Vic Fires

If 4x4s with massive tyres keep wrecking the tracks ... expect more gates, they are fire tracks & fire appliances have to have full access, not get stuck because some idiot with boggers had to keep driving back & forth through a muddy section.

The stock reply that it's the standard vehicles doing it, because they are less capable is absolute cr@p, it would be impossible for them to dig trenches that deep because they would bottom out.

I totally agree with Shaker on this one. Its the idiots that spoil it for everyone in every form of recreation

Hmmm - sounding a little familiar to post #30956

Shaker and Robnicko,

This issue is being ignored and poo-pooed by a proportion of the 4wd community, and locked gates will be the end result. I believe that there is a place for these types of vehicles, but National Parks, State Forrests etc and not the ideal places - private land with purpose built tracks (like where they hold comps) are where they best belong. I agree that large aggressive tyres will cause more problems than standard tyre shod vehicles would, generally speaking. On some of these tracks, standard vehicles wouldn't get past the first knarly section, so they can't be the ones chewing the rest of it up!

Ron Moon wrote an article in 4x4 Aust a few years ago calling for 33's to be the largest tire size permitted on public land tracks etc, and I think that, while it is not palatable for those with comp vehicles, it is the only sustainable way forward. Whether it's enforceable is another matter, but I believe that it is up to the 4wd peak bodies and the clubs to realise that this is a problem that is getting bigger, and that there are more and more vehicles with tyres much larger than 33's that are more part of the problem than the solution,

Andrew

I just read post #30956; I don't want to open that can of worms, so I'll say no more. Obviously, I'm wrong.

Andrew