Sad time for CT lovers

[Eaglebeak]

Originally Posted by wayne the one

Do government employees (posties on CT110's) have some type of exemption to ride on the footpath. I gather they do, but what is the actual rule for them?

Yes.
Only Postal Delivery officers have this exemption.

Anyone else (example, private junk mail delivery people) caught doing it should be charged. Of course they never are !

[JohnG.]

Originally Posted by Precis

In Vic, you need to be under 12 or have less than 200 watts of power at your disposal; from what my postie mates tell me, the footpath is the most dangerous place on the planet, as Mrs Flobbietits reverses her Flacadore/SUV/Asian shitbox out of her driveway, severely under the influence of snot-gargling small children....
I think I'd rather take my chances with the drug-crazed txting teenage P-platers thanks....

Yup,probably on a par with the road out to the mines,here...those oldies on their electric four wheel scooters must be ex miners

[Tagati]

Originally Posted by JohnG.

Yup,probably on a par with the road out to the mines,here...those oldies on their electric four wheel scooters must be ex miners

I hear you there. I have been doing roadworks in the moranbah dysart middlemount area for the last month and a half. Apparently the 40kph signs on our job sites aren't for miners. Its nothing to see them do 100 through our site. Every 2 or 3 days i almost get hit.

[Clacka]

Originally Posted by Eaglebeak

Yes.
Only Postal Delivery officers have this exemption.

Anyone else (example, private junk mail delivery people) caught doing it should be charged. Of course they never are !

OK, here's the go.

Engine capacity must be 125cc or less. Only Australia Post employees and (recently) non Aus Post contracted leaflet/junkmail deliverers are permitted to ride on the footpath but only when in the act of delivering mail (or leaflets etc.).
Speed limit is 10kph.

And, Yes, the footpath is a FUCKING dangerous place to be riding a motorbike with reversing cars being the biggest issue but also kids running/riding out from behind hedges/fences, Telstra pits or water meter boxes with the lids not on properly, deep holes where the grass has been mown level with the surrounding lawn, ropes/wires strung across the footpath to stop you riding on the perfectly fine lawn by cockheads who don't understand it's illegal for them to do so and that, because of where they hid it, you can't possibly reach their mailbox without riding on the lawn or into the metre-plus wide garden bed they've decided to build in front of said mailbox, and of course there's the national obsession with planting anything with inch long thorns right near the mailbox with branches hanging out at perfect face/neck height to make it really easy to do your job. Aus Post has decided to get into the spirit of it all too, by fitting a flag to your bike which smacks you square in the back of the head every time you go under a low branch.

And I haven't even started on the spiders/wasps/magpies/snakes/dogs etc.....


Beathe......exhale.....

Rant over

[Wallaby_Ted]

Originally Posted by Clacka

OK, here's the go.

Engine capacity must be 125cc or less. Only Australia Post employees and (recently) non Aus Post contracted leaflet/junkmail deliverers are permitted to ride on the footpath but only when in the act of delivering mail (or leaflets etc.).
Speed limit is 10kph.

And, Yes, the footpath is a FUCKING dangerous place to be riding a motorbike with reversing cars being the biggest issue but also kids running/riding out from behind hedges/fences, Telstra pits or water meter boxes with the lids not on properly, deep holes where the grass has been mown level with the surrounding lawn, ropes/wires strung across the footpath to stop you riding on the perfectly fine lawn by cockheads who don't understand it's illegal for them to do so and that, because of where they hid it, you can't possibly reach their mailbox without riding on the lawn or into the metre-plus wide garden bed they've decided to build in front of said mailbox, and of course there's the national obsession with planting anything with inch long thorns right near the mailbox with branches hanging out at perfect face/neck height to make it really easy to do your job. Aus Post has decided to get into the spirit of it all too, by fitting a flag to your bike which smacks you square in the back of the head every time you go under a low branch.

And I haven't even started on the spiders/wasps/magpies/snakes/dogs etc.....


Beathe......exhale.....

Rant over

Soft

[Clacka]

Originally Posted by Tagati

I hear you there. I have been doing roadworks in the moranbah dysart middlemount area for the last month and a half. Apparently the 40kph signs on our job sites aren't for miners. Its nothing to see them do 100 through our site. Every 2 or 3 days i almost get hit.

Dress a dummy up in work gear and have it "step" out in front of them as they rocket through the site, that'll wake 'em up...

[Clacka]

Originally Posted by Wallaby_Ted

Soft

Says the bloke who's KTM has its own proper bedroom so it doesn't get cold tootsies....

Isn't it past your bedtime?

[Stevietune]

Hey clacky , I feel ur postie pain bro . Been a postie for a few years , now a contractor at brendale. Keen to catch up and compare engine mods as I'm running a very similar stroker to yours as I'm not at the full mercy of aus post yet. Ps those flags are sooo gay , he he

[Red Devil]

Too much plastic IMO, and I hope that isn't the final colour scheme they're going with.. looks nothing like a Postie, they should stick with the red. I wonder whether the change is going to effect the turnover of ex post bikes and if these things are going to be harder to sell with either their faults or lack of faith in the machine? At least when you buy a postie you know what you're getting, but then everything was new once.

Will be interesting to watch these develop I think, who knows in a few years we might be buying them, painting them red and fixing them up

[gavo]

Maybe this is the road post should go down

[WILL_S]

Originally Posted by gavo

Maybe this is the road post should go down

geez mate don't give em ideas
looks like a couple of small packets it will carry

[gavo]

Think you could pulla wheelie on one of those?

[Clacka]

Originally Posted by gavo

Maybe this is the road post should go down

Fuck, you'd better hope Post Mismanagement don't see that or we'll be having a trial (Post lingo for forcing something through whether it works or not) to see if some desk jockey who's never delivered a letter in his/her life thinks they're viable (viable as a half arsed idea to implement so upper management thinks they're actually doing something to justify their position).

[Clacka]

Originally Posted by gavo

Think you could pulla wheelie on one of those?

yes

[Maxyb]

Originally Posted by gavo

Think you could pulla wheelie on one of those?

Load the front up just forward of the front axle and it's do brilliant stoppies