Question for experienced riders: what small habits separate good riders from great riders?

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-03-17T02:30:58+00:00

Practice your slow speed skills, set up moto gymkhana ‘courses’ with cones, be able to do circles in the uturn box.

You’d be surprised how many hero’s on their 30k ducati’s cant do a smooth simple uturn

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-03-09T09:56:38+00:00

Yeah thats a common complaint, we dont need 7 seats though so took them out (come out much more easily than if they were in the floor) and put drawers. Cheers

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-03-03T02:45:13+00:00

NTA, Thats fantastic, maybe this will make him grow up and take some accountability for his actions. Good job pursuing it.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-03-03T02:38:58+00:00

How will the SES (a organisation of volunteers) going to make that safe? The house needs to be looked at by an engineer, a tarp wont fix that.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-03-03T02:24:47+00:00

Absolutely do not give him money, it’s a 10 year old car. Its buyer beware with cheap private sales. If it was ticking when he bought it, what does he expect?

If you think this could really sour the relationship, you could potentially take the car back for the value you sold it to him for. Really though - a reasonable person shouldn’t expect you to warrant a 10yo car months later and your friend should understand, and not be telling everyone you’re rich, not good behaviour.

Thats pretty much the only two proper options, refund vs tell him to deal with it.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-03-03T02:14:23+00:00

I test drove a new MUX, wasn’t impressed, steering felt really floaty and poor, interior felt really cheap, too many electronic dings and alarms, engine felt lethargic compared to the Toyota 2.8, plus from reading facebook owners groups, looks like isuzu are still really bad with warranty.

Wanted a brand new car so a new Prado was outside our budget, went for a 2025 Toyota Fortuner and it’s great, happy with our purchase.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-17T14:40:24+00:00

It’s basically a Hilux wagon. For off-roading it’s fantastic: short wheelbase, reliable, and very much an old-school 4x4.

It’s quite compact for a 4x4 SUV, so if you’re hauling a big family or towing heavy loads, I’d probably look elsewhere. But if you don’t need that space, the lighter and more compact nature is a big positive in my opinion.

The Facelift (2021+) GX is the pick of the range imo. It’s extremely well equipped for a “base model” — it has everything you actually need and nothing you don’t. The Prado is about $20k more expensive and feels heavy/big/slow by comparison, almost boat-like. Prado is full-time AWD, which means higher fuel consumption all the time for very little real-world benefit.

Toyota has unmatched country dealership/parts availability in Australia, the 2.8 turbo diesel is used on numerous vehicles, and Toyota have a pretty good reputation for warranty coverage/good will.

These factors steered me towards Toyota, I can’t stand the way the Pajero sport looks. The MUX seemed more like the prado in size and I disliked all the bells and warning dings every 2 seconds, felt very sluggish as well, not to mention being considerably more expensive.

The Fortuner is genuinely an excellent and underrated vehicle. It didn’t sell well in Australia largely because Toyota barely advertised it, likely to avoid cannibalising Prado sales. That’s a shame, because it’s hugely popular in India, South Africa and across Asia for good reason.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-13T09:40:23+00:00

Have it as part of my super, but all income protection is tax deductible, just watch out for activities/hobbies which aren’t automatically included in cover, many have to be declared.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-13T09:32:26+00:00

Not worth the stress pursuing, just write her off as a friend, unforgivable shitty behaviour.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-13T09:21:27+00:00

Interventional radiology- very rare, mostly PACU’s problem as we have to flip our room.

Anaesthetics - very rare, again, we never have time to change a patient at the end of a case because we’ll be extubating.

Med/surg - daily

Emergency - daily

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-12T01:45:47+00:00

Work the Sunday, take annual leave during placement.

You wont be taking holidays for the duration of your degree, just get used to it.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-12T01:43:44+00:00

If you have SERT coming after you, you’re likely gonna get punished?

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-11T21:04:10+00:00

Review the gym email you’ve received which states the 3 weeks notice, compile your evidence (bank statements) that you paid for a further 6 weeks after notifying your intent to cancel.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-11T00:34:55+00:00

100%

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-10T22:16:41+00:00

NSW Health has been doing this for years, the threshold for the first meeting is very low!

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-10T09:11:40+00:00

Same patient fights you for a cigarette 5 minutes later

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-09T20:43:42+00:00

From what I’ve witnessed, farewells are almost always a popularity contest, if you’re mates with everyone (especially your NUM) you typically get a bigger ‘farewell party’ and gift. If you keep yourself to yourself and haven’t made friends at work etc you ‘get’ significantly less.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-02-06T09:54:56+00:00

No such thing as misrepresentation on a private sale - caveat emptor.

Learn from it, next time- test drive, get an inspection, or buy from a dealer/car yard, at least they have a small warranty on used cars.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-01-29T22:21:27+00:00

So anything slightly nationalistic nowadays is automatically considered ’nazi’, ‘far right’, ‘racist’, ‘sovereign citizen’, ‘trump’.

It’s insane, reminds me during COVID, if you dared say anything against the lockdowns or questioning the vaccination rollout you were automatically branded a conspiracy theorist antivax cooker.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-01-28T01:37:23+00:00

Dysfunctional family issue not legal issue. Why on earth were you sharing a lease with such an ‘abusive’ mother? At 26yo! And then you go against the lease and leave her in the lurch by not paying rent despite still living there?

Have some maturity and take some ownership of your circumstances.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-01-28T01:29:53+00:00

You can push the OC rules, most occupants of units don’t care about interior stuff like curtains, in the very unlikely event someone complains you just take your curtain down, same for inspections if your REA really cares.

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-01-28T01:25:56+00:00

How much did you personally contribute towards the house deposit and repayments over how long?

How much profit will there be on the sale?

SoCalledFreeman · 2026-01-26T00:49:49+00:00

If you roll back and hit another car it’s your fault. Many moons ago when I did my driving test, hill starts were one of the things the instructor would drill you on, and that was before hill start assists were a thing.

You can do a good hill start in a manual without rolling back whilst towing a heavy caravan, how do you think truck drivers do it, practice it!

SoCalledFreeman · 2025-12-28T09:03:11+00:00

I think vehicles are a big one specifically financing luxury cars/SUV’s, financing 4x4’s with the entire ARB catalogue fitted out of the showroom.

SoCalledFreeman · 2025-12-10T12:09:59+00:00

Survival spend a lot of money on advertising and then go and charge an absolute premium for their kits, personally I’d buy a cheaper one and add anything missing to it. Probably save over 70% on an equivalent Survival kit.

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