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Glad to hear I'm not the only cambell hater here. His way of trying to put the heat on the people he's interviewing is as someone else said: ask a fuckload of questions as fast as you can with no break in between and then call them out for not answering. No idea how he got his own show.
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I know you aren't critizng offroaders in general but I was just saying its different having to arrange a trip to go to a ride rather than roll out of the shed like we can on road bikes. But sure, doing it when you are 5 mins from a big track is stupid. Personally I think its nice some times to go off a beaten MX track with a few mates and just pop wheelies and screw around doing what you want.Originally Posted by cs363
I haz a bieks :D
Apologies to the OP on the changed subject, as of late.
YUS I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE!
I don't even watch him. Watched him once.
-Smug
-No real talent, bar overenthusiastic
-Covers relevant topics
-Twists to what the majority of viewers want to hear
Idk. I'm tired, gotta be on site at 6am tomorrow.
Enjoy tomorrow, ride safe.
Some people just can't seem to comprehend that they do not have the right to be unoffended in their lives.
Unexpected Spanish inquisition
Hey, don't get me wrong I have dirt bikes as well as road bikes and I don't have an issue with people riding anywhere they like - as long as it's legal/with the landowners permission etc. We have it so good in NZ compared to most other countries, but we have to remember that in the blink of an eye we could lose access to places we now take for granted, just because of the thoughtless actions of a few numbskulls - and that really pisses me off!
Excessively noisy bikes and clowns that do go to events/bike parks etc but choose to race around the car park or up and down the road are equally as bad too FWIW.
rant ends...
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Yea I see what you're saying and its all fair enough.
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- Clearly there are some folk on here who haven't got over the loss of Paul Holmes and John Hawkesby.....
- the 3 story was pretty poor reporting. To say the ladies husband was hit by a motorcyclist. Then state he was riding a quad bike was a low shot. Then to let the whole story go on about his injuries and she goes on to say riders need to be aware of other users when they put on their helmets. And the big sub note. Turns out said husband wasn't wearing a helmet. Some one should complain to the broadcasting standards people.
- a friend has been issued a notice down there to his personal vehicle. Him and two kids on off road bikes. He parks the trailer at the end of the metal road and they unload and ride off. The notice points out they cannot ride unregistered and unwarranted vehicles on the beach. Ping! his kids are now effectively banned and he's been put on notice that next time it's a fine. They normally ride north of the estuary, trhough the dunes and into the forest. Bit of a bugger really.
- Many of the shots taken by camera were optical illusions making the bikes seem closer than they were.
- When the girl got killed at Dargaville, which was tragic, by a rider with no light in the evening in poor light the ARC announced the next day that they had been concerned for sometime about bikes at Muriwai. My recollection is that the fatalaties at Muriwai over the years had all bee vehicles. Talk about knee jerk response. I have to wonder if the guy at ARC is just someone who has that "bikes are dangerous mindset".
Oh and to those slagging off John etc. You need to realise he is a voice that you can communicate through. To sit there and slag him off doesn't get the bike story told. I am aware that the media can distort stories and the wording in that story was sensationalised.
It's a real shame that you can't ride up that beach with your kids. So if a kid rides, say my 9 year old on a KLX110 does he get a ticket? for riding an unlicenced and unregistered bike, and for not haivng a licence. Beaches and dunes are made for off road bikes.
I wonder how far up the police will patrol over summer.
Personally I think it's a bit over the top and unwarranted. The beach has been used by vehicles for what 80+ years. They'd be better posting the speed limits and getting people to pull their heads in.
What about a higher speed limit even further up the beach for recreational vehicles. The 30/60 limit seems a bit slow.
The pied piper
What you need to realise is that beaches are public roads, therefore all the vehicles on them require a wof and to be registered and the person using the vehicle needs to be licensed to do so.- Clearly there are some folk on here who haven't got over the loss of Paul Holmes and John Hawkesby.....
- the 3 story was pretty poor reporting. To say the ladies husband was hit by a motorcyclist. Then state he was riding a quad bike was a low shot. Then to let the whole story go on about his injuries and she goes on to say riders need to be aware of other users when they put on their helmets. And the big sub note. Turns out said husband wasn't wearing a helmet. Some one should complain to the broadcasting standards people.
- a friend has been issued a notice down there to his personal vehicle. Him and two kids on off road bikes. He parks the trailer at the end of the metal road and they unload and ride off. The notice points out they cannot ride unregistered and unwarranted vehicles on the beach. Ping! his kids are now effectively banned and he's been put on notice that next time it's a fine. They normally ride north of the estuary, trhough the dunes and into the forest. Bit of a bugger really.
- Many of the shots taken by camera were optical illusions making the bikes seem closer than they were.
- When the girl got killed at Dargaville, which was tragic, by a rider with no light in the evening in poor light the ARC announced the next day that they had been concerned for sometime about bikes at Muriwai. My recollection is that the fatalaties at Muriwai over the years had all bee vehicles. Talk about knee jerk response. I have to wonder if the guy at ARC is just someone who has that "bikes are dangerous mindset".
Oh and to those slagging off John etc. You need to realise he is a voice that you can communicate through. To sit there and slag him off doesn't get the bike story told. I am aware that the media can distort stories and the wording in that story was sensationalised.
It's a real shame that you can't ride up that beach with your kids. So if a kid rides, say my 9 year old on a KLX110 does he get a ticket? for riding an unlicenced and unregistered bike, and for not haivng a licence. Beaches and dunes are made for off road bikes.
I wonder how far up the police will patrol over summer.
Personally I think it's a bit over the top and unwarranted. The beach has been used by vehicles for what 80+ years. They'd be better posting the speed limits and getting people to pull their heads in.
What about a higher speed limit even further up the beach for recreational vehicles. The 30/60 limit seems a bit slow.
If people want to use their dirt bikes, off-road vehicles or any such device that does not or can not be used on a road in a legal manor they need to do it out of site of the law abiding citizens who are at the beach to enjoy it for the purpose of the water and land coming together.
Why not go to your local rugby ground and pull wheelies and hoon around, its a larger open flat area that would be suitable for such an activity... but then it would just make the people who ride responsibly look even worse again.
It only takes one idiot to ruin it for everyone.
The use of beaches are of a big concern to councils and it is a slap in the face when there is the "sandpit" just up the road for motorcycles to use and people are still riding around the beach.
Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
Nope. Complete fuckwit who showed his true colours on the very first night. Remember his "interview" with Dennis Connor? He only went downhill from there.
Unfortunately the public do, in fact, class them as "a motorbike". It is something that you sit on, so therefore must be a motorbike...
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How do you figure that..?? From what I remember - he was riding a quad and he had an accident with a guy on a dirt bike.
Then to let the whole story go on about his injuries and she goes on to say riders need to be aware of other users when they put on their helmets. And the big sub note. Turns out said husband wasn't wearing a helmet. Some one should complain to the broadcasting standards people.
Again, how do you figure that..?? Now the lady probably has to change her husband's nappies and spoon feed him... so she is in a better position than anybody to remind people to use their helmets all the time.
Comfortably numb
Wasn't he thrown into the chair when Hawkesby got arsed? I do remember he was stunned mullet material until he found his feet - not like the little upstart he has morphed into nowdays
parting of the sensory
That's it.
Personally, I don't see any big deal with people using vehicles (even unregistered/unwarranted ones) on beaches, provided they are responsible and considerate about it. It's been a kiwi tradition almost, that people use old tractors to tow boats down to the sea, or have a quad to tootle down for a fish or whatever, and it didn't become an issue until you got fuckwits rolling their SUVs on beaches, or speeding on their bikes, or running people over. I'm sure the cops would've been happy to be able to leave it was it was, and not have to police this.
I'm also sure the bureaucrats are delighted: another opportunity to make more laws, rules'n'regulations.
And the few wankers that spoil it for everyone else will keep doing so, but the rest of us will lose a bit more freedom.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
told ya so
Sounded like you were when you saidMaybe thats something else?Fuckwits! Shoot the lot of them and raise New Zealand's collective IQ.
BTW if you shot me im sure the collective IQ would go down not up ffs
Oh yea, and those places within an hours drive of Muriwai are...?
we may just go where no ones been
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Great. Now the beach is littered with speed signs with COUNCIL pricks checking speed. When with all this shit end?
Fun police fuck off.
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You really don't get it.
It's the wankers that need to fuck off.
i'm motarded
just do your wheelies on the road bro, theres no smelly fishermen or kiddies there to complain.
what i dont get is that they have basically turned the beach into a patrolled road with parking wardens and speed cameras. should you hippes really be letting your fuckin kids play in the middle of the road? whats next a fuckin sandcastle compitition in the middle of spagetti junction?
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