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I doubt that we'll see a staging area there. The entrance to the property is at the very top of Palomares Road. I guess that one day one could do a totally epic ride from Foothill blvd trough 3 ridges to Palomares Road and back to your car via Niles Canyon.JoeBMX said:Nice find. Wonder how long it'll take to get a staging area in there.
Gonna have to disagree with you here - the overwhelming majority of hikers I see out at the Ridge are enjoying the fire roads.CodePoet said:I know as I am riding on the roads I never have to look out for another biker because everyone else is on the single track (hikers included) !
I love to bash the district as much as the next guy, but this is not the best time or park to do so. 1) the main fireroad climb was originally done to serve the housing development that was supposed to take place on the ridge but that got stopped and replaced by the park. 2) the current master plan for the park calls for over 20 miles of multi use narrow trails. 3) Another 1000 acres will be added to the park.jschwart73 said:I bet EBRPD plows some sick fire roads for us to ride on there!
I spoken to a number of teams in that area and come away with the sense that these mistakes are just that and not flagrant violations.There are a few new teams and coaches and some of the volunteers are not familiar with the trails. It must be acknowledged, though, that the anticipation of a fun piece of singletrack is hard to resist when other riders are seeing using it already.CodePoet said:I can't understand why the bike shop / club that rides in the evenings is teaching riders/kids to ride on the illegal trails. Kudos for getting kids to ride but teaching them to knowingly do so on illegal trails is not cool. When you bring 20+ people out and encourage them to break the law I think more harm then good is being done.
Okay - who stole Zorg's computer?zorg said:B!tching and whining about fireroads on the ridge ain't gonna get us anything meaningful. Getting engaged and showing support the master plan would be more productive. My 2 cents.
Supporting the Master Plan isn't going to work and you're kidding yourself if you think it is. EBRPD is going to placate mountain bikers through the whole process and then put up "No Bikes" signs when they open the trails.zorg said:I love to bash the district as much as the next guy, but this is not the best time or park to do so. 1) the main fireroad climb was originally done to serve the housing development that was supposed to take place on the ridge but that got stopped and replaced by the park. 2) the current master plan for the park calls for over 20 miles of multi use narrow trails. 3) Another 1000 acres will be added to the park.
I mean, this has the potential for being the biggest bike friendly park in the east bay (something like 6000+ acres). B!tching and whining about fireroads on the ridge ain't gonna get us anything meaningful. Getting engaged and showing support the master plan would be more productive. My 2 cents.
Just because they're nude doesn't mean you want to see it.justme said:what!!! nudist use it too. let's go ride Pleasanton Ridge.
The work that is being done on PR is separate from the Master Plan. Both need work.jschwart73 said:Supporting the Master Plan isn't going to work...
Working together doesn't work, if only because MTB'ers as a whole (there are of course, exceptions such as BTCEB and the like) don't have the same level of resources as many of the other trail use groups out there.