Mt Vic a few times.

Most of the MTB tracks are new tracks, so I'm not sure what everyone is moaning about.

[-] AWOL_muppet 1 points 9 months ago

...No? Most of the tracks on Mt Vic are really old.

Sure, they've built a bunch of new jump lines in the last 5 years, but the old ones are the good ones: Damien's, bomb hole, groms, V, park bench, TTS are all well over a decade old (or considerably more, especially Damien's which goes back to the mid-90s, allegedly)