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Offline Biggles

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #25 on: June 17, 2015, 08:12:10 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.

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #26 on: June 17, 2015, 09:12:34 PM »
I know Biggles, I know . . I guess when I stop riding like a Nanna I'll increase my tyre life from around 8,000ks to 20,000 ks . . I guess that's the secret . . I may even speed up to 80 kph . .
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #27 on: June 17, 2015, 10:40:47 PM »
West Aussie by birth, Kalgoorlie.  But now live in Victoria and liking it.  The roads are poor due to ground movement, the high clay soils really move alot and this in turn causes the many dips humps and bumps in the roads.  In fact it kills my back.  I have 8 damaged disks between the vertibrae in my back and those dips & humps can really hurt.  I hate the roads for that reason.
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #28 on: June 18, 2015, 06:30:36 PM »
Add 1 more who lives in Victoria (actually Warragul). I thought that there were originally  quite a few of us.
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #29 on: June 18, 2015, 07:54:42 PM »
I am from Victoria. I live in Victoria. Have not lived anywhere else.


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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #30 on: July 14, 2015, 08:32:43 AM »
Born in Whyalla, SA. Toured Europe, UK and US for 6 months in late 60's. Toured Aus 71 to mid 76 after returning from overseas. Lived in Melbourne while based at 2 Sig Regt, Watsonia Barracks 76-80. Moved to Ashmore on the Gold coast March 81-87, then Brisbane for 2 years.
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #31 on: July 14, 2015, 10:12:50 AM »
I'm not from Victoria but I've had the misfortune of being posted there a few times.
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #32 on: July 14, 2015, 03:14:59 PM »
How's the survey going then Marcus?
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #33 on: July 14, 2015, 03:17:03 PM »
How's the survey going then Marcus?

LOL since I started it back in 2012?? Haven't really being paying attention, seems to be alot of people NOT from Victoria telling us how They went there this one time hahahahaha
 

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #34 on: July 14, 2015, 03:21:11 PM »
The survey data does seem to be a little corrupted ...... :fp
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2015, 06:16:40 PM »
How's the survey going then Marcus?

LOL since I started it back in 2012?? Haven't really being paying attention, seems to be alot of people NOT from Victoria telling us how They went there this one time hahahahaha
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #36 on: July 14, 2015, 06:22:19 PM »
I was born in Victoria, spent my early life on a dairy farm (18 years in the same place, same parents even!) until I moved to Canberra for university and work in 1977. All my family is still down in Victoria. I go there a lot, just got back from there.

If you want to see where I lived the first part of my life look up Carpendeit in google maps, and of courses we lived at the end of Nagles Road.
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #37 on: July 14, 2015, 06:38:38 PM »
I lived in Victoria four times. Pukapunyal, Mornington, Balcombe, Laverton and Point Cook/Werribee. Total of about 12 yrs.. Thae last time was after 3 yrs in Malaysia, thats a bit hard on the system that is..
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #38 on: August 10, 2015, 10:42:46 PM »
Well, add a new one to the list  :beer  Came from SA, hopped a bus in 2000and ended up in Melbourne.  I've been a ("kick a") Vic for 15 years as of the July 12th just past.
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #39 on: August 16, 2015, 05:13:23 PM »
Born in Glasgow, grew up in Hamilton, Scotland.
Now live in Narre Warren South East Melbourne.
 So I'm with you Marcus I am now claiming to be Victorian.

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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #40 on: August 16, 2015, 05:34:18 PM »
Obviously like most Victorians, do not like living anywhere with warm and stable weather  :Stirpot.
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #41 on: August 19, 2015, 07:55:10 AM »
as might be warm but not everyone is stable. Hehe


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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #42 on: August 19, 2015, 07:55:54 AM »
I'm roughly half SA'n


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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #43 on: April 30, 2016, 08:44:31 AM »
23 years in Victoria  :hatwave
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #44 on: April 30, 2016, 12:28:44 PM »
Half of Qld is made up of Victorians who moved there during the depression in Victoria during the 80's and 90's when the Vic govt went broke  :wink1
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #45 on: April 30, 2016, 01:03:05 PM »
Half of Qld is made up of Victorians who moved there during the depression in Victoria during the 80's and 90's when the Vic govt went broke  :wink1

 :blu13 I spent ONE night in Williamstown in 1977 met a wharfies daughter, then 9 months later found I had a Daughter  :eek NEVER went there again coz her father said he had a shotgun with my name on it :eek :whistle >:() :blu13left
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #46 on: May 08, 2016, 08:49:39 PM »
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Re: Stand up be counted
« Reply #47 on: November 29, 2016, 10:40:01 PM »
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