I did Narrow Neck with my wife on Sunday. Had a good chat with a couple of MTB riders we met at the end . It turns out one of them works for SCA and review trail access in the Area. We had a friendly chat , and out of curiosity I asked him what was the main issue with MTB access versus hiker access. Here is what he said:

1/ MTB are not necessarily more damaging than hikers, but they are more numerous and go further. He said on some week ends the Oaks can see some 400 riders. With higher traffic comes:
2/ Higher risk of fire
3/ Higher risk of pollution ( ie going to toilet).

Just got a call from Blondie telling me that as she was driving to work this morning she passed a bloke who had unloaded an unregistered moto off his ute and was preparing to ride. This was at the bottom of the Oxford Falls DH runs.
there is absolutely NOWHERE to legally ride a moto there, let alone an unregistered moto.

I am posting here as I am not sure what actually should be done...

It's not NP as far as I know?? and the fuzz seem not to act on this quickly enough...

Keep an eye out for an article in tomorrow's SMH summer section.
The snippet suggests quite a story and creates some suspense. May be nothing but looks like it might be a riders v's walkers/residents debate.
The picture assigned to the snippet has an MTB rider with a Bike Addiction jersey....
Wonder what this story might be about and whether we will see any of our reps interviewed?
My guess, something about Manly Dam.

Craig

Announcing MTBSSN - the Mountain Bike Strategy for Sydney North!

This idea was born following from the NPWS Sustainable Cycling and Mountain Biking Workshop with NPWS staff and many cycling organisations from the Sydney North region and further afield.

This site has been created for the user consultation and planning phase of a project that will hopefully become, or add greatly to the overall mountain bike strategy in the region. It isn't just for mountain bike riders, but for anyone with an interest in trails in the region. Even opponents of riding are encouraged to take part in this consultation.

If you do not take part in these discussions then when things start moving, perhaps in a way you don't like, then you (no matter what side of the argument you are on) will have no-one to blame but yourself!

As I'm assuming most people reading here will be riders please take a moment to visit this site and add your ideas that will become part of a 'trails wish-list'. It doesn't matter how crazy, how unlikely your idea is, just get on over and post it up anyway. Of course it would help greatly if when posting you explained why the idea is a good one, from user, community and ecological point of view. Also consider the ease of construction and maintenance and sustainability of the idea (ie. straight down a fall line of a steep hill would be a big no-no: too easy for water to channel and cause errosion).

Hopefully the more ideas the community comes up with, the more likely it is some of those ideas will be found acceptable by all parties involved and some of them make it all the way from planning to acceptance and eventually implementation. Well - that's the dream, let's try and make it happen!

One last note: because the MTBSSN site is built on the same platform as NoBMoB, if you have a login for NoBMoB it will work on MTBSSN so there is no need to re-register to get involved.