Greenlaning nr Guildford?

Not a lot. Good to see you popping in on a regular basis .

The Mad Hat Man said:

Not a lot. Good to see you popping in on a regular basis .

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Got to be nosy every now & then!
Sad to see nobody has been active on this thread and carried on the fun stories and photos on a regular basis!
Same amount of people using the forum still or have the Facebook pages taken a lot of the internet traffic?
Not relevant to the Greenlaning topic I know but the fact it’s been 3 years since the last post I’m not worried

It’s dying. A bit like local laning, really. I haven’t been out for over a year.

The Mad Hat Man said:

It’s dying. A bit like local laning, really. I haven’t been out for over a year.

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Guessing it’s just a small group of like minded owners joining forums like these nowadays?
The Facebook groups are full up of the same repetitive questions you’d normally end up replying to on a weekly basis on here!
As for the laning it is a shame. Has been ruined from how it used to be thanks to the idiots trashing them.
Working on a farm we have a WhatsApp group of all the local land owners/farmers/gamekeepers etc around your area near Basingstoke and the amount of trouble they’re getting from people on the lanes is ridiculous. They had two metal gateways smashed off last week where a permanent lane closure is. The local travellers use the lanes to get onto farmers grounds for poaching.
It’s an absolute nightmare. Gone are the old fun Sunday trips out.

That’s not good .

I'm still here now and then, since moving from Surrey to Sussex I haven't been laning and really miss it, it was my way if relaxation. Since moving the family has grown in both people and landys, I guess one side doesn't want to feel left out.

Look forward to laning again one day, well over due.

I think you’re right about a lot of forum users moving to Facebook. It’s given wider access to greenlaning, including to irresponsible users, sad to say.

The travellers use the lanes and fields for hare coursing, if it’s anything like our local ones do. Keep reporting it to the police.

I still pop into the forum from time to time, sold the Audi last year a got myself a Skoda Yeti 4x4 with the Haldex 5 system, supposed to be quite good off road, but I've been instructed that it's never to be used for laning.
To be fare it was brought as a tow car, and having been remaped to 200bhp it does that very well.

Well Ive got to keep this old thread going!..
Had my new bus for a few weeks now..
Won’t be doing any lanes with it I’m affraid, far too clean to be adding dents & scratches

Most of us have called it a day due to Covid and poor lane condition, Mine has been sorned for almost a year.

Yes a lot has changed over the last few years with lanes. Mine won’t be for anything off-road really except fields, just a second vehicle for the shop run and an investment! Defender prices seem to just to be going up & up! Sold the disco 4 for a good price whilst i could, the price has just been dropping away like mad with them!

Miss the old days of getting out and about on the lanes, must have been about three years since I had a drive in them. One day I’m sure I will again but not exactly an essential journey at the moment.

Doesnt help that my laning buddy Snifflebags is no longer with us

that looks lush max!

Yeah i havent done any lanes in ages, only done about 1000miles in the defender in 2020