Why have another site listing the dirt bike trails in Ontario? Because the few that I found so far are either incomplete or not to my liking.
What's not acceptable? Here are a few hints:
- pages written black on white or similar shades are not acceptable to me. That's how paper is simply because it's easier to make! It is not good for the eye.
- just a simple text description - that's nice, but a picture is worth a thousand words and a video ... well, is that worth a thousand pictures?
- some charge for maps, well, I don't know about that. Not today, when all you have to do is turn on the GPS and just ride, eh?
- some charge a membership - nice revenue generation but is that really useful for the client? are there that many trails as to make it worth? nah!
- etc...could go on and on and on...
Plan your next ride
It is hard to figure out where to go riding our dirt bikes. How the trails look like. Is that one more interesting for this weekend, or the other one? I ended up spending hours searching forums and websites and in the end only have an incomplete picture of where to ride.
My simple use case is this: where should I go riding this coming weekend?
To answer that question, I simply want to look at a map of all dirt bike trails, see what's where and find out more information about each, i.e. photos, videos, other user's comments etc.
Other than that, I should check the calendar of events, to see if there's any that I'd like to participate in, coming up.
That's the aim of this new website: to fill this gap, organize information to make it easy to plan one's next ride. In the end we'll have as much information as can be had about each trail nearby.
Besides the trails, for newbies, we figured we'd find and map all local dirt bike clubs, to make it easy to identify the one to join. Also, the shops, dealers and stores to buy dirt bikes or accessories.
While searching the internet, we found some tracks as well. We're trail-riding oriented, but figured we could list the dirt bike tracks we found as well - not all riding is on the trail.
Keep it hidden?
There's some people out there that use loud bikes unrespectfully on trails and screw it for us, the majority of trail riders.
Some of them really think that 10 more decibels do give them 1 horse power. Well, besides the fact that you get more by messing with that wind box or the sparkly peaks, not to mention the screws in the wind pipe etc, they should keep those bikes only on the race track, where they belong!
Those that are not showing respect to the other trail/forest users are just the morons and the bullies that one would meet in the local Tim Hortons, cutting you off and just being loud and obnoxious.
Because of these pricks, there's many of us that would like to keep the location of the trails under wraps. Well, I find that this hurts us more than it hurts the pricks. It is hard to figure out where to go riding. How the trails look like. Is that one more interesting for this weekend, or the other one?
Why should I bother buying a (quiet) dirt bike, or plate it, or pay for insurance, and only go riding in approved places, if I don't know the approved places? If all I know is that I'll get chased by cops and get a fine anywhere I go?
...will continue this another time
