Wolfgang
I listened to a couple of papers on mountain biking at the IBG
conference at Kingston/Surrey January 1998. I seem to remember that
at least one of the presenters was based at Leeds. I thought
that in Geneva there was an active ressearch organisation looking
into cycling - Velocity I think...Also the DETR in the UK are
undertaking some work on this area primarily for on road use however.
Sorry I can't find the proceedings for IBG98 but maybe others can
help - am ccing this to the forum.
Gavin
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 10:56:41 +0100
Subject: Studies on off-road biking?
From: Wolfgang Zierhofer <[log in to unmask]>
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Reply-to: Wolfgang Zierhofer <[log in to unmask]>
Dear all
The progress of bicycle technology and the marketing has triggered a boom
of off-road biking in Switzerland and other countries. Within the last few
years bikers have become a major element of our forests and alps, provoking
new conflicts with pedestrians, riders and disturbing wild animals.
Does anybody know of studies, which analyse the variety of problems, and
which evaluate related measures like planning routes, installing parcours,
campaigning, legal regulations and so on? Let's see what actually has been
done on a specific question in the field of "geographies of sports".
Many thanks for all your contributions!
Wolfgang Zierhofer
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