Taz, I agree with 100% and share your passion mate. It's like you've taken the words right out of my mouth. I haven't been in your ear aleady have I
For those of you who don't live in Canberra, imagine living in a town where:
there are awesome lakes and dams, but no powered watercraft
there are thousands of acres of forest, but no dirt bike riding
there is an awesome dragway, that will probably never be used again
there was a V8 supercar race, that they scheduled in winter (max 9'c days), on skinny two lane roads with concrete barriers on the actual road itself making it even narrower. The GMC was setup for failure right from the word go.
.... oh and whenever you see a pushbike, you have stop what you're doing and hail the almighty powers who think they own the road (even though they don't pay rego but have cycle paths smoother than a babies bum and longer than this rant
I'm done.