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Not banned, but big changes with the effects of the CROW act and the recent NERC bill. It would take an eternity to explain but.....................

BOATS and certain UCR's remain legal.

Any dual status UCR or RUPP will be down graded to its lowest staus.

Although DMMO's (definative map modification order's) may change the staus of certain lanes.

Its far too big a story to really condense down but DEFRA and our wonderfull goverment have listened to a lot of very misleading propaganda from the likes of the Ramblers Association and various NIMBY's. There are currently around 5000 miles of legal trails and 150,000 miles of footpaths but that doesn't keep Janet Ugly Street Porter happy. Ramblers also have the 'right to roam' in certain areas which upsets a lot of landowners.

The Faber Mansell study concluded amognst other things that bikes don't do that much damage in comparison to farm vehicles, 4x4's or even thousands of walkers on parts of the Penine Way.

Sorry but i'm trying to avoid MEGA RANT MODE

IMHO the NERC bill is very unfair, but hey, if Blair can invade Iraq on dodgy grounds, or ban hunting, not give Leo the MMR (alledgedly), he certainly doesn't care about a few trail riders