Protest Ride, July 5th 2008.

[grunter072]

Anyone from Melbourne going to this? Protest ride in regards to $56 TAC tax, front number plates, wire rope fencing, tolls....etc.

[markthebike]

No. Be in Port Douglas on the 5th.

[ozducati]

wish they would do one for Sydney...about all the crap we put up with here too... Melbourne a bit far sorry..

[Roadrunner]

Anyone from Melbourne going to this? Protest ride in regards to $56 TAC tax, front number plates, wire rope fencing, tolls....etc.

I heard about the front plate thing but what's the "wire rope fencing" thing about?

[ozducati]

Multi Strand cable dividers that they put along our roads, supposed to be "crash effective" for cars/trucks and slow them rather than a blunt force stop that a steel guard rail provides... problem is they shred riders..

[Roadrunner]

Ahhh, they have those things all over the place in Sweden as well. I was thinking about that when I was back there last year. That's gotta make for a nasty accident scene :puke

[ozducati]

i think they've been declared unsafe in every other country in the developed (& probably undeveloped) world, and the guvment still allows them here...

[10ninety8]

hey guys, i dont mean to post anything horrible but a guy here in tas hit a wire rope early this year.
his head in helmet was some distance down the road as was his torso and various other parts i believe.
its the first time for many years the public has been offered councelling for anyone that witnessed the crash.
wire ropes are bad!
strangely a lot further up the highway. like 60 kms a whole new section of this was installed!!:eek

[ozducati]

we've had the same here in Sydney... and they keep installing the shit..