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The Hong Kong tailor, Gordon Yao, is planning an Australia trip in Feb 2012.

http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com/2010/10/guest-post-gordon-yao-style.html



beerbudget said:

Hi. all. Wanted to find other's experience of dry cleaners in Melbourne. Currently using Brown-Gouge mainly for convenience. Called into Bancroft's in Sth. Yarra today and spoke to Dave. Say's they use very little chemical and and a lot of personal care. The hassle is it's about a 45 min. trek for me. I would probably just take my top end suits, sportcoats, because of the time factor. Does anyone have experience with them and is it worth the extra time, cost etc. Also any other recommendation's? Believe there is a place in Richmond called "Top something" and a good one in Malvern. Also notice a place in Punt Rd. called Daisy's which said H2O chemical free Dry Cleaning.

So experiences with any of these please.

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I use Bancrofts. My suits come back with a nice lapel roll and the stains are gone. They also comes back feeling very 'light'...as opposed to my suits from my local dry cleaner which come back feeling heavy and stiff. I use them for all my expensive suits.

American Tailors suggested them as well as a place on Bridge Rd in Richmond. I tried to find it but was unsuccessful, they may have moved. Bancrofts are expensive but seem to do good work. I'd be interested in comparing their prices ($35 a suit) to the Richmond place.

Bancrofts is very inconvenient to get to on the weekend but easier during the week as its only a 14 minute train ride from work to South Yarra station. It also gives me an excuse to have lunch at Pacific House just up the road.



blahman said:

Left breast?

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If want to be pedantic a part of a garment that covers the chest : [as adj. ] a breast pocket.

^^ I was thinking about the position of the flap being on the left side. As men's coats button left over right, the flap should be on the right side.

^ Weird hadn't considered it from that perspective. OMG has some one given me a woman's trench? This bears further investigation.

Just did a quick search and yes its a Mens and the over flap is positioned on the left. The plot thickens! Anyone care to explain this?



Doug11 said:

Maybe suicidal pushbike riders will stay off the roads now.

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Why should we? Read the road laws, it will give you some insight.



California Dreamer said:

Why should we? Read the road laws, it will give you some insight.

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Pay rego and other associated on-road costs and then come back to me.

And I do ride bikes, but you all still piss me off!



jaypee said:

Pay rego and other associated on-road costs and then come back to me.

And I do ride bikes, but you all still piss me off!

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I do pay rego and I am insured. That claim has been dismissed so often it's laughable. Like I said, ALL people need to read the road rules and learn to share the effing road.

I'll shut up now. As I said to someone else, I'm not holding my breath waiting for Australian drivers to grow up and drive safely. So there's no point debating with them.



California Dreamer said:

I do pay rego and I am insured. That claim has been dismissed so often it's laughable. Like I said, ALL people need to read the road rules and learn to share the effing road.

I'll shut up now. As I said to someone else, I'm not holding my breath waiting for Australian drivers to grow up and drive safely. So there's no point debating with them.

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If you're good on the roads, great. unfortunately your (our) fellow riders are morons

You're all morons! I take PT.

Yes this "pay rego and you can use the roads" argument is so bad its, well bad.....
The fact remains cyclist don't have to pay rego and they are legally allowed to use the roads. It's not the riders choice not to pay rego, it's the governments choice not to make us pay rego. Most serious cyclists would happily pay it (me included) if the money went to creating better infrastructure for cyclists and the like. Luckily in Canberra we have good roads, many with bike lanes already built in yet I still heear this same argument time after time. But I have also ridden in Sydney for a couple of years and would agree that it is not a city friendly to cyclists, I don't know who should bear the blame for that though, the gov for not building better infrastructure or the cyclist that insist on riding on roads far too dangerous to safely ride on.

In saying all that, it still never ceases to amaze me how many incompetent riders I see on the roads, running red lights, riding on the road when there is a bike path next to them, not wearing helmets etc etc. If we want respect on the roads we must obey the road rules too.

I would support a special tax for recumbent users and fixie/single speed riding hipsters however....

The fact is most cyclists also own a car and therefore already pay registration.

It's also a fact that the idea of enforcing licensing and registration payment for every kid in Australia who rides a Thomas The Tank Engine tricycle or a BMX bike with training wheels and streamers is completely laughable.

Cyclists are always pleading 'treat us the same'

OK then, go get a license, lose points for not indicating, riding without a helmet, running red lights, not giving way and its a deal.

This coming from a bike rider

We've had this argument a couple of times in this thread but I am a strong believer that something needs to be done to make environments for drivers and cyclists safer.

Any one with a bicycle can jump on their bike and mix with potentially lethal, highly regulated traffic. There are tests that need to be satisfied in order to gain a license to drive on the roads. When cyclists enter the equation, they are putting themselves and others at risk by presumably not knowing road rules. There is no way to determine which riders have a satisfactory knowledge of road rules and which riders don't.

I've seen a cyclist swing out to miss a car door opening then causing the car behind the bike to cross over to the other side of the road, where luckily there wasn't another car. I've seen cyclists run hundreds of red lights, and fail to give way at give way signs with the cyclists assuming there will be enough room for the car with right of way to get past.

I am actually scared to drive on the road with cyclists. It is easy for me to picture a cyclist falling off his bike and rolling under my car. It's not just his life that is wasted, I would have to put up with knowing that I ended someones life for the rest of mine.

Again, your making no sense, bike rider or not. We don't need a licence and this is not the cyclists fault. If your angry about it then lobby your state gov to change the laws, don't deride cyclists for not having something they are legally not entitled to hold (a licence) or pay (rego). Btw, cyclists are still booked for breaking the law, licence or not if they are caught doing the wrong thing. I had a good laugh a few years back after seeing a commuter on the road with no helmet go through a red light while there were no cars around, then get done by the cops and seriously think he had done nothing wrong when they booked him.