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Oaks status?
NB: Originally posted elsewhere on the Global Riders Network and appears via syndication.
Planning on catching a train to Woodford and riding down the Oaks tomorrow morning. I've just read on fb the firetrail has just been graded. Does anyone know the area of affect?
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Its the great sandy desert from iron barks to the oaks gate, coming down the single track you will miss it.
I don't know what they are thinking, twice in around 1 year they have done this but it doesn't improve the road at all. It's a hard slog all the way up to the gate.
Mt Portal was done as well.
Cheers Stephen
Talking about making things worse while trying to fix them, the Gosford Council/local NPWS resurfaced a number of fire trails over the last 18 months or so (in and around the Central Coast) with baby head sandstone, made perfectly good riding into a real challenge in some sections.
Has this happened anywhere else?
I've noticed it around the northern beaches as well. I guess they don't wash away as easily.
I don't mind it so much when they use it on areas that have a history of not draining so well but they make it hard on steep climbs and sketchy on descents.
Not sure what Baby head sandstone looks like but a steep track at Woodford Dam was covered in Ballast. Before it was regraded it had a metre deep erosion rut running down the middle of the trail.
Loose round rocks about the size and shape of a baby's head. Not a problem if you're going straight and slow but tricky if any degree of force needs to be applied that can make them roll (climbing, braking, leaning in a turn) ...
Ah - Isn't that what MTB is about, never being quite sure what's around the next turn.....but still hooking in anyway.