Australian Motorcyclist — January 2018

WHAT SAY YOU

AND AGAIN
Peter,
I agree about International Roast

• it used to be standard serving in
  the Army until I banned it and got
  something a little better.
  It’s worse than bad.
  Regards
  Phillip Haddad

The Australian Army is full of heroes, isn’t
it – they even look after the coffee – The
Bear

MOORE FROM JACK
Dear Sirs
Whoops - 96 year old mistakes
the accelerator for a brake. Writes
off car. What, didn’t use the
clutch? Silly question, would have
been an automatic.
Two kids dead this week. Thanks Bill
Fox for your suggestion “they should
put their brain into gear”.
Say that at the kids funeral.
Something needs to be done! If not
a change to the controls, compulsory
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Would it be too hard to press the

accelerator sideways? What about

a “dead man switch” under your

right heel?

Ralph Nader warned you years

ago about automatics!

Action needed.

Regards

Jack Moore CPEng (Ret)

Ocean Reef WA

We occasionally get a letter from Jack, always

with useful if unusual ideas. They mostly

apply to cars, but we motorcyclists are just as

threatened by driver incompetence as the kids

Jack mentions – The Bear

STEVE’S NOT HAPPY

Peter and Stuart,

I have looked forward to the arrival

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but I regret I may not renew my

subscription again.

Obviously the majority of your

readers want stories about “off

road” and “adventure” riding as

against sealed road touring on

interesting roads in Australia and

overseas. I’m not one of them,

you used to do tours of Europe

showing a world I dream of seeing

one day, what happened?

Regards,

Steve Dixon

Hi, Steve, and thank you for writing. It

helps a lot if readers actually tell us what

they’re unhappy about. It is sometimes

unpredictable what kinds of stories will

turn up and need to be accommodated in

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adventure stories is more due to that than to

a change of direction for the magazine, and

one issue was an adventure special. Please

bear with us; there are several sealed road

European stories coming up - The Bear

AND STEVE SAYS:

Thanks, I did jump the gun a bit as I

didn’t read Stuarts intro about it being

a special “adventure” edition. I have

noticed though that there seems to

be more off road and less sealed road

stories these days.

I won’t give up on you just yet.

Steve Dixon D

0023 + years

Life is a or nothing at all!

32 days: Myanmar,

Thailand, Laos,

Vietnam, Cambodia

Five Fingers

of S.E. sia!

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