{"id":249,"date":"2012-05-29T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgc.co\/2012\/05\/uniquely-australian-madness\/"},"modified":"2012-05-29T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T10:44:00","slug":"uniquely-australian-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlespeedgoldcoast.com\/2012\/05\/29\/uniquely-australian-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniquely Australian Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re a country girt by sea but filled with idiots and this week a uniquely Australian type of  moron came to international recognition for his profoundly illogical anti-bike sentiments.<\/p>\n

Reading Bike Snob NY<\/a> this week alerted me to the fact that Melbourne’s own Councillor Ken Ong wants to impose a 20km\/hr speed limit on cyclist. At first I thought, how stupid. I chuckled at Bike Snobs version of events:<\/span>

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Maybe I’m missing something here, but isn’t the problem that the cyclist ran the red light?  If so, I’m assuming that’s already illegal in Melbourne, which means that no additional legislation is necessary. Really, imposing a speed limit because someone ran a red light is like raising the sales tax to combat shoplifting.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But then I saw what Cr Ong was trying to do for us. He was trying to save us cyclist from ourselves. You know, there’s nothing more dangerous to a cyclist than an enraged driver. They’re all enraged to one degree or another, sure, but once they’re seriously pissed off they’ll do almost anything. Witness Warnie running over that bloke in Prahran. Witness the 4WD moron<\/a> who tried to run me over. Witness this:<\/p>\n

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