Mic
01-20-2003, 12:04 AM
Hi there,
as some of you may have noticed, I'm from Germany and I've forwarded some ideas concerning the building and maintaining of North Shore-type stunts and trails to my local city council.
At first, via email, but when things got a bit more "sound and safe", I prepared a written kind of portfolio describing what I am up to, the main problems which I think need attention and some pictures from the NSMB gallery and the trail building tips from the folks at NSMBA as a back-up.
I had the meeting last friday, and I've spent nearly two hours there. I talked to the person already in control of planning a net of trails together with a Bikepark similar to the ones already found in the South of Germany (www.bikepark.net).
The person has collected some material already, has the maps that show which area is designed for building/which one is restricted due to endangered habitat and who is on board this project.
The general idea is to enhance and improve "Mountainbike-Tourism" from the big cities that are quite near to "our" place. We are living on the fringe of the most populated area in Germany, check a map, it's in the Middle-West, in the province of Northrhine Westphalia (hope that's correct spelling in English :S)
One person that is part of this group is a guy that hs his own MTB-school, teaching everything from basics to Hardcore Freeriding.
Since my ideas are limited to a certain area, and I even highlighted the parts where I want to build stunts and trails on the maps, I will probably be the responsible person for this corner.
The biggest problem is that there are a lot of politicians on board that do not really have a clue about Freeriding - therefore I prepared that portfolio.
The contact person is pissed off because everything takes sooo fucking long, typically German.
The next steps will be for him:
Forwarding my presentation, speaking with the individual Departments, i.e. Forest, Land and
Recreation (all different....say "difficult"),. After this, he will contact the persons owning the land I want to build on.
As usual, I have mentioned all the probable and most likely points of conflict: Considering the use of the forest of other groups, that is hikers and riders, the circumnavigation of designated "game reserves" (where the little animals have some relaxation) and wilderness areas - and the use of dead wood, NOT living trees and the like.
I think that it will only be a matter of time since I can send you guys some pictures from the building and riding of the trails.
I want to thank ALL the folks here on the BBs, Cameron for maintaining that site and keeping it up and running (and for having written that article on the Shore, it's in Trail Tales...take a look), the nsmba for having some very useful links even if you are not living on the Shore.
Nsmb really is THE e-zine covering my favorite type of riding, and I sincerely hope that everything will work out fine.
Without the links, ideas and input from others and the pictures, my idea would never have gotten THAT far.
THANX EVERYBODY :woot:
Happy Trails wherever you are ;)
Mic
:germany: but :canada: is the place 2 be....:rocker:
as some of you may have noticed, I'm from Germany and I've forwarded some ideas concerning the building and maintaining of North Shore-type stunts and trails to my local city council.
At first, via email, but when things got a bit more "sound and safe", I prepared a written kind of portfolio describing what I am up to, the main problems which I think need attention and some pictures from the NSMB gallery and the trail building tips from the folks at NSMBA as a back-up.
I had the meeting last friday, and I've spent nearly two hours there. I talked to the person already in control of planning a net of trails together with a Bikepark similar to the ones already found in the South of Germany (www.bikepark.net).
The person has collected some material already, has the maps that show which area is designed for building/which one is restricted due to endangered habitat and who is on board this project.
The general idea is to enhance and improve "Mountainbike-Tourism" from the big cities that are quite near to "our" place. We are living on the fringe of the most populated area in Germany, check a map, it's in the Middle-West, in the province of Northrhine Westphalia (hope that's correct spelling in English :S)
One person that is part of this group is a guy that hs his own MTB-school, teaching everything from basics to Hardcore Freeriding.
Since my ideas are limited to a certain area, and I even highlighted the parts where I want to build stunts and trails on the maps, I will probably be the responsible person for this corner.
The biggest problem is that there are a lot of politicians on board that do not really have a clue about Freeriding - therefore I prepared that portfolio.
The contact person is pissed off because everything takes sooo fucking long, typically German.
The next steps will be for him:
Forwarding my presentation, speaking with the individual Departments, i.e. Forest, Land and
Recreation (all different....say "difficult"),. After this, he will contact the persons owning the land I want to build on.
As usual, I have mentioned all the probable and most likely points of conflict: Considering the use of the forest of other groups, that is hikers and riders, the circumnavigation of designated "game reserves" (where the little animals have some relaxation) and wilderness areas - and the use of dead wood, NOT living trees and the like.
I think that it will only be a matter of time since I can send you guys some pictures from the building and riding of the trails.
I want to thank ALL the folks here on the BBs, Cameron for maintaining that site and keeping it up and running (and for having written that article on the Shore, it's in Trail Tales...take a look), the nsmba for having some very useful links even if you are not living on the Shore.
Nsmb really is THE e-zine covering my favorite type of riding, and I sincerely hope that everything will work out fine.
Without the links, ideas and input from others and the pictures, my idea would never have gotten THAT far.
THANX EVERYBODY :woot:
Happy Trails wherever you are ;)
Mic
:germany: but :canada: is the place 2 be....:rocker: