Goldenstar
Well-Known Member
Agreed they shouldn't be there, but my point is, they SHOULD be on a bridle path. And as a horse rider, i'd rather they were on a footpath! Where i used to keep my horse there was a beautiful long canal path. Top section, wide and grassy, bottom section rutted with pot holes. Have a guess which was the footpath and which was the bridlepath. Yup, grassy bit for walkers, rubbish bit for riders. But because cyclists HAVE to use the bridle path, they put down some sort of hard tarmac type base right the way along, to make it a proper cycle path. So what happens now? Everyone walks on the bridlepath/cyclepath! And the footpath is left abandoned. So there i am, cycling along the cyclepath one sunny sunday morning, and some fat woman with a dog decides to have a go at me for cycling too fast...on a cyclepath! Well, i wont repeat what i said to her, but she got the shock of her life. I appear to have gone off on a tangent...but i can see both sides of this, and as a cyclist, yes we do trespass - we have to, in order to make the most of the beautiful countryside. But we are respectful with it.
OP - maybe a note on the style is the way forward? Or if its a popular route put some chairs out and offer to sell tea / cake, you'll make a fortune! : )
You don't have to trespass you chose to , you chose to enter people property for your pleasure when you have no right of access .