The new trails at Horseshoe aren't open yet. But if you feel like volunteering, there is a build day there on June 12th from 9-2.
And it will be opening on July 1st.
Blue Mountain in Onterrible
some of those pictures make me smile, some make me wince, but if it gets people out on bikes it's all good.
Please let me demonstrate the ride around; really it's no trouble.
some of those pictures make me smile, some make me wince, but if it gets people out on bikes it's all good.
Part of the problem with building trails in Ontario like this is lawyers. Thsi is the land of the lawsuit.
Fuck you very much, James Leone.
P Fuck you very much, James Leone.
This?: http://www.nsmb.com/shore_news/beardwinter_04_05.php
Must have been one hell of a pot hole and yet it was on one of the easiest trails!?
Please let me demonstrate the ride around; really it's no trouble.
This?: http://www.nsmb.com/shore_news/beardwinter_04_05.php
Must have been one hell of a pot hole and yet it was on one of the easiest trails!?
Yeah, that fucking legal weasel. One of my buddies who rides the Don happens to be a lawyer. He wanted to use him as berm filler.
Has anyone heard what became of that lawsuit?
Has anyone heard what became of that lawsuit?
Nothing, he gave up. Though the damage has been done, made groups even more liabilitty paranoid.
Oh, and even the partners in his own law firm thought he was being a retard.
Nothing, he gave up. … Oh, and even the partners in his own law firm thought he was being a retard.
Good.
Nothing, he gave up. Though the damage has been done, made groups even more liabilitty paranoid.
From an old mtbr thread:
It's lights out for Ontario landmark
A group of volunteers who have toiled away for nine years to restore the 104-year-old lightkeeper's house on Flowerpot Island have padlocked the doors and left after being told they have to sign a lease assuming public liability.
"We're volunteers protecting and saving a part of Canadian heritage for the Canadian people so we shouldn't have been put in this terrible position of potentially being sued out of existence," said Garry Keast, president of the Friends of Bruce District Parks…
This stems from a $1.15 million lawsuit launched by Toronto lawyer James Leone naming the University of Toronto Outing Club as a defendant after he fell off his mountain bike on a ski trail the club maintains at Kolapore Uplands, near Blue Mountain.
Toronto Star
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