As you all know i have been looking for a place to ride with my family. It is near impossible to find a place to hack round legally with kids.
I have approached the owner of the wimple track that has agreed to open the track for a days fun riding.
He charges £450 for the day. Just wondering if there are other members that would be interested in doing some sort of family day out to help spread cost. This would be a great opportunity for kids and very novice mums/dads to ride round uncompetitively.
Great idea Andre, Im sure there's lots of people interested in getting their kids/girl friends/wives/husbands etc started in a safe and non threatening environment.
£450 for the family for a day seems a bit pricey. Would it include any insurance or on site injury response ?
I could be wrong but I got the impression that the new insurance package for TRF fun days covers unregistered bikes and unlicenced riders.
( Mario, our Nat TRF Chairman, was keen that his son could ride at TRF events)
If this is the case then a simple loop on flat ground could be identified and set up for novice riders, either as a seperate event or tacked onto a funday for all .....
Could you not bring them to the cotton farm event and just ride in the field bit??
No, its too late in the day to expect the risk assessment to be redone, submitted to national and approved and the necessary management put into place at the venue.
In the early days of fundraising before the National TRF got concerned about liability we did allow kids to ride around the car parking field but it turned out to be really dangerous ( and I am pretty relaxed about a bit o danger ) with kids ragging around in all directions flat out on MX bikes, mixing it with spectators and arriving traffic.
We had to tell the parents no and some were pretty pissed with the decision cos 'where can the kids ride otherwise'
The kids simply did not listen or take in the 'what to do ' information and obviously 'my little Jimmy can not be wrong' when we attempted to get the 'responsible adult' to sort things ........
When my lad was starting to ride we were fortunate to have access to a bit of waste ground that was locally known for unofficial riding. As long as there were no complaints the police left us alone, but I was never completely happy about him riding round burned out cars, steel girders, etc, and an oval soon got a bit boring. We moved on to a hillside site after a while but the cops weren't happy so that was that. So it was on to MX practice tracks and paying to ride. In hindsight that was better anyway, as the tracks were more varied, there was first aid on site and we met like minded people not just oiks ragging old bikes round a field.
So which tracks can kids ride at in this region?
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