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It was outside Melbourne so pretty quiet - certainly not the A40 but more like a Chiltern lane. Unlike a Chiltern lane though, drivers would be doing 100kph along it.
I'm not sure if they still use dead-turns or not. It wouldn't surprise me if the bunch of fuckwits in charge had banned bikes on the road because a cyclist once scared an old lady that stepped out into the road...I've done both the open water swimming and left shoes in transition. Still alive. You lot worry too much about the critters in Oz. Fuckwits in V8s are far more likely to kill you than our creepy crawlies.
hippy
Most of the wildlife can kill you but there are so few people that you're unlucky if you see a car from one hour to the next; that's bound to have an effect on the TT and Tri regulations. You wouldn't want to do either an open water swim or leave your shoes unattended in transition, but a U-ey on a major highway is pretty risk free :-)