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get them hemmed or something dog

Is this with your legs bent or standing?

>>894244
Standing

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Among them is Liberal party honorary treasurer Andrew Burnes, a close friend of former Federal treasurer Joe Hockey.

Mr Burnes and his travel company, Australian Outback Travel, donated at least $150,000 to the Liberals in the past 15 years, including $80,000 in the year 2013-2014.

He paid just over $7 million for new offices for his business at Laconia House at 179 Normanby Road, near the West Gate freeway in March 2012, the most expensive of about 80 land acquisitions in Fishermans Bend in the 16-month period between the drawing of the boundaries and the July rezoning.

Agents estimate the current value of his Normanby Road property at more than $20 million. High rise development is allowed on the site and a permit for such development would dramatically increase the property's value. Nearby, a two-tower project with 525 apartments that was given planning approval in May is now a project worth more than $130 million.

Another eyebrow-raising purchase at Fishermans Bend was by one-time Liberal activist and current BRW rich lister Harry Stamoulis, who was negotiating a $24 million purchase of a large industrial site in South Melbourne when Mr Guy rezoned the area in 2012.

Stamoulis' proposal for 258 townhouses was the first to win planning approval from Mr Guy. Agents now value his Ingles Street property at more than $60 million.

The fortuitous timing of the Stamoulis purchase has been the subject of much commentary among agents active in the precinct, planners, and even within the state bureaucracy.

Others with Liberal links had bought into the area years prior to the rezoning, but were active party donors around the period the boundaries were drawn and gazetted.

Auto dealer John Ayre is a member of a consortium proposing a $1 billion apartment complex on former Crown land at 150 Turner St and at 351 Ingles Street in Port Melbourne.

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The first site was Crown land gifted to the group in 2003 and they paid a mere $1.5 million for the second site in the 1990s; agents now value them around $80 million.

Mr Ayre is a shareholder of ULR Automotive, which donated $25,000 to the Liberals in 2013. He personally donated $13,500 in 2013-2014.

In the mid-1990s BRW rich lister and Liberal donor John Higgins paid $936,000 for a site at 297 Ingles Street that is now worth an estimated $15 million. He donated $25,000 to the Liberal party in 2013.

Some party donors bought in to Fishermans Bend after the rezoning, but have made significant paper profits under flexible height limits introduced by Mr Guy, now leader of the Victorian Liberal Party.

Notable among those donors is developer and Liberal supporter Bill McNee's company MaxVic Holdings, which paid $10.1 million for a Johnson Street site in 2014.

In May, this year McNee's development company VicLand won state government approval to build more than 1300 apartments across four towers on the site under rules established by Mr Guy.

It is now seeking to "flip" the site for an expected price of more than $70 million – a seven-fold increase on the purchase price.

Mr McNee's VicLand corporation donated $150,000 to the Liberals between 2012 and 2014.

Other Liberal donors to make windfalls include property veterans like the Buxton family (MAB Corporation) who had been sitting on low-value industrial land in South Melbourne for decades.

After paying $483,000 for a site in Gladstone Street site in the 1990s, MAB sold the site with a planning permit for three apartment towers in April this year for a price believed to be $37 million.

At the time the rezoning decision was made, there was no binding master plan, height limits, or any mechanism to capture any of the rise in property values to ultimately pay for the infrastructure and services of a residential community that could be large as the City of Ballarat.

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Nor was there a strategy or funds for decontamination, transport, open space or affordable housing.

Instead, the rise in land values delivered billions of dollars in windfall to landowners.

Senior planners remain bemused as to why the large-scale rezoning at Fishermans Bend occurred when government-sponsored Docklands next door remained unfinished and planning had already started for publicly-owned sites in North Melbourne and E Gate in West Melbourne.

Property industry sources are adamant that one of the reasons was the influence of some long-standing landholders and speculators who are also Liberal Party supporters.

Property values were further inflated by the minister's invitation to developers to lodge applications for projects anywhere within the precinct's wide boundaries (rather than release sites in stages as backed by many experts), and before any planning controls were in place.

Mr Guy has repeatedly refused to be interviewed by Fairfax Media about his Fishermans Bend decision. So too has he refused to answer a specific questions about his actions.

Instead he issued a written statement: "Melbourne is growing by nearly 2000 people every week and Fishermans Bend is a vital part of meeting these housing needs and that is why it was one of our election policies in 2010."

In fact, Fishermans Bend was not one of the Liberals' election policies in 2010.

In April, Labor planning minister Richard Wynne said he would "recast" plans for Fishermans Bend – a move he said reflected the high level of government, community and property industry concern about the project.

But he now faces the difficult decision of how far to go given a string of approvals have already been granted and land values have been geared to the premium of high rise residential development.

Mr Burnes is overseas and did not return calls or emails. Mr Higgins, Mr Ayre and Mr Stamoulis did not return calls.

Should have gotten a front brake instead, but meh.

>>893704
Not OP but why would a front brake be more benefitial than a rear if it's on a free wheel and not a fixed cog?

Lets see your so called bike anon.

>>893240
Why

>>893241
It's a folding bike

>>893233

I own a Brompton. If you actually live in a cramped apartment, need it to fold under your work desk, want to do a multi-modal commute a train, bus or get your bike transported in almost any car, you did good. If not: no. While the Brompton is an amazing ride given its design compromises required to fold, it does not compare to a full sized bicycle of a similar price.

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And the nigger-tier IRT Lo-V, which was designed without any forethought and requires an entire fucking crew to operate.

I wish I could ride on those things without being surrounded by sweaty weird foamers

I feel like I have cooties standing in a crowded vintage subway train

Now I just wait for the next one to come along

Fuck foamers, they love to take a fun thing and make it creepy

You're one of them, aren't you op. Yes you are, you sweaty gross foamer you

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Go big or go home, I say. The Central London Railway (now the central Line) used to have locomotive pulled trains going through it's tunnels.

>>892084
>In terms of fuel efficiency and general capacity, what would be the best airliner to replace the E-3 sentry?
777 or 787

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>>892084
>>892085
>In terms of fuel efficiency
that would be some AIRBUS of course...

A330 is untouchable in fuel economy

>>>/o/

>>892013
desu

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Learner 250. OK.
This shape because all that plastic doesn't have any effect until you're flat out in top and flat out in top doesn't help you learn how not to fall of while parking.
Not falling off while parking,turning is a useful skill when you have a $200 a side bits of plastic plus the pedals and levers to replace.

>>891011
majorly take it back and get a proper bike.
as you can get a great bike for $850, that one is a rip off.

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What the fuck is that?

>>891012
Yeah but muh gimmick.
>>891020
OMG IT FOLDS

That looks ridiculously uncomfortable

>>890686
The new bicycle with no concept of geometry

>not a single video in the official site

I can't imagine pedaling with those things on your hips can be too comfortable

>>883691
sure, would make a great fashion accessory for your cage so that all the other cagers know that you're slightly less out of shape than them. but not too much less so that they want to murder you.

>>883694
That's not very helpful.

Maybe explain what you would use it for?

>>883277
Nice to see average people are waking up and fighting back against the Cycling Justice Warriors.

But their same criticisms apply to regular lane paint on the roads kek.

>>883279

Anti-social nerd, these are the amazing stats from that California town:
>the city reported that 70 percent of its students walk or bike to school.

In most of the USA retarded parents waste their lives becoming glorified chauffeurs to their fat, spoiled kids. Go to almost any school without bus service at the start and end of school and there will be a huge traffic jam as idiot parents wait dozens of minutes to an hour to get their turn to pick up their kid from the front of the school.

Only nerds like you rail against worthwhile causes using the meme of "social justice" as if anyone supports your social injustice geekery.

I'd have thought cycle fags would have been fully behind this. After all, painting some lines on the road is not a substitute for proper cycling infrastructure.

>>848667
>Why couldn't we have this?

We did have it, then it was scrapped.

>Why does the US, and California in particular have such shitty public transport? is it american greed and capitalism?

Because right now in California Jerry Brown and his cronies are more concerned with building grandiose legacy projects and giving each other kickbacks via the CAHSR project than they are interested in building practical, nonsexy solutions to metropolitan and regional transportation problems. The solution is $200 billion for local and regional transit solutions that will benefit most residents of the state on a daily basis and actually encourage people to take public transit, not $200 billion for a white elephant line from SF to LA that most Californians will ride maybe once or twice in their lives for the wow factor and then go back to driving everywhere.

>>848667Pacific Electric died because the Southern Pacific did not want to maintain passenger service,trains or trolley. LA Motor Coach was the only ATL owned company and the trolleys were gone when the MTA took over.

>let the old girl get scrapped, we'll have that shiny new monorail in 5 years anyway

>>895875
I think you should grease your headset bearings desu senpai

>>895875
>I ran over a nail or something and got a puncture in my tyre.
Continental gatorskins will prevent that in the future

Anyway the steering problems sound like they're caused by a loose headset. See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P4dYsxazTU

>>895875
I'd just replace the entire headset, maybe you tweaked the fork too.

>complains about other popular threads because can't find anything interesting to say about own thread

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>>894139
This is not how you start a non-bike thread

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That's a columbus dove. That means it is nice. I think it's probably just a conventional kind, and you're missing the plates that clamp either side of the saddle rails and that that bolt threads into. You might find parts that will work on it at a bike co-op / second hand bike shop. It's short as fuck though, you might want something longer anyway. It probably has the side printed on it, but if it doesn't measure it with calipers (cheap from an autoparts store, get mechanical ones). There's a small chance it isn't the correct size post for the bike.

Charge plug for cheap, or i really like Selle Regal, Royal, Turbo, Concor or Flite 1990. Comfort is paramount though.

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>>893936
sweet, thanks mate. will post the restoration once i have everything i need.

Here's the bike. It has some nice stuff on it from what i'm told, pretty new to road bikes.