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I miss working in this sort of country. It's the type of scenery where you almost expect Clint Eastwood to roll up with his poncho and mule. This was the last job I worked on out there. It was a small prospect for Innamincka Petroleum around the field they had north of Innamincka. The camera was a little Panasonic Lumix compact. It took reasonable photos and was around that time period when digital cameras were starting to produce reasonable quality images. I've still got the camera but rarely use it. If I want to take a non phone photo these days I use the old Canon 700D.

Marty, this was my favourite for leaning into corners back in the day, but it probably wouldn't hold up against the modern bikes these days. A bloke I knew back then had a Dominator SS and he let me take it for a ride one day. As far as handling goes, it ran rings around the Commando. The only issue with the SS was the annoying vibration coming through the seat right around the 60mph mark. The owner of it went on to own the world's fastest Velocette. He tried for 200 mph for a few years but the final record he set was just a bit short at 193 mph.

That was dad riding with a toddler on the tank, mum behind holding a baby and an older child hanging on behind her.

I wonder how many they would fit on them in Asia. I've seen a family of five on a small solo bike (like a 175cc) in places like Indonesia.

Who did you go to war with? Trump: “IRAN” And how did it end? Trump: “ I RAN”.

And for carrying Mother, when you couldn't afford a car.

They're good for carrying groceries. And building arm muscles.

I've never understood sidecars. To me it destroys the whole purpose of a motorbike, which is to have fun leaning through corners.

He's back! I especially liked the last one. It's what's in the mind of many young blokes (and women) in the nightclub...

Just to qualify those sidecar details, here's the quote from the transport department regultions: 'Sidecars which bolt directly to the motorcycle’s frame without the need for any modifications to the motorcycles are acceptable without specific approval. Sidecars which require the motorcycle to be modified (for example, welding to the frame) must be approved by the Department of Transport and Main Roads. Before modifying your motorcycles so that a sidecar can be attached, you should engage the services of an Approved Person Engineer, who can submit an application on your behalf.' So a normal bolt on sidecar doesn't need approval. The park brake ruling is that a motorcycle manufactured after February 1976 fitted with a sidecar must have a mechanical parking brake. A bike can have a right hand side car only if it was built that way before 1 July 1988.

As far as I know Queensland is the only state that has the option of either single or dual seat registration. About a month ago I spotted this Royal Enfield Bullet 500 and sidecar in the shopping centre carpark. I got talking to the owner and he was saying that as long as you have two seat rego on a bike, you can fit a sidecar any time you like without any engineering certification or inspections. You can build a sidecar yourself and fit it, the only transport department stipulations on sidecars are that it must have four attachment points and a park brake. We don't have annual vehicle inspections here, only on trucks so for other vehicles they only need a roadworthy certificate to transfer registration from one owner to another. The owner of this Royal Enfield is a retired pilot and has quite a few classics from what he told me. Norton Commandos and single thumpers. This one is his daily driver although he said he sticks to the secondary roads and doesn't go near the highway on it.

A malignant narcissist, 6 time bankrupt, insecure, compulsive liar & con man. Absolutely nothing to like there.

No, and that's a big problem. People with mental illness, especially those whose illness has made them homeless usuyally have had very traumatic interactions with police whose lack of training in dealing with the minds of the mentally ill exacerbates bad interactions. The feeling of helplessness in the police to be able to reach a satisfactory solution to the problem presented by a mental illness situation is demoralising. Remember,too, that for the constables called out to a mental illness situation there are likely to be aware that at the same time calls are coming in for them to deal with all the other types of situations that normally occur durig a shift. There are never enough police on duty at a given time to deal with all the calls coming in. So while police are stuck in an A&E unit with a mentally ill person, some arsehole is beting his partner and some drunk has wrapped his car around a pole. Which job gets priority? As dramatist W. S. Gilbert's lyric in The Pirates of Penzance song "When a felon's not engaged in his employment" sung by the Sergeant and Chorus of Police, "A policeman's lot is not a happy one ..."

Are they trained to handle Mental people? I think they are there more for security reasons. It's pretty common to see. Nev

I take my hat off to you ome for doing that job. I remember four years ago when I was in icu after an artery operation, the first night there was a lot of commotion in an adjoining room. I don't know what the story was, but it sounded like a druggie who had od'd on purpose to suicide and he was very angry that he'd been revived. He was off his head and the police had to be there to keep him under control.

Often when I was performing constabulary duties, I had to take mental patients to the local hospital which had a psych unit. Like the ambos, I had to stay with the patient in the corridors of the A&E until the patient could be asessed by a doctor for admission. You can imagine how fustrating that was when I knew that my partner and I were the only crew available to attend to calls in our patrol. And it usually happened during evening shift on weekends when there was lots going on out on the streets.

I still haven't identified the drum brake wheels on this 1970 Ural frame yet, but the tyres on it bring back some memories. They're Dunlop Roadmaster K81/TT100 tyres the same as I had on my Norton Commando Fastback in 1972. In those days they were the latest big thing. They still make them now but market them as a classic vintage style tyre. It makes you feel a bit old hearing that.

That's a lot of money. In Queensland motorcycle rego is $140 plus a traffic improvement fee of $70. CTP for dual seat is around $425, so about $635 all up. If it's registered as a solo seat, the CTP is around 80 or 100 dollars less, not sure of the exact figure. The saving for single seat rego is hardly worth it. A solo seat needs to be fitted and the pillion footpeg brackets either cut off or welded up.

I hope it has a good subwoofer.

To balance my whinge about hospitals, I must add that in spite of frequent past experiences of looong wait times, our health system is generally good. I attribute this to the exceptional diligence of nursing staff, and doctors. The admin, financing, etc..... well that needs work.

The only recent time I've walked into emergency entailed a five hour wait before being triaged, but I wasn't a critical case. It was more a formality; the stroke clinic phoned me and wanted me to do it. As I know now, that's what I should have done in the first place instead of going through the GP and then getting a referral to the hospital. A couple of years ago when I was stretchered in after running low on the red stuff, it wasn't too long to wait. Maybe ten minutes ramped in the ambulance, then another ten in the hallway. The paramedics stayed with me and kept an eye on blood pressure so it was all good. Our local public hospitals are good in my opinion. Not the case everywhere from what you hear.

There's also an electric prototype. https://www.imz-ural.com.au/

I beleive you can avoid any tax,if you sell it within 2 years and under some circumstances this period may be able to be extended.

You are in Queensland, aren't you? You know it's different. Nev

That certainly doesn't look like anything earth shattering. How many of you People have ridden Outfits? They are not everybody's cup of tea. You have to get used to them and look well ahead if you are Pushing it near the limit.. Nev