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Eggit2:
There are some jumps near where I live that have been around for nearly a decade, but they are always neglected. No one has touched them in 2 seasons and all the lips were crumbling apart, the lines were rutted out, and they really sucked. Only one of the lines even ran at all, and it ran really bad.

Mu buddy has been going out there nearly every day for 2 months and has fixed up everything, mostly by tearing it down and starting over.


The jumps are super nice now, and he has started work on some new lines. The other day 2 kids who worked on them 2 years ago started showing up and trying to trail boss him. They were talking shit about how he fucked them up and he has no right to dig out there when he didn't build them (those kids didn't actually build them originally either). The kids got pissed up and called their buddies to show up for back up. When their buddies showed up one of them says "wow, these really nice." and the dickwad was holding his finger of his mouth trying to get his buddy to shut up.

So who is in the right here? My buddy for taking of some neglected trails and making them good, or some little punk kids mad that someone is poaching the spot they neglected for 2 years.

@ss4oLe:
Good question.

What is the statute of limitations on abandoned trails?

I say if a place has been abandoned ( and not just left tarpped up for the winter) they're free game.

It sounds like the kids that came back are acting like a kid with a toy. They play with a toy until their bored with it, then when someone else picks it up to play with it they act like it's their toy and they were still playing with it, etc.

I can't say who is right or wrong in this situation but running trails are far better than non running/abandoned/plowed trails.

trails rule.

hugh.:


Is he camping at the trails?

RighteousBMX:
I have some (much shittier) local jumps that were last maintained by me... if I showed up and they looked like that I'd leave and bring back a case of beer.

14thStbikes:
Your buddy is the man in my mind.
Neglected, non running trails are fairly obvious, and if he's worked them for months without seeing anyone else till now how could he know if someone would feel stepped on.

I say fuck the kids who showed up, keep digging&buildibg as you(your buddy)see fit

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