Following Mag's queries about quad-riding members, I've been writing a RoW column for Quad magazine for a few months now and before starting it I got chapter and verse from TRF head Honcho Andy Gerrard that quadsters are welcome as TRF members.
However it must be said that response to the column has included complaints that quad-riders who've recently joined the TRF (some apparently as a result of said column), have not been made welcome and even ridiculed by their local groups at meetings and ride-outs. Which I find very sad and, indeed, counter-productive: the TRF needs all the support it can get in its battles to keep green-lanes open, and shunning the riders of low-impact quads is no way to do that.
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