Club Arnage

I had this link sent to me this morning from one of the groups I belong to.
If any of you are bikers or offroaders it will interest you.
There is a campaign at the moment with the weight of the Ramblers Association behind it to restrict right of way to basically anything other than them on byways, RUPP's etc.
This basically means that if it goes through, should you at anytime in the future fancy a bit of enduro, trail, trial or any other form of offroad bike riding, quad, 4X4, you are screwed.
This is mostly aimed at a very small minority of youths who rip up and down lanes on nicked bikes and the irresponsible few who just chew up the lanes, but the campaign backed by the might of the Ramblers Association (and obviously politicians after votes) is going to f**k it for everyone.
Groups such as the TRF, BMF and MAG are starting to gather force but it most likely going to be hard fought ground as we are very much in the minority here.
Any one wishing to show there support can do so at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/G446

Cheers to anyone who wants to support this, and fight the forces of oppression.
Rusty

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No more Green Laneing ??

Voted . Cheers for the heads up rusty.

Grrrr! Shakes fist at screen!

These bastards are nothing but fascists, out to control every aspect of your life. It's the same with identity cards, smoking, foxhunting, binge drinking, cannabis, phone tapping, on the spot fines, speed cameras, money laundering regulations, you name it. You can't even now legally change a light fitting in your own kitchen, you're supposed to get a qualified sparks in to do it. Or mend a broken windowpane, I kid you not!!

These power-crazed fools won't be happy until they can regulate or control every aspect of your life, until you aren't allowed out to play anymore. Mark my words they'll have us all living on a strict diet of Coronation Street and worshipping at the foot of the altar that is the great God known as Soccer. We don't live in a truly free country anymore, of that there is no doubt.

That's the one son. These sad little people obviously have little else to do than f**k up other peoples lives when they are not attending church fetes and whist drives.

Here's a contrast for you. While riding back from Italy last summer, we stopped off in the Italian Alps at Sauze Doux. They celebrate there Mortocross clubs that much that they allow them to ride there bikes into the bars and do burnouts and donuts in the bar. Top marks for the sporting Italians. A bit fecking noisy and smelly tho, poo.

Rusty

I saw photos of this a few years ago in Andy Capps bar in Sauze. I thought then it was a pretty cool thing to do, but can't imagine it ever happening in the Red Lion or the George & Dragon. Bloody greens should stick to saving whales and such like. I was always thought that the countryside belonged to us all and as long as it did no harm to anyone it was open season. I watched the Clarkesons Motorworld episode about Iceland again last week and those people really know how to enjoy their countryside. >:(

Voted!

This pisses me off big time.  More red tape meddling political bullshit from twats in suits in big cities trying to f**k up a simple country pursuit like riding your motorcycle along a minority green lane.

We've had fox hunting banned, what next for the country way of life?  We've already had townies moving to the country and complaining when Farmer Giles spreads pig sh*t on his fields and the cows moo too loudly.

Arable fields are mowed and turned into golf courses.  The ordinary Joe farmer has his margins and livelyhood squeezed by the big supermarkets so that they can "pass on the cost saving to the public" whilst maximising their own profits.

Then the fields and lanes are overun by the "Ramblers Association" exercising their 'right to roam'.

Well, I'm going to exercise my 'right to drive my noisy V8 engined car across your f**k*ng manicured lawn'.

Done.

Done I tottally agree with everyones sentiments the whole country is going mad. You can't do anything these days without someone moaning about it.

I ride astandard bike up to the cat and fiddle regularly and never go above the daft 50 mph limit up there as plod are hiding round every corner and still managed to get stopped have my numberplate measured can checked etc. and everything isstandard. when asked why stopped your bike sounded noisy, well it would it runs on petrol not electric.

The thin end of a very large wedge.

I have voted for 'my' way of life.

D.A.

As a foreigner I shouldn't interfere in UK politics but I couldn't resist.

Well spotted Rusty.

If this battle is lost the next one might be to save riding motorbikes on the road. Be prepared.

exactly dont think that is too far away either judging by the article in MCN on wednesday. On how if the europrats get there way it will be easier for a 16 year old to get a piolets license than a bike license.

Time to invest in a aerodrome i think!!

Or prehaps a business making spoilers, 'go faster' bits and sound systems for Cessna's

The larger picture is that this can extend as is quoted several times above.
Eurocrats and the like have tried it before with bikes and tried to impose power limits, thankfully unsuccesfully,so far.
Special ,modified and one off vehicles haved also come under close scrutiny and there have been threats regarding aftermaket parts and non-standard equipment so beware. this could ultimately affect many people on this forum.
Look at the speeding debate as well. Public enemy number 1 so the MP's, Feds and the self-righteous say. Hmmmmmmm. Speed lmiters and satellite tracking might sort that.
It doesn't take a lot either, again just a friendly vote hungry MP listening to large groups of non representitive busybodies wanting their moment of fame. Very dangerous conbinations at work.
Anyway, what the f**k gives this minority the right to screw with the rights of general joe public. The vote and the inaction of people either unaware or those not thinking there action will help.
WRONG. Vote now! Tomorrow it maybe you.

Rusty

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Where the hell will it ever end?

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i spent many happy days green laneing in the yorks dales and peak district on my XL 125 S and DT 175 MX, never caused anyone any agro in fact hardly ever saw anyone walking

we've always been a taget for the white middle class god fearing f**k*rs who litter the countryside in their f**k*ng gortex, brasher boots and cut off trousers with their little knapsack and their trekking poles - hope you trip up and break your f**k*ng legs, c**ts!!!!!!!!!!!!

my bike used to cause less damage than the w**k*rs who used to go hacking in fact,  most of the damage to the ridgeway, one of our longest green lanes, is by horses - ban them

What are we to assume from this Steve? Are you an advocate of the practice of persuing a small defenseless animal to the point of collapse, whereupon it is then torn apart whilst still alive, by a pack of dogs?

I'm no tree-hugger and I certainly don't agree with a 'moral minority' forcing their will on others, but I feel that anyone who thinks it is humanly ethical to do the above, in the name of sport or recreation is either an inbred lunatic or a soulless, sadistic savage.

If the fox is killing your chickens, shoot the f**k*r.  Shoot the f**k*ng ramblers aswell.

Can I take it you're a vegetarian then Matt?

Personally I can't see the moral difference between those nutters on horseback with big dogs and people who eat chicken raised in battery cages, which are farmed standing in their own deep litter excrement for six weeks, being pumped full of growth hormones just so KFC can sell meat cheap.

I know Steve keeps free range chickens, so I don't see him taking any lectures on animal welfare.

The bottom line is, there's things we like and things we don't like. It's all about freedom of choice and it's what these Nazis want to take away from us. One man's foxhunting is another man's green laning is another man's smoking. Divided we fall....

I do agree with shooting God damn pinko Ramblers Association people though.

Might have known you'd stick your f**k*ng oar in!
I don't believe that factory farmers do what they do for amusement.
That was the point I was stumbling towards.
True, I am a degenerate carnivore (don't eat veal or fois gras, however) - my personal viewpoint is that mindless slaughter for shits and grins is sick (bad sick, not good sick - like "Check out the sick rims on that Excalade, bruttha")

Now now Matt, let's be reasonable, I can see both sides of the argument here.
It seems Ron wants to cripple the ramblers and ban the horses, while you want to shoot the fox, the ramblers and pretty well anything else that moves.
I notice that the horses seem to be getting off lightly, so I suggest that while we're on, we should eat them. We don't seem to have burned or hanged anyone either, which to be quite honest, is a bit of oversight if you ask me. I humbly suggest starting with the ACO development committee.
And if the ramblers are busy f**k*ng, quite a feat round Stonethwaite - you'd have a limp for a week, let them finish before nailing them, it's only humane, after all, the poor little goretex buggers have probably rambled al day just to get a bit of peace and quiet. If the fox is f**k*ng the chickens, then it's a case for Norris McWhirter, or Vanessa Feltz.
And if the fox survives the chase, and the hounds and the gun, then bollocks, put some sugar in the little f**k*rs generator.
H  

Barry - Top Banana! - laughed so much my sh*t turned blue.

Harry - as eloquent and corrupt as usual. I found horsemeat quite palatable, as a matter of fact. I think the jumped-up nobheads in the red coats and jodphurs, should be made to eat the f**k*ng fox - the c**ts.

I've never f**ked horse, let alone f**ked one to death (except once, when I ran one over that has escaped from a field, it was pretty f**ked after the XJ had been through it).  So I suggest a compromise.  We could take dead horses to France with us, they certainly wouldn't go to waste.  The French seem to have a refreshingly different attitude to fluffy animals, and  I'm looking forward my first French barbecue. I'll have £10 each way on the steak and its three faults for a refusal.

Anyway, if you ask me, half the problems in this country occur because there are not enough people chained up in the stocks being pelted with eggs.

I knew this would come down to rimming in the end.

Say, Julie, whadaya say to a little bit of all around the world...
H

if it become forbidden, just drive 10 minutes south from the circuit to the next 4wd trial and speed track  8)

soddin hell you're just so civilised

green laneing, hunting, shooting, NO health and safety, wine, entrecotte (steaks) that really are worth eating

don't give sh*t about world opinion, cheap houses loads of land

motorways and roads go in straight lines

mediocre cars (R laguna) still can't have everything

why am i here  :'( ???

Signed it.
What could this lead to Le Mans with electric vehicles with restricted top speeds. Alcohol free beer. Barstards.

Signed it too!

Horses? Ate some of one once in a Fench Army NAAFI in Germany after a big NATO exercise, tasted good to me, but not a likely dietary supplement for ever. Won't find me on the back of one though..
Chicken? Ate some lots of time but I hate the crappy stuff, how about let's get the doo-summatters banning that instead of green-laning?
Fox? Never ate any (I hope, but I have eaten Muckdonaldses occasionally,so who knows!) but after smelling road-kill foxes, yuck they stink...
They also do kill for fun, quite like some of us ain't they.
Ramblers! The only rambler to do it for me was good old "Rambling Sid Rumpo" (Someone ought to explain him to our cousins from abroad, maybe) The rest of them, well pass me the rifle after Zarse has finished with it, I'll buy the bullets...


Ooh arr, where was I? Oh yes voted with OUR Moral Majority. I wasa getting quite carried away there, we should do this again sometime.

Bill

 :D

.303 was always my favourite

This is a typical CA thread, what started off as a serious topic has truly turned into the funniest thread I have ever read on this forum. I have been laughing out loud for the last 10 minutes, my colleauges must think I have gone completely f*****g lulu.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Chris, have you got any AK47's?

Those f**k*ng foxes need teaching a lesson after they offed 8 of my chickens.
The bastards got over the chicken run fence and decapitated 3 of the poor buggers and left the corpses behind.
My wife wasn't too keen on making chicken broth from them though :'(
The remainder were eviscerated, disembowelled and generally traumatised - and then left behind for me to shovel up the remains.  The foxes didn't even eat the chickens, just caused a bit of poultry mayhem.

Those that survived were deeply traumatised and had to endure a lengthy session of counselling.  Even now they're laying square eggs.

It would appear that the foxes are just as bad as the dandys in the red coats and the ramblers pushing through my laurel.  Lets shoot them all.

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Sounds like a lot of intolerant bullsh*t on this thread.
If the ramblers association are supporting this then that is wrong, but most people who walk the countryside are not members of the ramblers association.

Walkers, horse riders, trail riders and off roaders should all be able to use these lanes. In fact all of these groups help to keep these lanes open by using them. Many endurance horse riding groups use trail riders to mark the routes for their events and contribute to the coffers of the TRF in return.

Slagging each other off, what an excellent way of letting the government get their way. Divide and rule, works every time.

Come on guys,  most of the Le Mans regulars I have met over the years have more intelligence than this.

Oh and by the way, Brasher boots are great for the miles of waking you do at Le Mans, especially if it p*sses down.

.303 will do for me too...
Good old number four rifle please.

Brasher boots? Sounds a bit technical to me all the miles of walking I do at Le Mans is in easy draining hiking sandalettes (Clarks thangs) so the water they keep threatening won't sit and give me trench foot. I expect they'll last another year...

BobU, this is the bestest site for random thought generating threads on the internet. I have managed to keep the office I have been allowed to work in in stitches for weeks on the strength of the Jokes thread. (Working indoors while waiting for a knee op)

Bill

 :D

Mr L. Enfield always made exceedingly good rifles.

Was actually thinking about my real favourite, made by Mr. Bren 8) 8)