I READ your article (Daily Echo, April 14) regarding the spreading of tacks on the road during the Wiggle cycle ride over last weekend.

I have now put two and two together as we were out on a pleasure cycle ride at the weekend and had punctures due to tacks.

We were coming down passed Braggers Wood, near Bransgore, against the flow of the Wiggle route. It is downhill and the lane is quite twisty and having a puncture in this situation is no laughing matter I can tell you. If children were with us who knows, what could have happened?

What makes people do this? It is such a random, uncontrolled attack on members of the public, such as us, just out for a pleasure ride.

Do these privileged forest residents think they own the forest and normal people should stay away? It is after all a national park.

This sort of random attack has implications for dog owners, wildlife and many other users. I don’t think this sort of thing does the cause of forest residents any favours at all.

DR HOPKINS, Christchurch