ridiculous petrol prices

[hARDWARE]

Always thought they looked like a bit of fun.

I thought i'd gotten the hang of riding after couriering in Sydney and doing GoldCoast-Syd-Melb rides without incident but riding a couple of k to school and I manage to destroy myself.

[MattC]

Aha, so you do know how to ride then! It is amazing you did not do your injury as a courier. Those guys really push the envelope in traffic.
Biggest hazard I have found on the road is cars - bloody mongrel things!!! They must think that the own the roads!!! I was hospitalised twice and went through a bike a year for ten years (sometimes two), all paid by someone elses insurer (each at $6k + in todays dollars!!!).

My next bike is going to be a trike - maybe power assisted. Not a Greenspeed though - too expensive by about a half.

Cheers

[hARDWARE]

Only had one small stack as a courier and that was over a step I didn't see in a dark alley. No cars involved.

Those cars can be a menace, but then so are half the couriers!

[MattC]

Those cars can be a menace, but then so are half the couriers!

Too true, but there are a lot more cars around.


I cannot see high fuel prices reducing the number of cars on the road. It is amazing to sit back and watch the number of people driving into the CBD (of any city) with only themselves as company. People will complain, but will never change their habits.

I live in a town that is around 3km from one end to the other. No need for a car around town. Work is 6km down the road which I do in about 9 minutes - at the end of the day it is about 15 min to get home (tired). I put fuel in the old beast 3 or 4 times a year - hence the reason for not knowing exactly how much fuel cost here atm.

Cheers

[MattC]

 BTW, about 15 years ago, I hit a courier at about 45km/hr (on my bike). She had just stuck a foot out from around the front of a parked truck. I hit it full on with my skinny little 19c tyres. Needless to say she was not doing much for a while.

She was an old friend from school