Something positive KB can do

[FROSTY:Me]

Ok guys n gals im gonna edit the origonal post .
Ive um been both a bag filler for AMCC and er a bag stuffer upperer like shaun

[SuperDave]

Good idea man. I'll start saving them from now on.

[slowpoke]

Not to be a wet blanket but isn't this just treating the symptom rather than the cause?
Are the people developing the facility aware of the problem?
I mean surely if an A1GP car belts the wall there, at the cornering speeds they are capable of, then a substantial area of the pits is gonna be showered with debris. I haven't been there for a while but it would seem logical to promote and effect changes now before too much infrastructure complicates the situation.
Yeah I know, the bales are a good improvement in the meantime, so good luck with the collection.

[R6_kid:Me]

i believe the first post states that the problem will be remedied in due course...

I remember my rear end getting loose on that corner once or twice on the paint and im not *that* fast.

Would polystyrene/expanded plastic foam be suitable too? I've got a fair bit of that stuff lying around.

[Forest]

Would it be illegal to go along with a vehicle and trailor early on a collection day and empty all the recycling bins of their plastic milk bottles, does anyone know?

Not illegal - once you put something out for rubbish collection it is considered to be abandoned.

Incidentally, this is one of the techniques private investigators & identity thieves use to gather personal information. So be careful what you put in the bin.

[SwanTiger]

Not illegal - once you put something out for rubbish collection it is considered to be abandoned.

Incidentally, this is one of the techniques private investigators & identity thieves use to gather personal information. So be careful what you put in the bin.

Excellent.

Is there anyone else in Auckland interested in going around early one morning or late one evening (as most people put their recycling bins out the night before) and collecting suitable plastic bottles from road side recycling bins?

I have a suitable towing vehicle and can hire a caged trailor.

1 or 2 trips should get 3 or 4 bails 'eh?

Or is there a smarter way, such as going directly to a recycling center?

[James Deuce]

So are your old underpants

I wondered where they'd been going.

[JT.]

Excellent.

Is there anyone else in Auckland interested in going around early one morning or late one evening (as most people put their recycling bins out the night before) and collecting suitable plastic bottles from road side recycling bins?

Don't most people squash the bottles before they put them out for recycling?

[SwanTiger]

Don't most people squash the bottles before they put them out for recycling?

Scoped out a few of the neighbour hood recycling bins, a lot of people don't, remember this is Auckland, people might break a nail or something doing such a messy thing as squashing a milk bottle.

[slowpoke]

i believe the first post states that the problem will be remedied in due course...

I remember my rear end getting loose on that corner once or twice on the paint and im not *that* fast.

The main problem isn't the paint that may cause a slide or highside....it's the crunch against the wall...and it doesn't sound like there are any plans redress this.

If they get rid of the paint then people are going to be carving the corner even faster and hitting the wall that much harder.

[ArcherWC]

Excellent.

Is there anyone else in Auckland interested in going around early one morning or late one evening (as most people put their recycling bins out the night before) and collecting suitable plastic bottles from road side recycling bins?

I have a suitable towing vehicle and can hire a caged trailor.

1 or 2 trips should get 3 or 4 bails 'eh?

Or is there a smarter way, such as going directly to a recycling center?

I dont mind helping out with this as well swanny

[Shaun]

The main problem isn't the paint that may cause a slide or highside....it's the crunch against the wall...and it doesn't sound like there are any plans redress this.

If they get rid of the paint then people are going to be carving the corner even faster and hitting the wall that much harder.

Possibly but, Identify, Illiminate, and that will limit the possible accidents happening because of it

[FROSTY:Me]

Thanks shaun
Ill put it another way
IM FUCKED IF IM VISITING ANOTHER MATE IN HOSPITAL OR THE FUNERAL HOME BECAUSE i DIDDNT DO EVERYTHING i COULD TO MAKE THEM SAFEISH

FIM aparently concider the track to be safe and have sighned off on it as it is
The track management and promotional staff are all car people and they genuinely believe the track to be safe.
I think MNZ perhaps need to visit the track--and that particular corner to establish the relative safety of it
Keep in mind folks -2 or 3 race meetings have been held there with no issues on that corner --sorta backs up their argument that its safe

[paturoa]

...The normal filling is empty plastic milk bottles and empty 2.0l or 1.5l soft drink bottles. ...

my hoard get thru a bunch and I've already started a collection.

[k14]

Just out of curiosity, having not been to taupo yet, how different is it to the final corner at ruapuna? That too has a fairly solid concrete wall within close proximity to the track. I haven't seen a highside there but could imagine the possibility of something happening there.