Will the dickhead who thinks he/she is making improvements to the top 1/2 of the anaconda fuckin stop it. You've turned a very well made and fun piece of track into a flat boring drainage disaster. You obviously have no idea what you are doing. Dick.

Word on the street is it was PD squad last weekend, working outside of the ranger's knowledge?

Oh no

I'm afraid to go and look. How bad is it?

Pretty average TBH. It'll need a bit of work to get the drainage sorted that's for sure. It looks a bit like it's being set up to be based up and asphalted for a path ! Met the geezer in Taylor's who has done alot of work on it with Nic's permission and he was well shitty, and rightly so.

It is on DOC land and DOC arranged for a PD crew to 'maintain' it without any knowledge, oversight or guidance as to how a mtb track should flow.
Nick S, CCC park ranger, met with them last Sunday and has arranged for no more to be done unless supervised by suitably qualified person.

Best of intentions, shame about the outcome.

And an side to Dogs Bollocks - this may come as a surprise to you but I don't think, nay I'm sure, that reading VORB threads is not high on DOC staff, PD supervisors, and CCC staff sources of information & feedback. Although we in vorb-land would love to imagine great throw & influence fact is bugger all NZ'ers read this stuff so a pretty small audience for your bleat

pedalingkiwi wrote:It is on DOC land and DOC arranged for a PD crew to 'maintain' it without any knowledge, oversight or guidance as to how a mtb track should flow.
Nick S, CCC park ranger, met with them last Sunday and has arranged for no more to be done unless supervised by suitably qualified person.

Best of intentions, shame about the outcome.

And an side to Dogs Bollocks - this may come as a surprise to you but I don't think, nay I'm sure, that reading VORB threads is not high on DOC staff, PD supervisors, and CCC staff sources of information & feedback. Although we in vorb-land would love to imagine great throw & influence fact is bugger all NZ'ers read this stuff so a pretty small audience for your bleat

And as an aside (just getting the England correct) to pedalingkiwi - this may come as a surprise to you but I figured raising an issue that affects mountain bikers in Ch-Ch, about a mountain bike track in Ch-Ch directly in a mountain biking forum that mountain bikers from Ch-Ch read was a pretty good way to get a reaction from either someone involved, or someone who knew what had happened. Turns out I got option 2 from the "bugger all NZer's" and now we know it's being sorted.

DogsBollocks wrote:

pedalingkiwi wrote:It is on DOC land and DOC arranged for a PD crew to 'maintain' it without any knowledge, oversight or guidance as to how a mtb track should flow.
Nick S, CCC park ranger, met with them last Sunday and has arranged for no more to be done unless supervised by suitably qualified person.

Best of intentions, shame about the outcome.

And an side to Dogs Bollocks - this may come as a surprise to you but I don't think, nay I'm sure, that reading VORB threads is not high on DOC staff, PD supervisors, and CCC staff sources of information & feedback. Although we in vorb-land would love to imagine great throw & influence fact is bugger all NZ'ers read this stuff so a pretty small audience for your bleat

And as an aside (just getting the England correct) to pedalingkiwi - this may come as a surprise to you but I figured raising an issue that affects mountain bikers in Ch-Ch, about a mountain bike track in Ch-Ch directly in a mountain biking forum that mountain bikers from Ch-Ch read was a pretty good way to get a reaction from either someone involved, or someone who knew what had happened. Turns out I got option 2 from the "bugger all NZer's" and now we know it's being sorted.

True 'nuff, but extending the England correctness, using the word "you" implies that the Dick is in the audience you are addressing. Perhaps a better use of England would be to ask "Does anyone know which Dick..."

EoinC wrote:

DogsBollocks wrote:

pedalingkiwi wrote:It is on DOC land and DOC arranged for a PD crew to 'maintain' it without any knowledge, oversight or guidance as to how a mtb track should flow.
Nick S, CCC park ranger, met with them last Sunday and has arranged for no more to be done unless supervised by suitably qualified person.

Best of intentions, shame about the outcome.

And an side to Dogs Bollocks - this may come as a surprise to you but I don't think, nay I'm sure, that reading VORB threads is not high on DOC staff, PD supervisors, and CCC staff sources of information & feedback. Although we in vorb-land would love to imagine great throw & influence fact is bugger all NZ'ers read this stuff so a pretty small audience for your bleat

And as an aside (just getting the England correct) to pedalingkiwi - this may come as a surprise to you but I figured raising an issue that affects mountain bikers in Ch-Ch, about a mountain bike track in Ch-Ch directly in a mountain biking forum that mountain bikers from Ch-Ch read was a pretty good way to get a reaction from either someone involved, or someone who knew what had happened. Turns out I got option 2 from the "bugger all NZer's" and now we know it's being sorted.

True 'nuff, but extending the England correctness, using the word "you" implies that the Dick is in the audience you are addressing. Perhaps a better use of England would be to ask "Does anyone know which Dick..."

w3rd, my bad ..........

FWIW, I am a Dick, just not the Dick referred to.

pedalingkiwi wrote:And an side to Dogs Bollocks - this may come as a surprise to you but I don't think, nay I'm sure, that reading VORB threads is not high on DOC staff, PD supervisors, and CCC staff sources of information & feedback. Although we in vorb-land would love to imagine great throw & influence fact is bugger all NZ'ers read this stuff so a pretty small audience for your bleat

actually:

ranger singleton did have an account on here from memory once upon a time...
...there is at least one DOC staffer i know who posts almost daily

jussayin, i'll leave you lads to your discussion

el_booto wrote:

pedalingkiwi wrote:And an side to Dogs Bollocks - this may come as a surprise to you but I don't think, nay I'm sure, that reading VORB threads is not high on DOC staff, PD supervisors, and CCC staff sources of information & feedback. Although we in vorb-land would love to imagine great throw & influence fact is bugger all NZ'ers read this stuff so a pretty small audience for your bleat

actually:

ranger singleton did have an account on here from memory once upon a time...
...there is at least one DOC staffer i know who posts almost daily

jussayin, i'll leave you lads to your discussion

Aye, but said DOC staffer has nothing to do with tracks... (other than riding them!) He's into the biodiversity side of DOC