Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

This is off topic, but I know this thread gets a fair number of Australian eyeballs, so here goes. I just came across an ABC TV show called Upper Middle Bogan that looks fun. But what is a Bogan? From the show they look like gearheads and hot rodders, kind of like the folks I meet at car and bike shows, would I be wrong? Is this an insult to be called a Bogan like Trailer Trash would be in the US?
 
most dangerous is the semi literate bogan, almost a calling really, few achieve real skill at being a bogan all the time, there are sub classes of course, where i came from ( working industrial area ) had labels for all sorts, later in life i knew them as raving hetrosexuals, bash first and bash again when in doubt, was the mantra... some of the high calling class offshoot of the ubiquitous bogan, were found, biker pubs my power trio played at in the late 70's, first time i ever saw females knocked out in front of me while i was playing bass... caring male companion... we hired a Hells Angle after that, just needed the one.... as dance floor security. Not sure relevant though history is part of current outcomes. j
 
Spotted this parked at my Yacht Club yesterday. I haven't seen one of these Chinese things up close before. Quality actually looks pretty good. Appears to be on a par with Japanese bikes. No reason why it shouldn't be I suppose. No idea what it rides like.

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There was a time in Oz before The Bogon ira when there was something called a Larrikin. Paul Hogan was one, a bit of a piss-taker but harmless. It defined a person who didn't like stuffed shirts or Hiporasy. Straight talking with no bullshit. There mostly extinct these days. Oz was a pretty insulated place not that long ago before mass Imigation and our now expanded horizons culturally. When I was a kid eating Garlic was a hanging offence. Back then I didn't even know what it was that these people hated so much.
 
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