Use of Headlights when offroad

Scubaroo,
I agree with your comment. You take the Wife and kids to the bush for the weekend for fun and to getaway from the 'richard craniums' but they seem to be worse in the bush.........just because the road is dirt doesn't mean you should drive like an idiot. As for the hoon element I wonder how many of them have insurance when the inevitable corner comes up?

Also noticed on the way up just past Yarck someone had thrown a rubbish bag full of VB bottles on the side of the highway..smashed all over the road shoulder and about 100m up from the mess was a wayside stop with a rubbish bin.

Rob

Dare I mention my idea for a "quiet weekend" once a month where trailbikes and quad-bikes are not to be used in specified parks so that it's possible to get out and enjoy the bush without the constant scream of bike engines? Probably not.

Scubaroo... As trail bike rider, I can fully appreciate your idea. How does that grab ya...???

That's the danger isn't it though - next thing it would be 4wd free weekend etc...

I just wish *certain* clowns wouldn't ride choose to ride within a couple of metre of us through the river nowhere near a trail when my wife and I are flyfishing after hiking 30 minutes to get away from roads etc. Common courtesy dictates if you see two people fishing in the middle of nowhere, you don't ride into the river BETWEEN them when they are standing only 10m apart, and then proceed to sit in the river, wait for your mate to catch up, and then and spray a rooster tail of water everywhere before bleep off.

There's some real idiots on trailbikes, just like there's some real idiots in 4wds.

Yep, dick heads on both sides... Had to endure the stories of a truck driver at work the other day... "F@#k the DSE, my mates have been out Wombat pulling gates out of the ground, that'll fix those c@#ts up for trying to close our tracks" or words VERY close to that... Just shake my head and hope he brings some photo's in so I can take down some rego's...

Blue,
I too am a trailbike rider and understand what you mean. Earlier this year I had no sympathy for the idiot unregistered trailbike rider who flew through the Running Creek camping ground on the Howqua River and through the river crossing only to be chased by 2 Police Trailbike squad members. When the Police returned from the other side of the river I was very happy as they had caught the guy, fined him and most of all they broke the spark plug ceramic section off rendering his bike useless. Mind you he looked like a dog with it's tail between its legs when he was pushing his bike back through the river!!!

Rob

Unfortunately Rob, unlike the minority of 4byers ruining it for the rest of us, it seems to be the majority of trailbikers ruining it for both other bike riders and 4bys. When we ride these days, we hardly ever see so much as a rec.rego plate, let alone full rego plates. No wonder they're closing tracks.

I agree. My lights are on evrywhere I drive. Lot easier than having a head on!
Only problem is people keep flashing me and I bleep e myself thinking I have just gone through a radar!

I`ve flashed a few people with their lights on in daytime, but only because the high beams been on and they haven`t realised it.
Don`t do it anymore, got the finger a couple of times and people look at you stupid and wonder why the hell I`m flashing them, they already know they have thier headlights on.