Borrowdale Bash ..Slashed!

[The Hodge]

There is a link which I can't get to work ..to sign an objection / upgrade to bridleway status .
If anyone can get the link to work please post below ..thanks.

Uproar as mountain bikers banned from using Borrowdale track - cumbriacrack.com

The National Trust has sparked uproar from the mountain biking community after banning them from using a scenic footpath at Borrowdale.

cumbriacrack.com

 

[Tubby G]

There is a link which I can't get to work ..to sign an objection / upgrade to bridleway status .
If anyone can get the link to work please post below ..thanks.

Uproar as mountain bikers banned from using Borrowdale track - cumbriacrack.com

The National Trust has sparked uproar from the mountain biking community after banning them from using a scenic footpath at Borrowdale.

cumbriacrack.com

It’s a long winded form that has to be completed and returned to the Lake District National Park Authority:

https://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/147629/Form-E-User-Evidence-Form.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3kk2NEzT3cyiVzbJvKjg71lLvj0rDCZzIVUQ_0To-Q84_Vql7x94AFptk

 

[The Hodge]

OK.. I will give it a look when I've got less time ..
I thought it was simply a case of signing the authors petition ..

 

[StuE]

Bit of a misleading headline, it's a public footpath and bikes aren't supposed to be on it anyway, saying that I have ridden it and there isn't any real reason for not allowing bikes on it, but the same goes for thousands of footpaths around England and Wales (Scotland has a different and more sensible system)

 

[The Hodge]

Yes Stu ..well aware of its status ..I've also ridden it a few times ..what the article / author is asking for is a change from footpath to bridleway ..

 

[StuE]

Yes Stu ..well aware of its status ..I've also ridden it a few times ..what the article / author is asking for is a change from footpath to bridleway ..

Sorry it was a reaction to the original articles headline that you have linked to, their are lots of good reasons for upgrading that footpath and hopefully the National trust will help with that (could they make it a permissive bridleway)

 

[thebarber]

I thought it was a bridleway.
We usually stick to the road until the tarn but last time was from the stone circle (which I think is footpath)
There's a cracking bridleway from the top of honister slate mine track.
Drops yo down to gatesgarth farm .
I need to do more up there, just seem to get stuck with winlatter forest etc.

 

[Ken]

Normally Upgrading from Footpath to Bridleway or even Restricted Byway is a long and tortuous legal process requiring the submission of historical evidence to the Local Authority and takes years to reach a determination usually against objections from Landowners, Frequently the claim is eventually determined by The Government Planning Inspectorate. Seems unlikely to me that The National Trust would upgrade unless there was substantial supporting historical evidence.

 

[Mteam]

Seems unlikely to me that The National Trust would upgrade unless there was substantial supporting historical evidence.

That's the thing, this particular footpath has been used as a bridleway for decades with no objections from the landowner

 

[2WheelsNot4]

"Complaints by walkers"
What you are really talking about is probably between 1-3 walkers and they probably know each other.
I'd go riding there anyway and claim ignorance should anyone challenge you. If you get some walker scowling at you, it's probably one of those who has complained.

 

[Rostle32]

Ridden the bash a few times, and you always get the odd walker, who don’t acknowledge you, ignorant, or just a pain !! If the walkers get their way and it stops the Bash being a lakes classic, then bikers need to meet up in Keswick and on mass ride the section of road upto to ashness bridge, slowly and take over the road, causing traffic to wait, therefore causing walkers not to be able to drive to their chosen cafe for a bit of cake, etc! It’s OUR countryside for ALL to enjoy! Not just the salmon paste butty brigade!!!

 

[The Hodge]

and claim ignorance should anyone challenge you

Difficult to do that with newly erected signs at each end stating no bikes allowed ....

 

[2WheelsNot4]

Difficult to do that with newly erected signs at each end stating no bikes allowed ....

And should they disappear in the night they arent made of wood are they ?, kindling for campfires burns more brightly when made from such signs.
Metal ones look good on bike workshop walls, like the traffic cone you wake up with after a particular of heavy carousing

I feel sorry for the situation you have down south, where like the feudal estates of old, owned by the few are allowed to deny people a right to roam unhindered.

 

[thebarber]

Wheresthe signs exactly?

 

[The Hodge]

No idea mate ..just what I've read in the article

 

[SteveSSS]

Wheresthe signs exactly?

There wasn't one on the gate at the start of this section near Castlerigg but there is on the last gate by Ashness Bridge but by then you've just about finished. That was 4 weeks ago.