Green Laning

good call, petition signed, never know when they will try it in your area

 

At 190kg or so the Tenere is a better road bike than trailie, too heavy to keep picking up !

 

The Trail Riders fellowship is a good organisation to join, they make a point of keeping members upto date with legislation etc and also make a point of riding as many green lanes as possible, a green lane ( i believe) only needs to be ridden once a year to allow it to keep its category of a B road.,

 

As long as the usage is documented and can be proved...
Doesn't stop local councils trying to close them anyway, unfortunately...

 

http://ducatiforum.co.uk/f18/trf-picnic-park-peak-district-national-park-17772/

For anyone "up north"...

 

in reply to some of te earliest messages some people might be confused as to whata green lane is, a green lane is classed as a road and you have to have an insured and taxed vehicle to drive along it. it will normally say unsuitable for motor vehicles at the start. the problem is that people drive down these lanes in untaxed vehicles and damage them and the councils want to close them, im we all take care to do as little damage as possible there isnt a problem, me and my dad often go green laning in his 4x4 its great fun.

 

yes commonly known as "BOATS" byways open to all traffic" and " unmetalled roads" basically look like farm tracks etc , but you need to be road legal to use vehicles on them, yep great fun, you can find these routes on your councils definitive maps , but getting on a local groups rideout if the best option

 

few more shots, 1. a byway on the edge of a farmers field, 2. a byway across Dartmoor nr widecoobe on the moor, 3. Dartmoor/grenofen woods

 

Lopwell dam ?

 

yep first one JR , one of my favs ; )

 

Total convert to green lane riding on my WR 250 even though I'm still crap at it and crashed again.....got soaked last weekend.

 

theirs a perfectly good bridge right next to you look. :tongue:

 

good video, been doing it 7 years and rare I don't have some kind of mishap lol, shocked how bad the lanes have been washed out the last month or so, good fun though, kev

 

Have a look at the WR250R fuel injected 250, long service intervals, valve check at 26k. It's a great bike !

 

i think this winters done it for me, gonna get another trail bike, i had a klr250 up to a couple of years ago for pissing about on, theirs been a few days this winter i would of been up the forestry or down the beach just to give that itch a little scratch. maybe a crf250.