BudLeach wrote on 02/22/17 at 1:59pm:
Just playing devils advocate here... The USNWC makes more money off the oblivious trail user who goes out there a couple times a year and buys a day pass, than they do off someone like me who buys the annual parking pass and goes out there ~50x per year to use the trails.
I want the place to be successful too, because that means more trails. But lets be honest, while the mountain bike community might be some of their most frequent guests. We don't exactly contribute a huge amount to the financial success of the USNWC.
Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad. In the case of the USNWC, the good far outweighs the bad. If you want to go somewhere out in nature, where you don't have to deal with trail newbs, there are places for that.
If you want to go somewhere you can shred singletrack, ride ziplines, do ropes courses, climb rock walls, whitewater raft, then grab some good food, and enjoy some beers while watching a free live music performance... USNWC.
I don't know about you, but every time that I go somewhere else to ride because the place is going to be too crowded is at least one fewer $9 beer that they sell.
Harry Balsagna wrote on 02/22/17 at 7:28pm:
You mean to tell me in all these comments about this topic not one mention about Thread trail has been made? Unnnnnnnbelievable. Riding at WWC on a sunny Saturday in February is like skiing at Sugar on a sunny Saturday in February. You're not going to get anywhere fast. Gotta just accept the newbs clad in denim and Starter jackets.
I used to have a legit clown horn on my bike, that was the best for alerting other trail users i was coming. Now i have a speaker mounted on the handle bar playing hip-hop or rock which serves a similar purpose. There's gonna be people that are oblivious or just plain dicks, be it at WWC or sitting in rush hour traffic on I77 or waiting in line for a beer at ..uggghhhh.. Sycamore.. is what it is. Pretty much everyone i know with the club is the 'bigger man' type so if we can deal with I77 at 5:30 on a weekday or Sycamore at 3 on a Saturday, pretty sure we can deal with some jackwagon riding a mongoose wearing sandals and hacking up a lung in the middle of Lake Loop.
The Thread trail is a spot that could benefit from signage. It's one of the few two- way trails that we have in the area and suffers from conflict problems as a result.
I guess this response is indicative of why I didn't see any action when I suggested it last year and a sign that I should probably not expect anything and take my riding, and beer money, elsewhere.
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