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Originally Posted by the white rabbit
That would happen I am certain even if you could pretty much ride where you like. The chances are many of those bikes being ridden there are not even road legal.
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I agree that you'll always get kids on scramblers riding across commons/parklands, but I think the reduction in access to legitimate trails/greenlanes has certainly made otherwise law abiding offroaders think "***k-it" and ride in places where they wouldn't have previously.
Why go to the hassle of making your bike road legal/getting a van to transport it to the nearest trails if you're going to be prosecuted for riding there anyway? Far more tempting to just ride it over any offroad area near you if there's comparatively little chance of being caught. I know some lads who have adopted this attitude who would previously have taken bikes to trails in a van and have even chanced riding non-road legal bikes the 2-3 miles to nearby fields.