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    Quote Originally Posted by oldrider View Post
    Seriously mommy, there are stacks of the real ones all over the place down here already. Cheers John.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    I had hoped that is what you meant...

    Too late... they are here (serious) will show photo's at a later time. The gorge is full of them...a few cages have gone into them, no bikes that I am aware
    Thank God for that! I know you have them. You dont know the half of it down there. These things are like mushrooms, appear overnight. I guess your smarty pants pic got me a bit jealous...LOL

    We too have the fences, we live rurally, but wait till you get the cheesecutter down the side of that beautiful road, for safety you understand. They will stop you running off the road. Then it will be down the middle of the road, incase someone crosses the centre line. Before you know it you will be WRB'd both sides, travelling at 60km/ph. It is all about safety!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mom View Post
    Thank God for that! I know you have them. You dont know the half of it down there. These things are like mushrooms, appear overnight. I guess your smarty pants pic got me a bit jealous...LOL

    We too have the fences, we live rurally, but wait till you get the cheesecutter down the side of that beautiful road, for safety you understand. They will stop you running off the road. Then it will be down the middle of the road, incase someone crosses the centre line. Before you know it you will be WRB'd both sides, travelling at 60km/ph. It is all about safety!!
    The "theme" of the thread, (maybe) was a little smarty pants... Thats just me with my sense(or lack of) humor(???) But what are those things on the side of the road in YOUR profile pic ???
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    Thumbs up Wire can be useful - story.

    Good one FJRider.
    Coming home through Hyde in 100 -120km/h + winds after one Brass Monkey I was hanging onto a CBX 750 at about 30k . . . 35k . . . 30k. Talk about dangerous, when a Suzuki rider whizzed past at least 45k, real fast!
    Infront of my eyes his bike was lifted off the road into the water table. He ended up leaning up against the top barbed wire and the only damage was a slight nic on the shoulder of his leathers!
    So these cheese cutter do have their uses. If it had not been there, he would have fallen over!
    I couldn't get off my bike to help him back up to the road, so I waited 'in irons' head up into the wind until some caged persons arrived to help!
    He had a funny walk when we gave up, parked our rides behind the Middlemarch tea shop, right up against the wall where the end two BM's had been blown off their centre stands! Spent a pleasant two hours drinking coffee and chips. Greatt ride home when Huey turned of the big fan. Cheers
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    Now all we have to convince is 120 mp's.....easy I've used fence wire as a tow rope by a bike for a bike I had (suzi...explains a lot) once. must be No. 8 wire (multi purpose tool kit)
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    The "theme" of the thread, (maybe) was a little smarty pants... Thats just me with my sense(or lack of) humor(???) But what are those things on the side of the road in YOUR profile pic ???
    A huge rumble strip? Seriously I dont really know what they are. That is quite a tight corner, down hill and off camber. I think they are there to direct any surface water off the road in heavy rain to stop erosion of the shoulder.
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    yup nice pic, where's ya flyrod leaning on the Cheese Cutter ... oops sorry back yard fence.... gee's some people think every thing with wire is dangerous......... O more snow next time please
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    the funniest thing is that people will still complain about them even after they have slid 10m off the road to hit the damn thing. Cant help some people - they seem to thing the world should be bubble wrapped around them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by slimjim View Post
    yup nice pic, where's ya flyrod leaning on the cheese cutter ... Oops sorry back yard fence.... Gee's some people think every thing with wire is dangerous......... O more snow next time please
    you want snow.......
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