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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.

Still number oneToby has won stage 9 & leads by 24 minutes

 

Well done Toby

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-13/aussie-toby-price-extends-dakar-rally-lead/7085670

 

Dakar Rally: Australian Toby Price extends overall motorbike lead with stage-nine victory

 

Updated 25 minutes ago

 

PHOTO: Australian Toby Price en route to victory on stage nine. (AFP: Franck Fife)

 

MAP: Argentina

 

Australian Toby Price has pushed his overall lead in the motorbike category of the Dakar Rally to almost half an hour with victory on stage nine.

 

In his quest to become the first Australian to win in any category of the gruelling race, Price scored his fifth stage win as he comfortable beat Argentine Honda rider Kevin Benavides to the line.

 

Price won the stage by seven minutes from Benavides and finished 10 minutes faster than third-quickest Stefan Svitko.

 

The 28-year-old New South Welshman has a lead of 24 minutes and 47 seconds over Svitko, with Chile's Pablo Quintanilla almost eight minutes further back.

 

"We've got through pretty good," Price said.

 

"We made a couple of little mistakes around the 100km mark.

 

"We got a little bit lost but, luckily, we found the way point and got ourselves back on track and going again.

 

"It was just good that we didn't get lost. It was definitely tricky navigation today."

 

Organisers stopped the race after the second checkpoint due to extreme heat, meaning Price was unable to fully capitalise on his dominant showing and his main rival, Portuguese rider Paulo Goncalves was given a lifeline by the possible application of a grouped time.

 

Goncalves was three minutes behind Price for the stage when a branch pierced his radiator on the first leg of the marathon stage, where riders are not allowed assistance from their crew or access to parts.

 

Meanwhile, Carlos Sainz moved atop the overall standings by winning the stage as Sebastien Loeb fell further behind after struggling in sandy conditions.

 

Spanish veteran Sainz, driving a Peugeot, held off the Minis of Erik van Loon and Mikko Hirvonen by 10 seconds and 17 seconds respectively.

 

"It was a very demanding course, physically speaking, with a lot of off-road, navigation and vegetation," Sainz said.

 

Stephane Peterhansel, who finished 9:12 behind Peugeot team-mate Sainz, lost the command of the overall standings to the Spaniard, and now trails by 7:03.

 

The rally ends on Sunday morning (AEDT) in Rosario, Argentina.

 

ABC/wires

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.

Only amongst common people... What a load of BS Daryl. I would say you should know better but....sorry.

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

Keep it up Toby Well done.

 

Australian Toby Price has won the fifth stage of the Dakar Rally to move into third place in the motorbike standings.

 

Price, who won the second stage, is competing in the race for just the second time after finishing third last year.

 

The 28-year-old finished the stage between Jujuy in Argentina and Uyuni in Bolivia in four hours, three minutes and 44 seconds, edging French Red Bull KTM Factory team-mate Antoine Meo by two minutes and 21 seconds before a five-minute penalty dropped Meo back to eighth.

 

That allowed two more KTM riders, Slovnaft's Stefan Svitko (4:06:17) and Red Bull's Matthias Walkner (4:06:24), to finish second and third.

 

"This marathon stage was definitely difficult. Today was a little bit tricky with the navigation. I had to stay on top of the game," Price said.

 

"I caught a couple of other guys and got in some dust. I made a couple of little errors in the end there, because I was a little too worried to take my eyes off the road. It was a pretty crazy track."

 

Slovakia's Svitko is currently two seconds ahead of Price in the overall standings, with Honda's Paulo Goncalves a further 105 seconds ahead, despite finishing 8:56 behind Price on stage five.

 

Meanwhile, nine-time world rally champion Sebastien Loeb continued to make light work of his Dakar debut by claiming his third stage win on the gruelling event.

 

The French driver, behind the wheel of a Peugeot, took the win to extend his lead in the overall standings.

 

Loeb won the 327-kilometre timed run in 3:32:34sec with team-mates Carlos Sainz and Stephane Peterhansel completing a sweep for the French manufacturer.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-08/australian-toby-price-wins-fifth-dakar-stage-into-third-overall/7075616

It shouldn't be called DAKAR though as it has been relocated due to the hostility of the citizenry on the original route. Nev

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.

Here's another example... I gave a chuck-glider to my grandkids who flew it after school when it landed on a veranda gutter. It was just out of reach for a tall man and my daughter asked where a ladder was. This caused a panic among the school staff as the teacher who had ( no kidding) the only Ladder License could not be found.

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?

Dazza im not having a go at ya....im trying to protect you and your last post does that perfectly well... cheers and happy new years!!

A relative of mine works for the NSW police in intel and they do troll forums looking for these admissions to crimes... they have intel on certain members, then when they get enough to bother they pounce and gather evidence... so just be warned!

The internet is one of their most productive way of finding and prosecuting crimes...

Careful dazza you just incriminated him and you! that wasnt smart! Best to speak in 3rd person when talking about that sort of stuff!

I thought I would generate some income by doing Test and Tagging of electrical tools. Current WHS legislation says that this equipment must be tested regularly:

"If you are a business or employer or other PCBU (Person carrying on a Business or Undertaking) you must make sure that electrical equipment is regularly inspected and tested by a competent person."

 

"All equipment used in a higher risk operating environment in which the normal use of electrical equipment exposes the equipment to operating conditions that are likely to result in damage to the equipment or a reduction in its expected life span must be tested and tagged. This higher risk operating environment contains conditions that involve exposure to moisture, heat, vibration, mechanical, damage, corrosive chemicals or dust, and is commonly called a hostile environment.

 

All items in a hostile environment must therefore be tested and tagged in accordance with AS/NZS 3760:2010. In a Construction environments these items are to be tested and tagged in accordance with AS/NZS 3012:2010."

 

 

After door-knocking for business without any PCBUs showing the slightest interest, I contacted WorkCover NSW to ask if they carried out workplace inspections to see if the requirements were being met. Their response? "We only look at the test and tag records if there has been an incident." Tell that to the mother of a sixteen year-old kid who has been frizzled because of an unsafe electrical appliance.

 

Obviously another example of "It's not a crime until you get caught" (accidentally typed 'court'). The money I spent gaining the qualification and purchasing testing equipment was money down the drain, and that brought me into the area of environmental management - another area where legislation designed to reduce the impact of big business falls heavily onto the neck of small business.

 

Right now I'm drafting Safety Management Plans for bus operators. Even though Transport for NSW provides an example document on its website, a lot of the operators I contact don't have a plan suited to their operations, and what they do have mostly has never been shown to their employees.

 

So, "Yes", WHS legislation is a good starting point for the safety of everyone in the community, but until PCBUs see it as an asset for their businesses, they will fail to promote a climate of safety.

 

It has been said that "Rules are for the direction of fools and the guidance of wise men." The crux of the matter is that the rules must provide a solution to a problem, and those who have to live by them must be made aware of them. That never seems to happen.

 

OME

Ps- this is not the correct procedure of course as I am not quailified to fill the tag out but I don't give a toss and the qualified person doesn't either. Its just another silly hoop to jump through when working in the construction industry.

When I worked for the previous circus, I was supposed to wear a hard hat when inside a restricted fenced area around massive ponds. These ponds are in the middle of no where, so the hard hat would only be used to protect me from over flying bird do do. I also was supposed to wear gloves when doing every manual task which was also a crock of crap.

I guess the 29 year German was expecting another type of bang.

Off course not Dazza,

If you did not read about it in the Murdoch press................

 

It does not exist

I have a cousin who is married to an Indonesian from West Papua. They regularly travel up there with their son, and up into the hills.The main atrocity is when a pig is killed for the BBQ.

The Indonesians have for years carry out atrocities in West Papua and nobody in government seems to care.

Found this big bugger in the hanger, biggest I have seen for ages.