Something positive KB can do

[crashe]

Swantiger - To help clear up something here for you.

Once the recycle or rubbish or organic is out on the road/kerbside it is considered to then belong to the council for that area.

Many people do squash up the bottles so that they can get more into the bins..... while others dont...... so most likely 50/50.

I squash mine up.



What you could do thou is ring up the Waitakere City Council or go out to the concourse rubbish tip and ask them if you could have all the unsmashed plastic milk bottles before they send in the big machines and run over them all and squash them all. Tis fun watching them do it and hear them pop pop pop popping. As most people leave the tops on them.

They have a few closed off areas full of the bottles waiting to be squashed.

If they give permission then take a cagetrailer out there and collect them.

I reckon you could get them for free as well.
As it is going to a good cause.

If no joy, then contact Mayor Bob Harvey and ask him....... he would give you the go ahead to collect the bottles.

[klingon]

Can I clarify one more thing... do the bottles have to have their lids put back on them? So....

- unmashed
- washed
- lidded?

[Shaun]

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.

Taupo is a minny version of Ruapuna mate, ie, a lot tighter and less chance of getting away with it, as you are so close in the first place

[Shaun]

Actually fuck all this nice touchy fealy shit, some one get the Taupo track managers email, and we should all email the said person our feelings on it, if he/she does not like it fuck em, the money they will loose by riders not being there will hurt them a lot more than riders

[Donor]

We have our own Paramedics so you dont need St Johns, and we are all trained First Aiders and fire and crash rescue.

Ah... so you can transport P1 to medical facilities?

Hate to have a perfectly good paramedic there waiting for a perfectly good ambulance to arrive to transport, when St John can scoop and run...

[avgas]

how about some "SPEED KILLS" signs - i could grab some in the weekend jokes.

Will start hording for ya - when you want them in by?

[Karma]

Tell ya what would work... a speed camera pointing at the corner... should do the trick, set it to 50kph or something...

Either that or a speed hump.

[k14]

Tell em it backs up fuck all but a bullshit truck.

Plenty of incident free meetings at Pukekohe too between the guy that was paralyzed at the 300km enduro and Motobob's crash two weeks ago.
Think its been a year or a bit more since there was a SERIOUS or LETHAL accident on the 'top o the hill' (before Motobobs). But its still a dangerous corner.
So 2 or 3 meetings without incident means as much as a blowie from a 2 dollar whore. (tell em that too, they prolly know her)

What about two smokers? I'd class that as serious. That makes it 3 serious injuries in the last 18 months or so. Lucky there wasn't any at nationals, i think the only crashes happened at them were either at castrol or the hairpin.

[FROSTY:Me]

I guess their argument is that noone has been hurt so noone WILL be hurt
I odviously don't agree

[MadDuck]

Surely OSH would be VERY interested to hear these views from you guys who actually use the track and dont think its safe.

Enough complaints and they will have to react.....

[Toast]

Surely OSH would be VERY interested to hear these views from you guys who actually use the track and dont think its safe.

Enough complaints and they will have to react.....

At first I thought that OSH only covered workplace stuff (wish my job involved riding on the track), but...

The Department of Labour provides best practice information and guidance to assist New Zealand businesses with health and safety in the workplace. The Department of Labour also inspects workplaces to check on safety and health arrangements, investigates accidents at work, and makes sure employers and employees comply with health and safety legislation. We are responsible for regulating the storage and use of hazardous substances, explosives and dangerous goods, and for the safety of amusement devices.

...maybe the track would fall under an amusement device?

Anyway, the bottles are wicked idea for the time being.

[ManDownUnder]

Surely OSH would be VERY interested to hear these views from you guys who actually use the track and dont think its safe.

Enough complaints and they will have to react.....

Yeah... the committee would be formed, a report done, $500,000 spent on consultants would would recommend the track be closed down...

Sorry - feeling cynical today

[MadDuck]

I can understand you being cynical....just had a thought in my peabrain.

The bottle idea is great BUT we shouldnt have to be doing it.

[Shaun]

What it really needs is the track management to read this thread and then will understand just how serious the riders about this issue.

Perhaps some one could go through the process of printing it off and putting it on a courier to them?

[MadDuck]

More than happy to if you think it will help....