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Motorcyclists swing into action as seasons open
As the horse trials and endurance seasons get underway, many organisers are once again turning to the motorcyclists of Trail Riders Fellowship to help them run their events.
The Trail Riders Fellowship (TRF) is a nationwide organisation that promotes recreational, non-competitive motorcycling on those byways and other routes that are still open to motorised vehicles.
Tasks carried out at equestrian events by TRF riders include score collection from the jumps on cross-country sections at horse trials, and course marking, demarking and rapid intervention at Endurance GB and similar events. TRF members volunteer for this work, but ask organisers for a donation to the funds of their local group, who work to keep rights of way open.
On a wider front, the TRF is this year celebrating 40 years of campaigning to keep important parts of Britains rights of way network open for all.
Sadly, this has not always been successful. Many routes have been made into Restricted Byways, which has in effect closed them to all motorised users. Some of these routes have become overgrown, and country people living on them have encountered difficulties in selling their houses because legal vehicular access to them is no longer an automatic right. Motorcyclists, who only ever had some five per cent of the unsurfaced rights of way in England and Wales open to them, now estimate that only about half that total is left.
However unfairly its members have been treated, the TRF remains committed to campaigning to keep the countryside open for all who wish to use it responsibly.
Whether they are assisting at a horse event or just out for a ride in the countryside, TRF members take a pride in minimising their environmental impact by following a Code of Conduct.
If you would like to find out more about the Trail Riders Fellowship, including how to enlist their help with an event that you may be running, visit www.trf.org.uk
As the horse trials and endurance seasons get underway, many organisers are once again turning to the motorcyclists of Trail Riders Fellowship to help them run their events.
The Trail Riders Fellowship (TRF) is a nationwide organisation that promotes recreational, non-competitive motorcycling on those byways and other routes that are still open to motorised vehicles.
Tasks carried out at equestrian events by TRF riders include score collection from the jumps on cross-country sections at horse trials, and course marking, demarking and rapid intervention at Endurance GB and similar events. TRF members volunteer for this work, but ask organisers for a donation to the funds of their local group, who work to keep rights of way open.
On a wider front, the TRF is this year celebrating 40 years of campaigning to keep important parts of Britains rights of way network open for all.
Sadly, this has not always been successful. Many routes have been made into Restricted Byways, which has in effect closed them to all motorised users. Some of these routes have become overgrown, and country people living on them have encountered difficulties in selling their houses because legal vehicular access to them is no longer an automatic right. Motorcyclists, who only ever had some five per cent of the unsurfaced rights of way in England and Wales open to them, now estimate that only about half that total is left.
However unfairly its members have been treated, the TRF remains committed to campaigning to keep the countryside open for all who wish to use it responsibly.
Whether they are assisting at a horse event or just out for a ride in the countryside, TRF members take a pride in minimising their environmental impact by following a Code of Conduct.
If you would like to find out more about the Trail Riders Fellowship, including how to enlist their help with an event that you may be running, visit www.trf.org.uk