smokinrider wrote:
And if this old boy hadn't been so stand offish at the younger members on their enduro type bikes and had shared his wealth of knowledge with them and encouraged them to show an interest in the ROW stuff rather than them just riding, the lanes, then the TRF and those groups would have been stronger for it.
When I joined I was drip fed the maps over a 6mth to a year period as the old duffer didn't want to cough up the info and would rather restrict my knowledge, than encourage me to take an interest. In the run up to crow and nerc us keen younger riders were basically told we didn't know what we were talking about and the old guys had it in hand. Cheers. Look how that panned out.
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If I recall what actually happened in the run up the NERC it was that the Chairman of the TRF was lied to to his face by the then Secretary of State for DEFRA. This led him to tell us there was no need to submit any more DMMOs or canvas our MPs (I had offered to produce all the campaign material for nothing).
We then had to lobby to get the Lords to modify the NERC Act...which they didn't do (unsurprisingly).