The Tamsin Trail ascends Dark Hill, Richmond Park
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The Tamsin Trail ascends Dark Hill, Richmond Park
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 3 May 2012
The Tamsin Trail was laid out in the 1980's, in an attempt to contain the activities of mountain-bikers (the mountain bike being a fairly new invention at the time). It was not foreseen that the gravelled surface would prove popular with folk pushing baby-buggies and the like - inevitably giving rise to friction between the various users. As a cyclist, I'm not keen on the gravelled surface - grip isn't that stable on bends, gravel chews up all but the toughest tyres, and if you fall off, sharp gravel is about the last surface you want to land on. Richmond Park is a National Nature Reserve.
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