Anakie?

[curtisrider]

does anybody know if the anakie track is still rideable.
just to go up and ride one weekend?

[S.]

It's on private land mate, ya can't go unless there's a race there.

[curtisrider]

and there a no more races there :cry:

[hardtail free rider]

yeh, they stopped holding races due to insurence or something. but if you contacted the owners of the property they might let you up otherwise you could go to some other tracks nearby like, hurstbridge, dandinong, granton well it depends where you live.

[S.]

yeh, they stopped holding races due to insurence or something. but if you contacted the owners of the property they might let you up otherwise you could go to some other tracks nearby like, hurstbridge, dandinong, granton well it depends where you live.

He lives less than 10km from you...

[inlina]

I think the last trials round was held there in conjuction with the motorbike trials, and I think GMBC was still using it for XC....so I don't think it's an insurance thing.

After the last race there, I heard that the owner was going to build on the area of the property that the DH course was on, hence no more DH.

It was either that or it's the fact that GMBC just doesn't have anyone to run DH races since Murray (Richardson??) and his family chose to take a backseat in the whole MTB scene. But he can't be blamed, he practically single handedly ran GMBC events for years, particulary DH.

CG

[hardtail free rider]

steve how do you know where i live?

[trobb]

It's completly finished. The inshurance just went through the roof and the guy just can't run in anymore

[bazza]

three words sum it up....INSURANCE SUCKS BALLS. i hate the bastards that trip over a crack and sue someone. they are the ones farking up the world. DAMN AMERICANS!!!! no offence to any half decent americans intended.

[duncan^kona]

thats really got to shit you i hate shit like that, damn bastards, cant they just say that like, if u hurt yourself its your own fault or something?

[inlina]

thats really got to shit you i hate shit like that, damn bastards, cant they just say that like, if u hurt yourself its your own fault or something?

Generally, everything you do is 'at your own risk', but even if you were to make every rider sign a 40 page waiver at the start of every run, there is still room for a judge to base a ruling on negligence.

A big part of the problem is that old fogie judges and juries don't understand what the sport is all about, and all it takes is for some smooth talking lawyer to convince them it was the land owners fault.

We need to move to a system like New Zealand, where if you hurt yourself, you get a fixed judjement, none of this multi-million dollar payout crap.

CG

[trobb]

Yer but who cares. if i opened up a park or something i would get people to sighn something saying that if you stack it's your own fult and people would sighn because they want to ride.

[inlina]

Yer but who cares.

That's just the problem, by saying 'who cares', you show negligence on the part of what the law calls 'Duty of Care'. Like I said, the most comprehensive waiver doesn't admonish Duty of Care.