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Stand up be counted
« on: January 09, 2012, 01:18:29 PM »
I need to know how many of us are from Victoria...

If you are, raise your hand and be counted.

Apart from me...don't let me be the only one :(

If you don't live in Victoria...then piss off back to your state and stop lerking...  :nahnah
 

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2012, 01:31:56 PM »
I am in the ACT but originally from Victoria.  There are a couple of others that I know of, but they can confess themselves!
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2012, 04:17:18 PM »
Is anyone else going to admit to that??  :nahnah  :wink1
 

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2012, 06:10:43 PM »
Hi Marcus,

I'm a former NSW resident now in Victoria for over a decade and although I don't call myself a Victorian (in public) I will on this thread so you won't be alone.  :hatwave
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2012, 08:48:52 PM »
I've been to Victoria :grin
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2012, 08:58:52 PM »
I've been to Victoria twice, and I don't think much of the condition of the roads there.
To clarify, the road systems are fantasic. West Gate bridge, the tunnel to get to Ferntree Gully, awesome.
The huge potholes in the freeway near Riddles Creek and elsewhere, disappointing.
I didn't even mind the toll roads, as travelling was fast and easy.

Long live the West.

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2012, 11:25:02 PM »
Born in Carlton lived in Melbourne for 29 years then came to the West been here ever since. Go back over every couple of years got lots of friends & relos there
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2012, 09:33:00 AM »
Born Elsternwick, Melbourne.............spent much of my early years in & around there, Caulfield, Elwood, Brighton, St Kilda, etc. as well as Fern Tree Gully, Belgrave area (ex girlfriend)  Sister & family still living at East Kew. Daughter & family at Burnside Heights. Good friends here, there, & eveywhere! :grin

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2012, 01:27:55 AM »
I've been to Victoria :grin

I've heard of her. Wasn't she a Queen? :runyay
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2012, 08:58:07 AM »
I have lived in Mornington, Balcobme (Army apprentices school) and Werribee. Too cold n wet for me.

Oh nearly forgot, Puckapunyal as well.
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2012, 03:59:16 PM »
It would appear that there are two of us, I live out near Essendon Airport :blk11
 

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2012, 04:57:45 PM »
It would appear that there are two of us, I live out near Essendon Airport :blk11


Surely these's more than that! I'm out at Pakenham.

If you're out this way or looking for a day out , I do some rides with the very active local Ulysses (Shearwaters Branch) and leading one on the 22nd Jan heading Yea area. http://www.shearwaters.org/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3316
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2012, 09:34:21 PM »
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2012, 09:39:48 PM »
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2012, 08:38:33 PM »
Hi I am a Newbie, Proud Victorian live in Sunbury, Haven't had an St long, Great bikes and we have some great roadsto ride on if you know where to go. Cheers  :blk13
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2012, 08:58:54 PM »
  Winston 66   Says,     :rd13 :hatwave   :runyay

  I had a girlfriernd once,  Her name was Victorier.
  But she gave me the flick,

Do I qualify

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2012, 09:06:58 PM »
It all depends on how the ride was :blk13
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2012, 09:12:42 PM »


 :rd13 :rd13   

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Twas better than good.
  But i wouldent tell her mother.

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2012, 09:49:51 PM »
I was down in Victoria the last week.  Wherever I went all signs pointed to Maryborough (ok so I went Ballarat-Bendigo way)
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2012, 07:41:52 AM »
I was down in Victoria the last week.  Wherever I went all signs pointed to Maryborough (ok so I went Ballarat-Bendigo way)
And you didn't call in? Disappointed
 

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2012, 08:35:12 AM »
I was in Melbourne once on business...it rained and was cold!

I look at the Vic number plates that say "Victoria, the place to be" and ask myself "...then why aren't you there?"  :rofl
 
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« Reply #21 on: February 14, 2012, 06:27:04 AM »
Hi Marcus , you are not on your own,happy to stand in the trenches with you. Adam :blk13
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #22 on: March 13, 2012, 02:30:12 PM »
 :runyay hell marcus i have lived in so bloody many places i'm not shure where i'm from but i'm in vic now...lol..called around today but you were at work..will catch up eventually mate. :dred11
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« Reply #23 on: June 17, 2015, 06:52:54 PM »
As much as we cop a fair amount of stick, Vic is the only place to be . Lived in Tas, Sydney and a very short stint in S.A mostly as a kid.  :wht11
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« Reply #24 on: June 17, 2015, 07:06:05 PM »
I've ridden around Victoria many times and lived to make it back into the ACT . . . AND never been booked down there . . In fact I've managed to only ever been booked while riding the motorbike once in my life . . . Been riding since 1966.

But . . No . . I'm not a Mexican . . .
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