Vote Now for the NSMBA!

 why can't you make your own trail? nothing's stopping you

 Other than many tight land laws and regulations, never mind Health and safety, land owner’s permission, equipment & Insurance etc... - Thats why there are so many Illegal trails, that get built, then destroyed * Oh yeah and I have voted guys *

 No one said it would be easy adrenalinaddict. These people have to go through the same loop holes and hardships to build trails that you find to be too much of a hassle. I had to go through them as well for 1 1/2 years before I could touch dirt in the hills outside town. You just need more dedication.
Anything worth having is never easy to obtain.

 we just build shit anyway land laws or no land laws haha

 I think what adrenalinaddict is trying to say is that, in Canada and the US there is a lot more open land than here in the cramped UK, there are not many places left where it is suitable to build trails that will easily be seen and torn down. That's what it's like round here.

 This is whats great about canada . In ireland some random construcuion company that dont built mountainbike trails got 100,000 and theyre gonna build a horrible wide and flat xc track. Were not allowed build our own trails because they got knocked down and all the good trails are in the middle of nowehere with no uplifts because they block the roads with gates. Even though there is plenty of land and if they can build XC they can DH they choose not to .Voted also.

 The problem in the UK is that there is not enough riders, and enough space to make trails a high priority for local councils. Due to the lower demand, they don’t give a shit. Trust me, I have tried contacting them, they always give the same answer. Sorry but we cannot allow the construction of mountain bike trails on our land due to the high health and safety risks and the dangers that are associated with this ‘aggressive’ type of mountain biking (anything that features an obstacle designed to make the rider airborne). The one time I did make a bit of progress ‘loads’ of dogs walkers objected to the development of a cycle trial, unfortunately we are not short of dog walkers locally. Perhaps my local council are just not willing, unlike say other Councils in Wales etc... I guess there is a lot greater demand over there (and a lot better landscape). The highest chance that you can build something permanent is that you build it without the council’s permission, then hope that they don’t mind, or don’t consider the cost of removing the trail to warrant the ‘danger’ it poses to the public. Unfortunately there aren’t enough riders locally for us to try achieve something like the NSMBA. Best of luck to the NSMBA though!

Note to all UK trail builders: Don’t let my rather depressing speech put you off your ideas – It’s my local Council that are my problem, there rubbish!

 UK is selling off a million acres of forest. Start a petition to buy some then you can do what u want with it.

 I would, but the forestry areas for sale, aren’t near me at all, and there is in total no more that 20 or so riders locally who would apreciate a gravity orientated trail, oh wait, there aren’t many if any hills nearby either - Hampshire sucks, I moving to Wales or Scotland! or the Alps!

 no private landowner in the UK wants people riding on their land due to liability laws - if you injure yourself on someones land, regardless of whos fault it is, it is the landowners responsibility. on top of buying the land you need insurance as well and that requires some measure of organisation.

 Agreed with DanB25 - It costs WAY to much to establish a trail in the UK Especialy a FR/DH style trail....Shame

 why dont we have more votes there are alot more than 1000 people on pinkbike

 That link needs to be better placed or bigger!

 Nice work on the blog but ditto on the link comment. Can you edit it to put the link at the top?

http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf5480

 Tom - that's about the going rate for contractors. The builders would have to pay their own expenses; insurance etc

 We are way behind guys. Show them the power of pinkbike. lol

We have almost 500 votes right now - current top spot has 1368

Edit: I had to give 1 vote to the save the salmon project as well, seems like a good cause. As long as that one school doesn't win a new playground (thats the first place entry right now) Not that I'm against them having it... but I think the school should be fundraising for stuff like that... thats how my old elementary school did it.

 Invite all on Facebook and email!

 f*ck the school's playground, WE WANT A NEW PLAYGROUND. Our's will be better. Can we get a swingset too?

 OMG WHERE DO I VOTE??!!?!AHH!!!

 Lol, you gotta sign up first.

 remember you can do it every day

 Suicidedownhiller - everyone wants teeter totters

 voted!

 That's now 2 votes from me. That damn playground is at 2000 votes now! But we've slightly closed the gap already.

 even autism and cancer are losing to that school

 they need to put this at the top of the news feed again

 for sure

 Cheers Lee! Someone's gotta take up the slack while you're Thundering through the South!!!!~