3 Rock Rockdropper - call to action!

This from our friends at MAD -

This guy is currently going haywire up in 3Rock (what's new there you say), and we can't continue to get annoyed without doing anything, so we need to go to the Garda in Stepaside with an official complaint, on behalf of both MADMTB and other clubs and users of 3Rock MTB trails.

So - this is what you need to do:
If you have been affected by the rockdropper's activities then you need to send me an email so I can collate all the input and present it to the Garda.

We strongly suspect that the majority, if not all, obstacles being placed around the Ticknock area are the work of one Tony Kirby from Dundrum who walks his dog up there weekday mornings around 9am.

We have first-hand testimony from riders who have seen him in action and who have been threatened by him.
There are photos of him in action, he has acted threateningly toward riders, myself included,
he has already been videoed by Niall Davis vandalising Coillte signs up Ticknock, he has also been nicely asked to stop his activity but he's worse than ever, so we need to get the Garda involved again and show how big and dangerous an issue this is by getting testimony from riders.
I will also be posting this on other clubs sites.

If you have been affected by this issue, you need to send me an email (fergal.kilkenny@gmail.com) with:

• your name
• address
• phone number
• description of what you have encountered/observed, photos or video most welcome too!

Make sure to include "rock dropper" in the subject of your email so I can filter them out easily.


You need to agree to be contacted by the Garda on the chance they want to verify the various emailed testimonys or get further detail.

See below examples of what you could provide as a description of your experience with the problem, there may be other issues too so make sure to include any other examples not listed below.

Please provide supporting details where possible (eg; times/dates/location/photos/any injuries sustained etc..)

Note - none of these are made-up! - these are all examples of what people have reported to me about what's going on, what I've seen from spin reports, what I've read from Facebook posts or what I have directly observed, a lot of you will have experienced such instances yourselves:

• I have personally witnessed him placing obstacles on trails.
• I have observed dangerous obstacles such as branches and rocks on trails.
• Some of the obstacles are so big (eg; boulders) that I have not been able to move them off the trail and make the trail safe.
• I have cleared away the obstacles for fear of some rider being injured, only to find the obstacles back on the trails soon afterwards.
• I have stopped or reduced my cycling up in Ticknock due to this issue.
• I have stopped my son/daughter from cycling up in Ticknock due to this issue.
• I feel my safety is directly threatened by the obstacles being placed on trails.
• I have observed dangerous obstacles being placed on blind corners of trails with the intent of causing injury
• I have injured myself as a result of colliding with these obstacles
• I have photos of the obstacles which have been deliberately placed on trails.
• I have been personally threatened by this person or he has acted in a threatening/intimidating manner towards me.
• The damage to trails/obstacles have coincided with me observing his car (silver Mazda 626) in the upper carpark.

It'd be great if you could email me within a week or less, as soon as I get a significant amount of testimony from riders, I'll call into the Stepaside Garda station with the info.

I might get a rep. from other clubs to call in with me too to add weight to the issue.

Remember, it's very important that you help us help ourselves and others by taking the time to send an email with your experience of this very serious problem.

Get typing.

Thanks.

Fergal

this is very good in theory and fair play to fergal for doing something however look at it from another perspective, the CIRA and drug gangs are shooting the fcukout of each other while a big bunch of young(ish),fit and healthy (mostly)men are complaining about an old man moving sticks and stones on the side of a mountain - do we really think this is high on the to do list. if we called into the step inn and met the gardai with hats off what do we think they would tell us to do ?

Are you not barred from the Step Inn?

am i ??

i think its richie you are thinking of

Richie was never let in in the first place.... you had your chance...

you will have to go to that so , just dont bring max dressed as blackie connors like he is on facebook !!

Unfortunately I can only see this resolved when someone gets badly hurt because of his actions and has witnesses to prove it in court. Otherwise it will always stay under the guards radar. We can't do nothing though so Fergal initiative is definitely worth supporting an everyone should make an effort to help him.

3 Rock Rockdropper - call to action!

I reckon if we catch him and tie him to a tree before setting Alfie on him he won't ever be back there again. Would you risk it? If u were him.

That sounds like a good start to the punishment ... I never new this guy was such a freak !! Does he just confront lone bikers or does he just let rip at every biker he sees ? If he drives a silver mazda 626 he was up in the Ticknock upper car-park today from when i got up there at 9:45 and was still there at 12:00 when i was heading for home i just remembered because it was the only car up there when i cruised up.. So be cautious if your up there in the morning .... I would imagine he was up to no good !!

Dear Garda
I do be ridining my Mountainbike on 3 Rock on illegally built trails in contravenience or whatever the right word is, of the Bye law that could get me a fine. A bad man is moving boulders on to the trails and making me get off and move them. I go very fast and even with the fancy fluid brakes I have on my bike , I find it hard to stop and I could crash into one of these boulders and take my eye out. If you could take some time off from getting police tips from Love/Hate and stopping cars in the Bus lane . Me and my friends tried holding hands and chanting and wishing the problem away but its not working so we'd really like it if you ignored the fact that we arent supposed to be up where we are and arrest the bad man, he has two dogs and he must be about 90..
My name is Joe C Whingebag and my address is
69 cumandget me street,
Loserville
Dublin

PS..I'm telling on the Horse riders who are up there too..they make an awful stinky mess of the place..

mr byrne you are out of order and you have gone to far i suggest you retract your statement and apologise - to the horse riders, there was no need to bring them into this !!

funny stuff Byrner! that's just class! ha ha

There were two hefty lads with a golden retriever/labrador pulling rocks down the bank and onto the track near the end of metro 2 today, very fast section so fairly dangerous, take care.....

WHats wrong with these ****s..are they multiplying by masturbation or what..two of them Brian ? did you not venture a " hey ****head what are you at ? " I find that kind of open hostility works a treat ! How come I never catch these f*ckers in the act !! I didn't do all manner of martial arts and killin people for 15 years for nothing..dying to kill somebody, anybody !!