Will NP ban ebikes during fire bans?

[carpetrunner]

I hear an ebike battery was breached and burst into flames on Manly Dam last weekend?

Are ebikes a bushfire hazard?
Will National Parks ban them during a fire ban?

- discuss

 

[moorey]

Hopefully it’s a TFB all day every day, if so. Small price to pay.

 

[mxh]

Best not take your mobile phone out with you either then. Many more reports of those bursting into flames than e-bikes.

 

[BT180]

Been riding behind a mate and saw sparks fly out when the bike's rear end hit a rock. Could theoretically ban all bikes.

 

[pink poodle]

and let's not forget the intense heat that brake pads and rotors can generate.

 

[moorey]

Most parks are closed on a TFB already, you know?

 

[silentbutdeadly]

Simple fact is no. All NPs are closed on TOBAN days...in NSW anyway.

And if your e-bike catches fire whilst you are where you aren't supposed to be then more fool you.

 

[downunderdallas]

Simple fact is no. All NPs are closed on TOBAN days...in NSW anyway.

Pretty sure that's not the case in WA, they would be closed half the year

 

[fatboyonabike]

Hopefully it’s a TFB all day every day, if so. Small price to pay.

Sorry for my ignorance, TFB..are you referring to Technophobia?

 

[moorey]

Sorry for my ignorance, TFB..are you referring to Technophobia?

How do you even get there with those letters?

 

[foxpuppet]

How do you even get there with those letters?

I have a fobia of incorrect spelling


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[moorey]

I have a fobia of incorrect spelling


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*inkurrect

 

[Scotty T]

and let's not forget the intense heat that brake pads and rotors can generate.

Just in. Massive fire caused by "rotor burn"

A fire broke out today destroying a trail network, 3000 hectares of bush and a shuttle bus. The cause was a man known only as pink poodle, who was out "shredding the gnar" with some "enduro bros" which is mountain biker talk for riding some dirt trails with others in the most radical way possible.

On a long descent his front brake failed causing him to overheat his rear brake to the point of ignition which is known to the mountain bikers as "rotor burn" due to the effect when one touches the overheated rotor. During a "schralp" on a section of track known as a berm the rider put the back wheel into the bush and his burning rotor set the area ablaze. The bike is ok and pink poodle escaped injury and charges. Disc brakes are now banned on catastrophic fire days.

This just in, actually someone just chucked a ciggy out of their car. Or didn't teach their kids about fire. Or was just bad. Or dry lightning happened...

 

[stirk]

Just in. Massive fire caused by "rotor burn"

A fire broke out today destroying a trail network, 3000 hectares of bush and a shuttle bus. The cause was a man known only as pink poodle, who was out "shredding the gnar" with some "enduro bros" which is mountain biker talk for riding some dirt trails with others in the most radical way possible.

On a long descent his front brake failed causing him to overheat his rear brake to the point of ignition which is known to the mountain bikers as "rotor burn" due to the effect when one touches the overheated rotor. During a "schralp" on a section of track known as a berm the rider put the back wheel into the bush and his burning rotor set the area ablaze. The bike is ok and pink poodle escaped injury and charges. Disc brakes are now banned on catastrophic fire days.

This just in, actually someone just chucked a ciggy out of their car. Or didn't teach their kids about fire. Or was just bad. Or dry lightning happened...

Love them sizzels the rotor makes when red hot!


Ban smoking in cars will reduce grass fires in suburban areas and maybe a few big bush fires.

Fuck it just banish ciggy butt flickers to Mars

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

I have a fobia of incorrect spelling


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its a perfectly cromulent word

 

[Lazmo]

its a perfectly cromulent word

Ha ha, you have no idea how much you just tugged at my heart strings... my exBIL, leader/singer/guitarist in one of our bands, possibly the funniest man on the planet, but has sadly passed away from luekemia... loved to throw in cromulent, as a verbal curveball.

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

Ha ha, you have no idea how much you just tugged at my heart strings... my exBIL, leader/singer/guitarist in one of our bands, possibly the funniest man on the planet, but has sadly passed away from luekemia... loved to throw in cromulent, as a verbal curveball.

Then he was clearly a man of character and wit, one who would have embiggened the spirit of all he met.

 

[pink poodle]

I need some turnip juice.

 

[Lazmo]

Then he was clearly a man of character and wit, one who would have embiggened the spirit of all he met.

Ha ha... Dan was a gentle little guy, but with a larger than life personality and razor sharp wit... his embiggenment capabilities were boundless.

Pretty handy rider too... motorbike that is. I've ridden next to him sitting in full lotus position on his Bonneville at the old ton.