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The fuel those ships engines use is pretty crap stuff, but Taswegia is an Island and everything comes and goes by Boat or Plane and the way things are going in the ME, wheres the diesel coming from? Nev

Rode into Hobart this morning to check out the vintage motorbike show in Princes Wharf #1. ( @nomadpete- on til 4pm if you want to see it, $5 entry, free parking for bikes on the forecourt). Heaps of lovely old bikes including a 1951 Vincent Black Lightning in original condition which apparently went for $1.3m at auction.

It's ironic that the game created in Victoria, and derided for so long by the followers of other codes in other States, will have its 2026 competition decided by teams from at least one State which was amongst the deriders.

Have you got an engine for your trike yet? I know where you might get a nice light alloy Buick/Rover V8....

A mate had a Mini Moke Californian with inentical speedo. I remember the day well. I had my left leg in plaster from a bike accident so it was stuck out the side. To say I felt a bit vulnerable would be an understatement. He wound it out til the needle was on the Full mark on the fuel gauge. Then a XJ Jag breezed past us like we were standing still! Sorry for the thread drift, but the Pic of a rusty old speedo lit up ma mrmory cell.

Young pup! Nobody expected a car to last 100,000 so there was no need for a bigger odometer. I had a friend who took a photo of his Holden odo rolling over to zero - but the car was on it's second engine.

I like how it only goes to 99,999 miles. Did they not expect cars to do more than 100,000 back then?

Well, that is my Saturday deflated. Good win to the Lions against the Hawks in the prelim today. In all honesty, the better team won, as when they put the jets on in the third quartert, the Lions were unstoppable. They would have had less legs than the Hawks as the Hawks had a week off. Still, for the Hawks, so close, yet soooooooo far...

Spot on Pete, that's what it is.

Looks rather Morris Minor. Got the patina you want.

Found an old mph Smiths speedo in rat bike condition which might be a contender. It's fairly big; about an inch bigger dimeter than a W or U series Harley speedo. I've got 5 gallon split taks so it will depend on the final fitment of those tanks whether or not the speedo will fit between the filler caps in a tank console.

A little thread drift, but an associate member of the EU hasn't been defined, so knowing the EU it may take a very long time, although the desire to move away from the USA may speed things up a little. But there will be hurdles. There are three freedoms that are preserved across the EU: movement of capital, movement of goods/services, and movement of people. Will these have to be included in an associate membership? If so, then your control of immigration from any EU country goes out the window. So, given Australia's very tight grip on immigration compared to other countries, the preservation of this free movement may well be a problem. The EU will need to think about things very carefully. There sort of is already associate membership - it is the European Economic Area. It allows Iceland, Norway, and Lichtenstein to basically be in the EU without being in the EU, and they are required to comply with most of the obligations of the EU. Yet they don't get to vote on the EU rules they need to comply with. Switzerland has a similar arrangement through a bilateral agreement. And of course, after the messy divorce, there is this country called Britain, which tried it's own bilateral deal, but all was offered was Switzerland's deal. So, the EU has some existing memberships and deals, that if they give special treatment to Canada in this Associate Membership status, might peeve off a couple of these others, and may trigger a whole round of renegotiations of these arrangements. And given the rising anti-EU sentiment within the EU and the rising right, if Canada gets some sort of cushy deal, well, there will be individual countries coming under pressure to leave the EU and join a cushy deal, too. Outside of a free trade agreement or similar type of bilateral arrangement, I can't see this one being negotiated and agreed upon anytime soon. These are not insurmountable problems, but the political risk for the EU is very much there.

Wot? Gee I hope the new ferries have lockable fuel caps.

Greedy Rotten Bastards. . That will SINK Tasmania. Is the NEW Ferry Running yet? Where's the Diesel coming from? Nev

There's a Place called Aukland so just what are Auks? T A Bot called Canada, Canadia. and he is a Rogues Collar.. AKA "the Mad Monk". UK just rejected VAD. . Currently there's no such thing as an "Associate Member" of NATO. A lot of this is a flight of fantasy. Idiot Trump is close to declaring WAR on NATO. Any competition is a threat to The Orange U Tan. He's threatened to cut off ALL trade.. He's capable of anything and needs to be locked up for the Safety of the World. When is ENOUGH enough? He's likely to Put the world into another depression.. Like what happened in 1929. Nev

We should. At the moment they are the last remaining democracies. Plus, "Aukeur" sounds much more refined than "Aukus"

The owners are complaining about the "strict" rules around when they can fire up and use their 200-odd diesel generators. Subtext - although they're describing them as "emergency backup", they want to run them as part of normal operation.

I heard that it has been suggested that Australia and New Zealand also become associate members of the EU. Probably just an idle suggestion floating around in the wake of the offer to Canada.

Not the only cynic:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vgy3pq5ywyo There are the first steps of Canada and EU becoming very close by Canada becoming an associate member of the EU. What that means, I am not sure, but Chump's reaction was yet another tantrum. Howver' Carney's speech to the EU was priceless as it basically was the most polite sticking up of two fingers I have seen. go to 3:10 of this video: Of course, Chump came out with threats and basically throwing his toys out of the pram. But, the USA doesn't need Canada nor Europe, so he really shouldn't care.

I watched a video of an episode of The Romano Report, It went for an hour and contained lots of profanities, but played lots of clips of a Fox interview by Laura Ingraham with Trump in which, amongst other things, he claims "China has lots of magnets. Nobody knows what a magnet is." Total idiot.

Cynic!

I think the 200 number would be .. including the offshore and big city lawyers\finacial engineers to ensure no laws are followed and no tax is ever paid.

I hear that Tasmania is fast tracking a data centre on the Tamar river. Not sure whether they plan to build a nuclear reactor to power it, or maybe just dam another pristine river for more hydro. We don't have a lot of coal or gas to burn.