The Teeter Totter Drama Continues

Started by TiBones, Feb 22 2012 11:41

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Poll: The Teeter Totter Drama Continues..... (24 member(s) have cast votes)

Did you ride the Teeter Totter when it was on the Spruit?

Yes and Fell Off (1 votes [3.85%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 3.85%
Yes and didn't fall off (14 votes [53.85%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 53.85%
No, used one of the alternate river crossings. (9 votes [34.62%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 34.62%
All of the above (2 votes [7.69%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 7.69%

Do you think that the Teeter Totter

Improved your Spruit riding experience? (18 votes [75.00%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 75.00%
Detracted from your Spruit riding experience? (0 votes [0.00%])
Percentage of vote: 0.00%
Didn't ride it so no opinion (6 votes [25.00%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 25.00%

Should people be encouraged to add obstacles/challenges along the spruit, as long as they are not on the main track?

Yes (18 votes [69.23%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 69.23%
No (2 votes [7.69%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 7.69%
There should be a central body to advise on positioning etc (6 votes [23.08%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 23.08%

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#1 TiBones

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 11:41

For those of you that remember the now infamous Teeter Totter on the spruit, below DHL, a few questions as this issue will not go away.....

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#2 Pain or Shine

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 11:55

Interested to know what the issue was/is??
How many complaints/injuries??

Enough to warrant a body to manage?

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#3 TiBones

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 12:05

A few complaints, one serious injury. personally don't think it needs a managing body though - just feeling it out.

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#4 Devide

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 12:05

As far as I could tell there was a body to manage it, apparently it was called "common sense". Even met a few of the members of the body, can't remember all their names but "check before you ride", "if you're not sure, take the alternative line" and "know your limits" were definitely in the group....

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#5 TiBones

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 12:10

Hahaha, yip, great group - they are still together, keeping trails safe throughout South Afica.

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#6 DJR

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 01:52

Devide, on 22 February 2012 - 12:05 , said:

As far as I could tell there was a body to manage it, apparently it was called "common sense". Even met a few of the members of the body, can't remember all their names but "check before you ride", "if you're not sure, take the alternative line" and "know your limits" were definitely in the group....

I've found these two guys are sometimes absent from my own personal mtb safety management body. They are then respresented by a proxy member called "delusions". It always end in tears!

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#7 Wayne Potgieter

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 02:06

Do you know what "health and safety" was reffered to in the old days?

COMMON SENSE.

Out of the night that covers me,Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance.My head is bloody, but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLooms but the Horror of the shade,And yet the menace of the years,Finds and shall find me unafraid.It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.