Local News - Leland Bike Proposal

Leland Bike Proposal Town Meeting.


I'd like to start off by saying that I was very disappointed in the lack of support by the Cape Fear Cyclists at this meeting. You would think that since the CFC rides several routes in the Leland/Town Creek area, they would have showed up decked out in their jersey's in support of this issue, but the were nowhere to be seen. As far as I know, the only two that showed up were Sir Bike's a lot, and myself.


It just drives me up the wall, to hear cyclists bitching about "their rights" but when there is an open forum for them to have a voice, where are they? Can you imagine the faces of the guys putting on the meeting to see 275+ local cyclist lining the walls because there were no more sitting room? It would have been awesome... oh well, maybe some day.

The Plan as presented sounded good for the most part. And the part that most interested me was the plans for a 990 acre tract of land dedicated to mountain bikers and equestrians. To think that we have almost 5.5 miles of trails on our 208 acres out at Blue Clay Road, imagine what could be done with close to a thousand acres? Whew...I'm in heaven just thinking about it.

So far this is just a proposal, and it lends itself more to the road cyclists, and recreational rider far more than the mountain bikers. It will be interesting to see how this all pans out, I hope to hear more about it in the local papers.

For more information, I'm sure Sir-Bikes-a-lot will do a much more informative write up on it, so check out his site to read about this and all other local cycling news.

see ya in the trails!
Sir-disappears-a-lot