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[mark300]

catch of the summer

[Zac]

That was a damn good catch!

[Shaz]

I don't think Promite tastes like Carlton Draught at all Shaz.

 

Hahaha nice. 

[RX25SE]

Gaz,
If you want the bonnet repaired (this will colour match the bar a little better) make sure they clear coat the whole bonnet or the blend will show up down the track.

[Shaz]

Gaz,
If you want the bonnet

 

Please, go on.

[RX25SE]

 
Please, go on.

I did.

Fat fingers and a small phone you see.....

[skillionaire]

Truth

[Shaz]

Hahaha. Now I look like a dick. 

 

Something different to usual. 

[ams]

Hahaha. Now I look like a dick. 
 
Something different to usual. 

Instead of just smelling like one?

[Shaz]

Instead of just smelling like one?

 

[Hypnotic]

Sup

[Shaz]

[Harry88]

 

What happened to Barry's car? Hit or crashed?

 

Some guy reversed into him on the way to the SubyClub Xmas meet.

Sup

 

[skillionaire]

Worst grammar ever, Sherxbort. 

[Richo]

The circle with a line through it doesn't mean 'no speed limit'.

 

It means 80kp/h

here was me thinking it was a speed de-restriction, meaning what ever speed you want, up to the state limit

[skillionaire]

State limit for the classification of road, Richo.

Would have to check in NSW, but I know the expected limit nation wide was 80kp/h

[Adam]

Worst grammar ever, Sherxbort. 

Yes

[skillionaire]

Often the start of rural default 'limits' or prima facie allowances were signalled by use of the speed derestriction sign, catalogued R4-2 in AS1742.4. (2009 edition has dropped from reference the R4-2 speed derestriction). The speed derestriction sign (//) had developed 'different meaning' over time at state and territory level, although its contract-meaning under "The United Nations Convention on Road Traffic, Signs & Signals" where the sign is catalogued "C,17a", is; "End of all local prohibitions imposed on moving vehicles" and has never changed. In the Northern Territory, they designated the end of speed restrictions. In Victoria they meant that the rural default speed limit applied, whilst in New South Wales, they indicated that the prima facie 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) limit applied.

Derestriction signs remain in place even though officially no longer in use in NSW

New South Wales's prima facie 50 mph limit, often signed by derestriction signs, was only enforced in cases where a driver's speed could be demonstrated to be excessive or dangerous in the context of prevailing road conditions. This was somewhat similar in principle to "reasonable and prudent" limits in other jurisdictions. This led to the widespread but misleading belief that no limit applied, and that derestriction signs indicated an "unlimited" limit. This belief, coupled with repeated studies showing 85th percentile speeds in excess of 120 km/h on major routes, comparatively high road tolls, difficulty in prosecuting speeding offences, and the variance in meaning of the derestriction sign across states, led New South Wales to harmonise its rural default limit to 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) in 1978. The use of derestriction signs in New South Wales was officially discouraged, and on state controlled routes, 100 km/h signs were progressively used instead.

By the 1990s, most states had discontinued use of the derestriction sign, mainly for reasons of disambiguity. In most cases, these have either been replaced with definite specific limits, or "END limit" signs on roads where a specific limit is inappropriate or otherwise impractical. However, in some areas, local governments have continued to use the deprecated signs on locally controlled rural roads.

The Northern Territory continued to use derestriction signs to indicate unlimited limits until 2007, when an open road default limit of 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph) was introduced, along with 130 kilometres per hour (81 mph) limits on the Territory's four major highways.^[16][17]

[Adam]

Hi