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15-04-2009, 02:10 PM
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Fiat POWAAH!
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Western Australia
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I'm a little perplexed with this article, I cut it out of my local paper today to share here and get some thoughts on it.
It appears to me this old bloke is just looking for something to complain about. 
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15-04-2009, 02:27 PM
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Pity the fool
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Wait Awhile
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So in other words, it actually hasnt become a hoon issue, this stupid old thinks it will, even though he has no evidence to prove it, and wants his A4 sized piece of glory in the local rag.
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15-04-2009, 04:00 PM
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LIKE A BOSS 351
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Gold Coast
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If it becomes a first class drag strip, it will become a great place for the copper to stake out!
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15-04-2009, 04:06 PM
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Lucky, lucky bastard!
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Sydney, NSW
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Slow news day? Give the guy a shovel and suggest he is more than welcome to dig up EVERY SINGLE BIKE PATH that is directly attached to a road in Australia...sigh...if he ever goes to China and sees all the bikes and cars in the same lane he will have a heart attack!
99% of that artice was 'He said' this and 'He said' that...not an ounce based on fact or evidence...just some guy having a whinge...definitely a nothing article! This quote cracked me up the most: "There is nowhere else in town where you can drive on the footpath" Yes...thats generally the idea!! Also, who the hell has time to walk around with a measuring tape measuring the width of bitumen??! If he isn't worried about lying down on the side of the road making himself obscure to measure some concrete while cars are flying by then it can't be that dangerous? Gah...
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15-04-2009, 04:08 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cattai, Sydney
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You shouldn't be riding a bike on a pedestrian strip. $50 fine - someone go get him!
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15-04-2009, 04:09 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Haven, Adelaide
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lol they where probably hoons back in there day, but back then it was just called kids playing around.
i say get back to ya garden gramps you riding out in public is probably a hazard to other road users.
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15-04-2009, 04:30 PM
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Fiat POWAAH!
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Location: Western Australia
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Most sane people would applaud such a thing because it keep bikes off the road.
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15-04-2009, 05:11 PM
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Gramps shouldn't worry about Hoon Car drivers there.
He should be more concerned about the Hoon Cyclist that terrorising the pathways these days. |
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15-04-2009, 05:22 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: "THE GONG"
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He must be mates with that guy Harold Scruby.
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15-04-2009, 05:31 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne, VIC
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Looks like an excellent spot for a drag if you ask me. We should be petitioning the local council to install safety runoff areas ad the end, doner kebab caravan parking with metered power supplies, port-a-loo installations and tarpaulin covered seating plus solar powered traffic lights.
It would create jobs and be good for the environment when the tarps capture rain water on top, the farts from the kebabs are captured under the tarps to power the doner kebab caravans and the traffic lights don't need power at all. Talk about renewable, sustainable fun! Work has already begun with these 2 old farts standing around.
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15-04-2009, 05:35 PM
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"There is nowhere else in town where you can on the foot path"
Doesn't he get it? We aren't driving on the foot path he's riding on the road. The road is a place for cars. Don't really like the idea of a dual-use road it just encourages idiots on bicycles to use the roads which with the way the most of them ride and the way people can't cope going round them it's just asking for someone to be killed.
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15-04-2009, 05:42 PM
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15-04-2009, 06:49 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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recently in a large qld news paper it had "hoons who throw rocks of bridges to face possable jail" well can anyone tell me what is a hoon supposed to be or do?
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15-04-2009, 07:15 PM
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BFII XR6
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Lol were they doing burnouts while throwing rocks out there windows?
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15-04-2009, 07:47 PM
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Now that road has official media attention, the old man will find alot more people using it to 'hoon' on.
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15-04-2009, 08:44 PM
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Location: Newcastle
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Id love to see the comments people write in to the editorial section in tomorrows paper. Never considered a cycleway a 'hooning' spot. Maybe should get rid of the cycleway altogether as even with the narrower ones, the risk of 'hooning' motorcycles exist
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15-04-2009, 09:51 PM
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Location: Albury
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Seriously what evidence does he have to prove that its even being used as a hoon hotspot? He thinks it will become a hoon hotspot. Seriously i dont think this bloke has any idea what his talking about.
IMHO stupid.
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16-04-2009, 05:06 PM
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Location: Brisbane, QLD
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A strip of concrete kirbing along the path would separate the path from the road, just make it high enough so that cars bottom out if they go over it, you know the kind of things you see in carparks so you don't drive into the shop, put one of those every few metres
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16-04-2009, 05:38 PM
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Location: Blue Mountains N.S.W.
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5th paragraph left column :
'he said it was a long stretch & trees cast shadows on it' ...do the trees make you speed along the road now? What if we rip them out...can we race to our hearts' content?
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16-04-2009, 09:55 PM
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Ginja Ninja
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Location: Perth, WA
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c()ck head! nuff said.
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17-04-2009, 10:31 AM
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Peter Car
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Location: geelong
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Maybe he should volunteer to be a speed hump just in case cars do drive down it. Get to it gramps.
Obviously has nothing better to do. |
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17-04-2009, 07:09 PM
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Mot Adv-NSW
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lake Macquarie, NSW
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Plenty of do-gooders in OZ, so to lighten things up this small official MP3 re French motorway speed limits, in english.
http://www2.securiteroutiere.gouv.fr...2006_07_06.mp3
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