Hike or bike

Ernie Simmons

05/06/2001 at 18:19

Hi
I'm going on a kinda mini expo/tour/wander some time this year (depends on when/if/where I get a job having just left college) and I dunno if I shoudl hike it or go on my MTB. I've got plenty of experiance of camping and general ruffing it so thats not a worry but I dunno about the mode of transport

Jon

Barry Smith 2

05/06/2001 at 21:58

Hi Jon
In my exprience you do both anyway! (you dont cycle on FOOTPATHS, do you?) lets face it, a cycle makes a good tent carrier! leaves your rucsac for important stuff like bandages for lacerated legs and such.
What about cycle there and walk back? if you can trust your steed with Parcel Force/Railway/Carrier Pidgeon!
Baz

Ernie Simmons

06/06/2001 at 18:11

I only cycle on appropriate paths. By this I mena definatly not in towns but old paths and roads where there is no good reason (erosion/danger to other users etc) for me not to cycle. I've got panniers if I take the bike. Its not going to be an expo all the way there cos I'm thinking of abusing the isle of white (beutifull scenary easy to get to not huge though thats why I thought of walking)

Jon

Guy Vine

06/06/2001 at 23:08

Barry,

Get real, Most MTB'ers do not ride on footpaths we stick to bridleways and RUPP's, questions like the ones you ask just help to cause the divide between walkers and MTB'ers, surley the outdoors is for all of us? I walk as well but get embarised by people like you putting down bikers

neil rich

07/06/2001 at 08:45

Guy Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
You'll wake up Arthur Paddington
And we don't want all that again!

Ernie Simmons

07/06/2001 at 21:02

Most MTbers realise they have a negative public image so they don't ride anywhere that will give them a bad name

Jon

Ernie Simmons

14/06/2001 at 19:54

I think I'm going to go down to my Nans (portsmouth) then ride to the ferry go accross to the isle of wight cycle to a campsite, set up base camp and the walk from there or cycle on little day excursions

jon

James Smith 1

18/06/2001 at 18:45

Yeah guy, lets try to keep off the great rambler/insolent biker/respectful biker just this once. Having said that, it's a good job that Mikey V off mountainbiking newsgroup hasn't found us yet...

Clive Clasby (Old Git)

02/07/2001 at 00:01

I though Arthur was good value for money! never in the field of outdoors magic has so much spleen been vented by so many against so few (ie one)it was like an anger managment course gone haywire!

Jon Doran

02/07/2001 at 10:23

Arthur Paddington is always welcome here. I found myself agreeing with virtually everything he had to say - he was so, well, reasonable, balanced and fair. It's just a shame that he hasn't posted for a while.

OutdoorsMagic Editor | jon@outdoorsmagic.com

Hedgehope Aztec

02/07/2001 at 16:39

It's my birthday today, and guess what I got?.. Yep a mountain bike! I always thought those MTBer's were nice chappies!

tony mcgarley

08/07/2001 at 21:14

Mike, tell me which mountain you're biking up, just so as i know where is safe and where isn't.

no offence, of course :)

neil rich

08/07/2001 at 21:33

you're probably safe when he's going up, just don't get in the way when he's coming down

Hedgehope Aztec

09/07/2001 at 16:12

Didn't even get close to a mountain. Went out for a spin in the countryside and down a disused railway line. Had a altercation with a farmer (Grroff my land). Cycled back home... woke-up with a crowd around me! I was lying on the roadside, complete memory wipe, haven't got a clue what happened to me. Two days off work, shoulder still in pain now. :(

tony mcgarley

09/07/2001 at 21:59

Mike, you REALLY worry me. if i pay you enough protection money will you promise to keep away from me, thus rendering me safe in the hills?

have you EVER did ANYTHING that didn't involve danger?

Hedgehope Aztec

10/07/2001 at 00:55

Tony, I'm a case for concern by my own family, my dad said at the weekend "Must have used all your lives up by now". I told him I was well past the nine, and it all started when he dropped me when I was 3 months old.......
When I look at it it, it all seems made up, if only. I forget half the things that have happened to me. At least I can laugh, even when the pain is still there (It's a bugger typing when half of you is buggered). I've not worked out yet if I'm unlucky or lucky, most likely lucky, I'm still alive after all. (no joke)

tony mcgarley

10/07/2001 at 23:16

Mike, you say that it all seems made up, but i can well believe you. when i reached the age of 24, i looked back on my life and wondered just how the hell i was still alive.
if i'd have written a book about my escapades at that early age, it would be on the fiction shelf.

i believe in the 'lucky' side of your stance. (no joke).

but keep away from me anyway :)

Quentin Matthews

20/07/2001 at 11:44

Hi, new to this site but wanted to join in the debate.

I don't think there's any case for cyclists to be allowed in the coutryside at all. Last month Daddy had to sell one of our farms, just wasn't profitabl after those horrid bikers spread Foot and Mouth disease. Luckily it wasn't a big one, and we still have the spread in Devon for the Grouse Season. Can't wait!

Pat Mustard

20/07/2001 at 11:46

Yo, you walking w@nkers.
My good friends over at BIKEmagic know the answer to this question.
Bike every time, except in the county of Wales where Sundays are spent drinking in the chapel and looking for action in the local cottages.

Fred Fishfinger

20/07/2001 at 11:48

Yep, I agree. Those dirty cyclists should stay as far away from our farms as possible. Same goes for those walkers. It just disrupts the shoots. How are we meant to make any money off the hills if there are people getting in the way all the time?

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