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Deeear o deary me! Hazza, you’re a hazard if ever there was one!!

If you ride a quad bike in Bamaga you'll get booked yet some club is driving dozens of quad bikes up the whole of the Cape, taking up all the road & disturbing the peace & quiet & inconveniencing locals.
It all makes sense, apparently because I haven't heard a single Greenie objecting to it.

wide strips outside of the white line that marks the edge of the road for vehicles and that can accommodate cyclists.
Ludwig,
Please stop making sense ! The proponents of nonsense will never get off here.

Ludwig, I loved the Paluma Range when I lived in Townsville, it's one of the great driving roads if you've got a smallish high-powered car that turns in well. Oh yeah, good fade-free brakes as well. It's hell on a motorcycle if you try to go fast though. Nearly all 1st and 2nd gear.

The logging tracks and backroads past Paluma are also great fun, but can be incredibly slippery.

Thanks for the memory.

Otokonoko, "I'm just not sure what comments you are expecting. Your tone suggests that you're expecting me to disagree with you,"

Sorry, not intended. I am open to ideas. I oppose more State intervention in citizens' lives. However there is a small proportion of road users who are poorly behaved and serial nuisances whether they are on bikes or motor vehicles. Then there is the general crime like home burglary that depends on access to a vehicle and bicycles are often used (but rarely reported upon).

There is a lot of arrogant stupidity that irritates. Such as the cyclist in bad weather who holds up traffic on a busy multilane carriageway. Then, after vehicles have struggled to pass him, the cyclist weaves a path to the front again at the next red light to re-start the process all over.

Oh, you're very right on that one, onthebeach. It's one of the many things that many cyclists do that just irritate me no end. I said earlier that it is invariably in cyclists' best interest to ride safely and courteously. I should have added that it's in society's best interest for cyclists to ride courteously as well. Cyclists, like people on little motor scooters that can barely hit 50, let alone 80 or 100km/h, need to be mindful of the fact that they (we) can't keep up with traffic and need to get out of its way whenever possible. When it's impossible to stay out of the way of traffic, I work on the principle that my route needs adjustment - not the traffic.