By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
A POPULAR bike club has been forced off the empty roads of a vacant housing estate.
Melbourne Drift Trikes has been temporarily shut down by Cardinia Shire Council which has cited a breach of the Road Management Act as the cause of the suspension.
Club members have been riding trikes on paved roads off Pakenham Road for the past 18 months, but the activity was recently suspended by the council.
Drift triking is a ‘gravity’ sport whereby participants ride three wheeled, non-motorised trikes downhill.
About 18 months ago, several groups of trikers, who had been regularly using the unused Pakenham hill, came together to join Melbourne Drift Trikes Incorporated, which is now one of the largest drift trike organisations in the world.
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