Wombat
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- Bluff, Queensland
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I would like to see someone come up with a logical sane reason as to why you need a massive polished alloy bullbar in the middle of Brisbane? Come on...we all know damn well that maybe 50% of bullbars in the whole country, and up to 90%+ in the cities, are fitted as a pure wank factor and to bully thier way through in traffic...they know no-one is going to challange right of way, and they use it.
Anyone with a motorbike will know what I mean...you see it every day, usually on shiny 4x4's with 20" chrome wheels and half a tonne of polished alloy hanging off the front...obviously the most dirt they see is when they're driven out on the footpath to be washed each week. They know no-one is going to argue if they run a give way sign, and make the most of it.
As for people who go bush, they know who they are, it is usually quite obvious who they are, and no-one says a word about them...it is the people who obviously fit them for the show-off factor which people don't like.
If they can make regulations governing other things around us, depending on genuine need to have it, they can do it with bullbars.
Why should what would have been a minor traffic bingle turn into a fatal just because some wanker wants to show off with the biggest bullbar he can purchase to bully his way through city traffic?
...and yes, I do have an axe to grind...a few years back one of my sister-in-laws ended up in hospital with a written off car after a tool in a Falcon ute ran a give way sign and t-boned her...it was fitted with a bullbar which was so oversized it looked like it belonged on the front of an F100 instead of an XE Falcon. No damage to his Falcon apart from pushing the bar back a bit, my sis-in-laws VH Commodore folded up like an accordian. Prick. Cars are designed with crumple zones for a reason, and I can only hope and pray that the next time a moron in the city with a massive bullbar has an accident, he finds out a few physics lessons in the transfer of energy directly through the stiff bullbar and chassis mount directly to his body instead of, as designed, through the energy-absorbing crumple zones as the factory intended. :ranting:
Anyone with a motorbike will know what I mean...you see it every day, usually on shiny 4x4's with 20" chrome wheels and half a tonne of polished alloy hanging off the front...obviously the most dirt they see is when they're driven out on the footpath to be washed each week. They know no-one is going to argue if they run a give way sign, and make the most of it.
As for people who go bush, they know who they are, it is usually quite obvious who they are, and no-one says a word about them...it is the people who obviously fit them for the show-off factor which people don't like.
If they can make regulations governing other things around us, depending on genuine need to have it, they can do it with bullbars.
Why should what would have been a minor traffic bingle turn into a fatal just because some wanker wants to show off with the biggest bullbar he can purchase to bully his way through city traffic?
...and yes, I do have an axe to grind...a few years back one of my sister-in-laws ended up in hospital with a written off car after a tool in a Falcon ute ran a give way sign and t-boned her...it was fitted with a bullbar which was so oversized it looked like it belonged on the front of an F100 instead of an XE Falcon. No damage to his Falcon apart from pushing the bar back a bit, my sis-in-laws VH Commodore folded up like an accordian. Prick. Cars are designed with crumple zones for a reason, and I can only hope and pray that the next time a moron in the city with a massive bullbar has an accident, he finds out a few physics lessons in the transfer of energy directly through the stiff bullbar and chassis mount directly to his body instead of, as designed, through the energy-absorbing crumple zones as the factory intended. :ranting:
