Newcastle Crash

cfsmtb

While you have my utmost sympathy for what happened to your wife (yes, you have mentioned this terrible incident before), I prefer not to live in fear and unnecessarily stressed by what ifs & maybes. We can take personal and professional decisions to create changes for the better or remain in uncertainly. I prefer to attempt to do something, either just keep riding and also advocate for improved conditions. My personal choice and I'll live with it.

Aeek

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:13:19 +1100, G-S <geoff@castbus.com.au> wrote:

>> Theo
>>
>
>Well... not all of it is you fault.
>
>I still maintain that the emu problem is you fault though
>
>
>G-S

cos of all the ones he missed?

G-S

Aeek wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:13:19 +1100, G-S <geoff@castbus.com.au> wrote:
>
>>> Theo
>>>
>> Well... not all of it is you fault.
>>
>> I still maintain that the emu problem is you fault though
>>
>>
>> G-S
>
> cos of all the ones he missed?

Yup... It was obviously Theo's job to control the emu population but he
stops half way through [1]


G-S

[1] Probably I should stop now too ;-)

G-S

TimC wrote:
> On 2007-12-12, G-S (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> Oh and yes despite this I still support the fitting of seat belts to
>> buses (which is why all school/charter bus purchases in the fleet I
>> manage have been belt equipped for the past 5 years). [1]
>>
>>
>> [1] Anyone know where I can source those bus bike racks Action Bus
>> canberra are using? They won't talk to us about them...
>
> I'm not looking forward to the school holidays. Our bus stops doing
> the double duty of taking school kids from the road to the observatory
> to and from school, and so we get the little bus instead for the 2
> month holiday period. The big bus has a nice boot in the back where
> my bike fits (and probably another one too). The small bus has a very
> tiny boot. I have successfully taken the bike on board, but it's not
> something I want to be doing 3 times a week. Maybe I have to start
> waking up an hour earlier than early, and ride up there as well.
>

Bike racks on smaller buses (and city buses without boots), are why I'm
interested. Larger buses with big boots or large underfloor bins don't
have such an issue.


G-S

G-S

Aeek wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:19:40 +1100, G-S <geoff@castbus.com.au> wrote:
>
>> [1] Anyone know where I can source those bus bike racks Action Bus
>> canberra are using? They won't talk to us about them...
>
> tried asking Pedal Power (ACT) http://www.pedalpower.org.au/ ?

Not yet, but I will thanks


G-S

Zebee Johnstone

In aus.bicycle on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:46:08 GMT
Jock <the-nospam-bloke@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Choose life without the risk or not.

Let's see... Cross country jumping, riding poddy calves in rodeos as
a kid, motorcycles including racing on dirt and tarmac, cycling to
work in Sydney incl. CBD and Paramatta Rd.

Guess I have chosen the risk.

I do note that in that collection I have certainy been injured. But
never in traffic. All my *own* fault.

Zebee

Theo Bekkers

Jock wrote:

> Bikes are not safe to be on roads in Australia when we have these
> crazy
> accidents due to morons with no idea.
> I am not blaming the cyclist, just saying the facts of deaths and
> accidents
> exist.
> Choose life without the risk or not.

You could go home, get into bed, and pull the blankets over your head. But
that's where most people die.

Theo

Theo Bekkers

G-S wrote:
> Theo Bekkers wrote:

>> Aye, but I had a poor unbringing, my dad left us when I was four, my
>> sister hates me, I was picked on at school.
>>
>> It's not my fault!

> Well... not all of it is you fault.
>
> I still maintain that the emu problem is you fault though

Why on earth do emus need to be camouflaged? With no natural enemies, and
only dying from old age and cars, why couldn't they be red, or fluoro
yellow? So I could avoid them. :-)

Theo

Terryc

Theo Bekkers wrote:

>
> Why on earth do emus need to be camouflaged? With no natural enemies,

umm, the word is surviving. You would not want to meet their natural eneny.

lemmiwinks.au@gmail.com

On Dec 13, 9:20 am, "Theo Bekkers" <tbekk...@bekkers.com.au> wrote:
> G-S wrote:
> > Theo Bekkers wrote:
> >> Aye, but I had a poor unbringing, my dad left us when I was four, my
> >> sister hates me, I was picked on at school.
>
> >> It's not my fault!
> > Well... not all of it is you fault.
>
> > I still maintain that the emu problem is you fault though
>
> Why on earth do emus need to be camouflaged? With no natural enemies, and
> only dying from old age and cars, why couldn't they be red, or fluoro
> yellow? So I could avoid them. :-)
>
> Theo

There was one standing in the middle of the road as I was descending
to the Snowy River the other week. It had 4 medium sized chicks with
it and they all stood out pretty well against the reddish gravel
road. It was even nice enough to hang around long enough so the other
two could have a look at it when they arrived.

Theo Bekkers

Terryc wrote:
> Theo Bekkers wrote:
>
>>
>> Why on earth do emus need to be camouflaged? With no natural enemies,
>
> umm, the word is surviving. You would not want to meet their natural
> eneny.

It was me! :-)

Theo

Graeme Dods

On Dec 13, 7:15 am, "Theo Bekkers" <tbekk...@bekkers.com.au> wrote:
> Jock wrote:
> > Choose life without the risk or not.
>
> You could go home, get into bed, and pull the blankets over your head. But
> that's where most people die.

It must be getting rather crowded (and smelly) in there then.

Graeme

TimC

On 2007-12-12, G-S (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Aeek wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:13:19 +1100, G-S <geoff@castbus.com.au> wrote:
>>> Well... not all of it is you fault.
>>>
>>> I still maintain that the emu problem is you fault though
>>
>> cos of all the ones he missed?
>
> Yup... It was obviously Theo's job to control the emu population but he
> stops half way through [1]

My cats do a very extremely good job of controlling the local emu
population. Do you see any around? No, because my cats are so good
at it.

--
TimC
Some of you know what the Perl slogan on Windows is, and you can say it
with me: "It's a good thing there's more than one way to do it, because
most of them don't work." --Larry Wall

G-S

Theo Bekkers wrote:
> Terryc wrote:
>> Theo Bekkers wrote:
>>
>>> Why on earth do emus need to be camouflaged? With no natural enemies,
>> umm, the word is surviving. You would not want to meet their natural
>> eneny.
>
> It was me! :-)
>
> Theo
>
>

This is actually true Terry (strange as that may seem


G-S