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  1. What we need is a dispensable sticker that you can wack on the side of
    a car/truck. Large enough to see from a distance, so you need to
    unfurl it from its storage in your jersey pocket, etc. The sticker
    has a message:

    Calm down.
    Stay off the drugs.
    Chill out.
    It's going to be alright.
    You'll get out of the traffic some day.

    But the key to this sticker is that it has an acid treatment that
    etches the paint off the vehicle, so the driver can't avoid the
    message by just ripping off the sticker.

    --
    TimC
    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up

  2. TimC said:

    But the key to this sticker is that it has an acid treatment that
    etches the paint off the vehicle, so the driver can't avoid the
    message by just ripping off the sticker.

    That leaves you open to liability of damage. Well serious dollars anyway.

    One option that one of our club members uses is about 1/2 A4 sized stickers
    that say "You shouldn't be parking here" (or words to that effect) used for
    those who insist in parking in disabled parking spots at the club without
    having a sticker.

    The adhesive side is of the "permanent" type, that doesn't come off real
    easy. In fact, if you leave it on for long enough, you need some serious
    elbow grease with solvents and a razor blade to even start to get it off.

    Works wonders on glass, especially when strategically placed in the line of
    sight of the driver.

    On paintwork, it'll stick between really well and not at all depending on
    the last time it was waxed.

    --
    Linux Registered User # 302622
    <http://counter.li.org>

  3. TimC said:

    Calm down.
    Stay off the drugs.
    Chill out.
    It's going to be alright.
    You'll get out of the traffic some day.

    Currently working on a politer version to be distributed in the NY, or your concept has legs, we could design & workshop it?

  4. TimC said:

    What we need is a dispensable sticker that you can wack on the side of
    a car/truck. Large enough to see from a distance, so you need to
    unfurl it from its storage in your jersey pocket, etc. The sticker
    has a message:

    Calm down.
    Stay off the drugs.
    Chill out.
    It's going to be alright.
    You'll get out of the traffic some day.

    Heh!

    At some point last month whilst I was riding my motorcycle to Phillip
    Island for the GP, I came up behind a car with a bumper sticker
    reading "Touched by an Angel".

    After some thought over dinner that evening, we decided that an
    appropriate companion sticker for it would be "Molested by a
    Clergyman." ;-)

    BTH

  5. TimC said:

    ... The sticker has a message:

    Calm down.
    Stay off the drugs.
    Chill out.
    It's going to be alright.
    You'll get out of the traffic some day.

    Traffic in Coona? We get a 5-minute rush hour at quittin' time here in
    Dubbo, but that's the only time you'll see traffic. What's going on up
    there?

    --
    John
    "Hello IT, have you tried turning it off and on again?"
    - Roy, "The IT Crowd"

  6. On 2007-11-12, John Pitts (aka Bruce)
    was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

    Quoted message said:
    TimC said:

    ... The sticker has a message:

    Calm down.
    Stay off the drugs.
    Chill out.
    It's going to be alright.
    You'll get out of the traffic some day.

    Traffic in Coona? We get a 5-minute rush hour at quittin' time here in
    Dubbo, but that's the only time you'll see traffic. What's going on up
    there?

    Nah, no road rages up here in the year I've been here.

    The idea was triggered by something I read in another froup (a rager
    truck driver who managed to push his way up 8 spots in the moving
    carpark). That and my memories of riding in Melbourne.

    Although, on night shift Saturday night, we had the yearly Festival of
    the Stars concert where Kate Ceberano (babe) sang. So all of Coona's
    cars drove back to town after the concert at 10:30. I happened to go
    out on the dome catwalk at about then, and saw a line of all 500 cars
    snaking their way back to town. I went back in to drag one of the
    observers out, and by then it had already mostly dissipated. 500
    cars, 50km trip to town, a large portion of which can be seen from the
    catwalk (we can see 1/10th of the state from up here, afterall), and
    yet this once a year peakhour lasted all of 5 minutes.

    --
    TimC
    I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat myself when under
    stress. I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat myself when
    under stress. I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat myself
    when under stress. I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat

  7. On Nov 12, 5:13 pm, cfsmtb <cfsmtb.2zx...@no-

    mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:
    TimC said:

    Calm down.
    Stay off the drugs.
    Chill out.
    It's going to be alright.
    You'll get out of the traffic some day.

    Currently working on a politer version to be distributed in the NY, or
    your concept has legs, we could design & workshop it?

    --
    cfsmtb

    I warm to the idea, but the rage potential is a little worrying!
    Maybe something more positive/less agro, e.g. "Cyclists - if you can't
    beat them, join them"?
    And a handbill through the window?

    (I know - you were just musing).

    Donga

  8. Donga said:

    On Nov 12, 5:13 pm, cfsmtb <cfsmtb.2zx...@no-

    mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:

    TimC Wrote:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Calm down.
    Stay off the drugs.
    Chill out.
    It's going to be alright.
    You'll get out of the traffic some day.

    Quoted message said:

    Currently working on a politer version to be distributed in the NY, or
    your concept has legs, we could design & workshop it?

    Quoted message said:

    --
    cfsmtb

    I warm to the idea, but the rage potential is a little worrying!
    Maybe something more positive/less agro, e.g. "Cyclists - if you can't
    beat them, join them"?
    And a handbill through the window?

    (I know - you were just musing).

    Donga

    I like some of these:
    http://cicle.org/properganda/properganda.html
    I'd really go for a cool picture with the words "Bicycles are
    freedom. Get some." Can't find a suitable picture though.

  9. [email hidden said:

    "]
    I like some of these:
    http://cicle.org/properganda/properganda.html
    I'd really go for a cool picture with the words "Bicycles are
    freedom. Get some." Can't find a suitable picture though.

    Think healthy, think the great outdoors, think perving on a well-built chap. Well for me anyway.

    For the rest of you there's this stuff ..
    http://www.glossy.tv/images/GS_Bicycle.jpg

  10. cfsmtb said:

    Think healthy, think the great outdoors, think perving on a well-built
    chap. Well for me anyway.

    For the rest of you there's this stuff ..http://www.glossy.tv/images/GS_Bicycle.jpg

    Heh! So now we know *that's* what got GS back into bicycling! ;-)

    BTH

  11. On Nov 13, 12:45 pm, cfsmtb <cfsmtb.2zy...@no-

    mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:
    Quoted message said:

    I like some of these:
    http://cicle.org/properganda/properganda.html
    I'd really go for a cool picture with the words "Bicycles are
    freedom. Get some." Can't find a suitable picture though.

    Think healthy, think the great outdoors, think perving on a well-built
    chap. Well for me anyway.

    For the rest of you there's this stuff ..http://www.glossy.tv/images/GS_Bicycle.jpg

    --
    cfsmtb

    I believe the right question is "High res?"

  12. Donga said:

    On Nov 13, 12:45 pm, cfsmtb <cfsmtb.2zy...@no-

    mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:
    Quoted message said:

    I like some of these:
    http://cicle.org/properganda/properganda.html
    I'd really go for a cool picture with the words "Bicycles are
    freedom. Get some." Can't find a suitable picture though.

    Think healthy, think the great outdoors, think perving on a well-built
    chap. Well for me anyway.

    For the rest of you there's this stuff ..http://www.glossy.tv/images/GS_Bicycle.jpg

    --
    cfsmtb

    I believe the right question is "High res?"

    Amazing how we all collectively head straight for the gutter! 😉

  13. cfsmtb said:


    Quoted message said:


    I like some of these:
    http://cicle.org/properganda/properganda.html
    I'd really go for a cool picture with the words "Bicycles are
    freedom. Get some." Can't find a suitable picture though.

    Think healthy, think the great outdoors, think perving on a well-built
    chap. Well for me anyway.

    For the rest of you there's this stuff ..
    http://www.glossy.tv/images/GS_Bicycle.jpg

    Mmmm... reminds me of that old Queen poster I have tucked away with the
    vinyl collection. Went with the tracks 'Bicycle Race' and 'Fat-bottomed
    Girls' More skin on show 🙂
    --
    Cheers
    Peter

    ~~~ ~ _@
    ~~ ~ _- \,
    ~~ (*)/ (*)

  14. TimC said:

    On 2007-11-12, John Pitts (aka Bruce)
    was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

    Quoted message said:

    Nah, no road rages up here in the year I've been here.

    Glad to hear it.

    Quoted message said:

    Although, on night shift Saturday night, we had the yearly Festival of
    the Stars concert where Kate Ceberano (babe) sang.

    I heard it was a great show. One of the locals cycled from Dubbo to
    Coona, and then up the mountain to the concert site. And managed to
    stay awake for the show!

    Quoted message said:

    So all of Coona's cars drove back to town after the concert at 10:30.
    I happened to go out on the dome catwalk at about then, and saw a
    line of all 500 cars snaking their way back to town. I went back in
    to drag one of the observers out, and by then it had already mostly
    dissipated. 500 cars, 50km trip to town, a large portion of which
    can be seen from the catwalk (we can see 1/10th of the state from up
    here, afterall), and yet this once a year peakhour lasted all of 5
    minutes.

    Would have been quite a spectacle. Lucky you caught it.

    --
    John
    Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for it makes them soggy and
    hard to light.

  15. BT Humble said:
    cfsmtb said:

    Think healthy, think the great outdoors, think perving on a well-built
    chap. Well for me anyway.

    For the rest of you there's this stuff ..http://www.glossy.tv/images/GS_Bicycle.jpg

    Heh! So now we know *that's* what got GS back into bicycling! ;-)

    Curses! Now everyone knows!!

    G-S

  16. Donga said:

    On Nov 13, 12:45 pm, cfsmtb <cfsmtb.2zy...@no-

    mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:

    [email hidden] Wrote:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    I like some of these:
    http://cicle.org/properganda/properganda.html
    I'd really go for a cool picture with the words "Bicycles are
    freedom. Get some." Can't find a suitable picture though.

    Quoted message said:

    Think healthy, think the great outdoors, think perving on a well-built
    chap. Well for me anyway.

    Quoted message said:

    For the rest of you there's this stuff ..http://www.glossy.tv/images/GS_Bicycle.jpg

    Quoted message said:

    --
    cfsmtb

    I believe the right question is "High res?"

    I need to get one of those posters to hang in the living room.

  17. Harng Goh said:

    I need to get one of those posters to hang in the living room.

    The girl at the front on the left, I think her seat is set to high, she is having trouble reaching the ground with her left foot.

    Hey wait on, they are all girls in the photo, oh wait on they are all wearing underwear!

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