Devon TRF Group Forum

I see you point wacky.

If the public (if indeed they are watching) get used to the idea that we are indeed riding legal roads then it might help in the fight to convince the public that we have a right to be there.

I think lane is best word for the job - after all it is a lane, a green lane, although that word has also been caught up in the battle and will no doubt soon be a dirty word

So what say we simple refer to them as lanes?

Off road is used only for events on private land.

I know it's frustrating TJ but this sort of thing is what fuels the media and the public.

all i was doing was making an observation on posts.

the word off road cropped up, no one rides off road and i for one have enough trouble trying to convince people i know through various walks of life that i ride legally.
people dont realize there are un metalled roads out there, albeit mud, roots, rocks, puddles they are all un metalled with different classification!

if you ride the roads/lanes weather trf or not surely its nice to educate people who dont know what you do and put them right? and therefore it will pass on to others and hopefully build better relations with other people who aren't in our Hobie/activity?

all i was mearly saying if its posted up here as "off road" what chance as anyone got of trying to pass on the knowledge correctly or if reading these posts!

didn't mean to upset anyone .......

right i'm off to clean me bike
after riding it wed eve, greenlaning, rough roading, county roading, etc etc ......

roads are muddy, and have water, there are roots on them too, i ride all these but they are not off road they are on a county road.
why would it put people of joining the trf this is why they have joined to find the legal routes, and to find new people to ride with, thats what you do tj meet and encourage new people to ride with you and also join, then you explain to them everything you do is leagal - yes.



-- Edited by DHH at 19:29, 2008-12-03

Good point Wacky and it is in fact covered in section 34 of the road traffic act 1988 under "Prohibition of driving motor vehicles elsewhere than on roads".
 By saying we are off road we are in effect saying we are breaking the law. I don't know if I have said that I do in any post, but will strive not to in the future.
Cheers Rob
Link to road traffic act 1988 look at section 34
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1988/ukpga_19880052_en_3#pt1-pb8-l1g34

I think this is going too far now.

TJ - the problem is the inference. If we say "off road", no matter what we may actually mean by that it could be taken by others that we are actually going off road, which is illegal.

If you mean off tarmac then say that. I actually like the term off tarmac as it conjures up the image of a challenging surface to ride on and is an accurate description of a green road.