Wet-bikes
Sir,—Mr Mike Phillips is incorrect when he says that “the group wanting the wet-bikes banned from Sumner Bay Is a minority” (November 6). Many people from Scarborough to Clifton Hill are fed up with the continual noise from the wetbikes most week-ends and often during week nights. To say they are ridden 200 m from the shore is untrue, as on many occasions I have witnessed them operating well within 200 m at great speed, weaving among surfers, canoeists and people on surf skis. Messrs Phillips and Reid may be correct In saying that not all wet-bike riders are loud-mouthed louts. However, the ones I have come across are certainly not as polite as Mr Philips would have us believe. I K>e nothing against the wet-blkcs per se, but Sumner
Bay is not the place for them. If I wanted to live on the Gold Coast, I would move to Australia. — Yours, etc., M. BEANLAND. November 17, 1987.
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