OMV - Very Professionally Done !

thats how I feel I am riding..

... when the track is being heavily used, but it clearly wasn't at the time the vid was filmed. I could see one other rider off in the distance, but wasn't looking too hard.

Would have been a fair bit of room while I was there today as well. At the pace they were travelling, neither the rider or the dogs would hold me up

Probably more issues involved with doubling back to retrieve the camera after some of the sequences.

Yep Winco was there and was slowed by the dog(s). Saw that. I was the other rider in the background on the vid - was on the new green trail doing laps and saw enough to disturb me. Firstly there was a young boy and his Dad joining Turkey Royale at the pump section beside the fire trail at exactly the same time the filming was being done and I watched Oli ride backwards up the trail from the lower big berm, when he had no idea if these two other riders were in the vicinity (which they were). The dogs were clearly having a great time but out of control. Glad there were only the 4 of us down there apart from Oli and vid operator and dogs.
If you're going to ride backwards up a blind and hidden section, the least you can do is post a lookout at the top. Who knows who's joined the trail in the last 10 minutes?? The traffic on this popular trail is now constant although varying in number of riders; no-one can assume anything.

Great vid, but i also don't agree with the unleashed dogs on such a heavy traffic trail such as OMV.

I was riding OMV on friday arvo, & had a very near miss with these 2 dogs as they bolted the wrong way up the south side loop. I narrowly avoided them but it was very close & to be honest I wasn't all that impressed. Lucky i was able to veer off the trail into the scrub as the dogs bolted straight past me.

I had a word to the owner & he laughed & thought it was a joke. I pointed out the sign which says no unleashed dogs. He continued to ride with the dogs. The trail was moderately busy.

Im glad i didn't encounter these dogs on one of the wooden bridge sections, it would of ended badly.
As we know, there is very little runoff in many areas @ OMV.

Lovely skills and beautiful edit but somebody has to remind this TURD that rules are rules......I bet nobody here wants to lose a trail because someone thinks they are above the rules...

Hmmm so this was not the first time Oli's dogs have enjoyed the trail. So...let me get this right: mike95 was forced off the trail into the scrub?? Whose trail is this? Scrub is OK maybe...drops off bridges or into outcrops is bad. Just lucky, Oli. You're a great rider. Do yourself a favor and play with your lovely dogs in a park somewhere that unleashed dogs can have a ball. And mike95 - don't be so shy. You have right of way.

Moto X this ...Moto X that......

Incoming trail ban this ....Incoming trail ban that......

But we had fun while it lasted.....

I'm with you VC.
Rode OMV today although not with the same finesse as Oli.
Happy to share my trails with a couple of of trail hounds, and in fact I normally do, rather than the motoX bikes I usually have to contend with at RH.
Well done to the trail builders and advocates. Well done to Oli and Davisuals also.

Hi all, thought I might pop in and share some of my thoughts regarding this whole she-bang.

Let's go from the top.

Oli spoke to me on Monday morning and asked when we were gonna shoot next. He had suggested OMV and asked if I wanted the dogs as a part of the shoot. I thought it was a cool idea and went ahead of it asking if we could shoot late in the afternoon for better light. Oli insisted that we go earlier in the day to avoid the crowd. We arrived at 1.30 in the afternoon and as far as we could tell, we were the only people there. I was interested in the new track and checked out the board that's been erected and nowhere could I find a sign for no dogs. Perhaps I missed it completely but as far as I could tell and, I would assume, as far as Oli was aware dogs were allowed. We shot the upper part of the track initially and still there was nobody there. We then continued further down the track getting to the interesting stages. We spent a long while on the first corner after crossing the road as we shot photos and videos there - still no site of people.

I'm not sure if there is a name to the corner but the large 180 cambered corner (at 1.04 in the video) we first ran into somebody. I'm not sure if it was Wilco or somebody else. I recall Oli apologising a couple of times and grabbing the dogs to pull them off the track. Whomever it was responded with "No worries" and then continued on. Blah blah blah... [shooting and not bumping into any people....]

At the pump track we were looking at leaving as it was looking ominous with thunder. We saw the Father and Son riding and they had shot off infront before we started filming behind them. I'm not entirely sure Twitchtrail had seen that was so disturbing. I can't recall either Oli or I running into anyone else.

For what it's worth - regarding the interruption to other riders - surely it's just as bad as catching up to a slower rider, it's frustrating, you say your "Thank You"s and you go past. I believe the issues created on the day with the run in's with the dogs was caused by the stop-start nature of filming sections. As you can see in the longer clips the dogs are generally fairly close to Oly and not veering off track in the way that they could get in the way of others. Obviously that's contested but as far as I have seen, that is the case.

It was never either of our intentions to cause a disruption within the community - it was merely to make a fun, light hearted video which could be enjoyed beyond the OVM users.

Hi davisvisuals
Your video was really well edited & shot. nice one!

I had my incident with the out of control dogs running the wrong way up the trail on the Friday. This vid was apparently shot the following monday.
I pointed out the council sign to Oli that says no unleashed dogs on the friday. There are 2 signs. One where you exit the trail on Quarry road & one further down the road near the exit of the south side loop. Regular issue council signs with no camping, fires, motos, unleashed dogs etc.

I guess I didn't expected a complete lack of responsibility when i told Olie of my near miss with his dogs & pointing out the sign that says no unleashed dogs.
To see him continue riding with dogs after I pointed this out was dissapointing. To then see a video posted on the web of this was quite surprising.

It was the first time I have ever had to confront a fellow rider about something I considered dangerous to other users of the trail.

Anyway, I hope others don't see this vid & think its a good idea to exercise there dogs unleashed around OMV.

Slow riders are predictable and don't ride the wrong way up tracks. You can also be 99% certain you won't get chased and bitten by a slow rider.

you should bring up rules - from the same 'group' of people who rode OMV well before it was opened and had signs saying it wasn't open and the same group of people who don't want to listen to the 'rules' then the trails are closed due to bush fires...

Have a look at AMB's Facebook page:-
https://www.facebook.com/AMBmag?fref=ts

Maybe the dogs could be taught to bark strava then there would be no problems! But there is plenty more than dogs to worry about while riding... It is bushland after all. I've come across a dozen wallabies and other critters while riding omv, ride in control and don't be so worried about your strava times and you will be sweet, plus the synergy guys who actually built the trail had a dog there all the time during construction, never heard anyone complain about him hanging out on the trail with the guys.

Very defensive about what they want to do with their children-oopps meant dogs sorry,sometimes cannot tell where the pet/child difference is these days!!!!

As I see it, unfortunately or fortunately, there need to be rules. I comute to work on my MTB using a shared cylcle/walking path and come accross a lot of people walking/jogging with dogs and a lot are not on a lead. It doesn't bother me, I just slow down and go around, it is a shared path and dogs ARE allowed, so I don't use it for any sort of training (though would be nice as there are some great little spots). Designated MTB trails are just that, and we like to get out there and go for it. I am a dog lover, have 2 myself and it would devistate me if I hit a dog on a trail, even if it was no fault of my own. So as dog owners, we must be responsible for where we take them, it's our duty of care really. There are plenty of places to run with your doggies, lets use those and stop putting all others at risk of hurting anyone.