Stromlo closed by asbestos

I can see a good reason why the release would not want to
mention mountain bike riders. The asbestos was easily visible
before the track was built. For the past nine years the pieces of
fibro on the track have been continually ground up by the riders.

There is probably not much danger to solo riders who leave a
dust trail behind them. But consider a 24 hour race with groups
of gasping riders enveloped in a thick dust cloud. That does not
sound very healthy, even in the absence of asbestos.

darkmilk said :

That release is amazing … those are mountain bike trails, key words which have been left out entirely!

I dunno, I’ve been riding out there and come across walkers and runners too. While the majority of users are MTBers it is hardly a drama that they didn’t mention them. Otherwise the release might say, “the trail is closed to mountain bikers, cyclocross riders, runners, joggers, walkers, unicyclists and anyone else who chooses to use it”.
Lighten up – they found an issue and seem to be moving on it pretty damned quickly.

I rode through there last weekend. Didn’t see any ACM, but did see a couple of bits of the trail had some decent holes wearing in recent times, so I guess if there is something dodgy buried there, that would uncover it.

I saw some tool scoot under the parawebbing and continue up Red Rock Lookout last night.

An alternative detour might be to do a left u-turn at the top of City View and take the fire road up onto Mt Stromlo Rd – that way you can continue to the top rather than descending the fire road all the way to Luge. It would depend on how far Tall Trees is closed as to where you could rejoin the singletrack. You can always keep going right over the summit past the survey mark and take the fire road down to just before Echidna Gap.

That release is amazing … those are mountain bike trails, key words which have been left out entirely!