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KTM have now won the motorcycle category for 15 years in a row .

Honda must be spewing, they threw millions of dollars over the last 12 months on their race team and they struggled with reliability issues. Go KTM.

Its funny how Toby could ride the whole stage to the end. But it was cancelled half way along at check point 2 because of the heat well after he already left check point 2. I guess Australians can perform in the heat better. There was also an American doing really well and was only 2nd to Toby on time but he may have clawed back time against his rivals if the stage wasnt cancelled. At the end of the day though, safey is first and not many bike riders can ride through desert dunes with temps over 40 degrees (47 at one point) like Tob Price can. I do feel that he has been disadvantaged though as he finished it and nobody else did.

You are obviously still walking around with rose colour glasses on. It is on a lot of different news feeds. Which part of it is BS?

Its common knowledge Don that multiple girls were sexually assaulted in Cologne Germany on news year eve by recently arrived refo's.

Toby is a gun in the desert sand dunes so he should do very well when they get to those stages.

I think they only use the name DAKAR is because it is the trade mark of the whole organisation that runs the Rally. They said one day they would like to take the race back to Europe and having the race ending in Dakar Senegal but that is a long way off.

Toby Price - Australian Redbull KTM rider had won the 2 stage.

I just watched the SBS episode, I religiously watch it every year. I am KTM bias though, I own two of them.

I was talkng to a bloke who joined the SES, he left after about 5 minutes ( well longer than that, but 5 minutes sounds melodramatic). Anyway they were getting ladder instruction and the person holding the ladder had to call out loud what step number the person was on . He walked out saying something about kinder garden. Anyway I have been told this story and I have not witnessed it myself so it may be crap.

I like most people who have been around long enough, assess everything I do when carring out a ' risky' task. Eg- when cutting down or pruning trees. I look at the "what if's" as in what can happen if I do this or that , or how windy is it, will the best option be to use wedges. I used to cut and sell fire wood back in the nineties for extra income so I know my way around chainsaws. My step son bought a house up the road that has been a rental for 19 years, the back yard was heavily over grown with trees. I cut a lot down, pruned a few and left a couple because they are too risky in their position for me to drop. I said to him to get a professional lopper in for those couple.

Lets not get over board fellas, most people with a few brain cells knows what is right from wrong and what is potentially dangerous. Dumb people are always going to prove that they are dumb and do something dangerous when something is dangerous, its natures way.

I have been using 10 for about 4 months, so far so good

The trouble is with all this safety BS is that people are getting to the stage that they can't or are not allowed to think for themselves.

At the previous circus we had toolboxes every morning. We had hazards hunts, safety observations and safety moments where we had to give examples of when we saw or did something which was not entirely done safely . Then they brought in Body activation where everybody gets to stretch and muck around after tool box. I was like of course, are you farking kiddling me ? When does any actual work get done?