This is a general warning to anyone riding trails around the place, be they singletrack or fireroad. A rider was injured over the weekend by a length of wire strung at head height between two trees. The wire was spotted at the last minute and so the injury wasn’t as serious as it could have been, but there was still damage done. The incident occurred on a descent that is normally ridden at high speed and it was only lucky timing that meant the rider wasn’t going full bore.
There are vigilante morons everywhere at the moment, setting booby traps that have the potential to seriously injure or even kill riders. It’s a sad state of affairs, but one we all need to be very wary of! This is the second similar occurrence in a pretty short amount of time, at two separate trail locations, so keep your eyes open. If you do find something, alert the police so they’re aware of this becoming a dangerous trend.
Please spread the word about this, cheers.
Shit, thats intense, ignorant wankers.
Hopefully someone finds who does this and brings pain to them.
Retards. That is so fkn dangerous. That could have killed him. Seriously stupid.
Gee, such a doyen of responsibility, this man-trapper. Somebody rides on a trail (which may or may not be legal) so somebody sets out to murder in order to uphold the law. I feel so safe that somebody is willing to murder for the sake of our trails.
Feken hell!!
That’s full on. You have done well to come off as well as you have..
Did you call the cops and get the CSI teem on to it? This is not the first time i have seen stuff like this on trails. There are always rock moved on to trails placed after drops where is could be serious. I have even had near miss with a bunch of large tree branches after a drop which could have lethal the way these were arranged.
I think its ether Hobart Walking Club members or Bogans.. (Though they are much the same thing in my book)
It all happened on a perfectly legal trail. And yeah, cops were notified and it seems like there will be a little bit of effort put into stopping this kind of thing happening in the future. At least I hope so.