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    EVERYDAY HEROES

    Jan 11, 2017 6 minutes
    WORDS & PHOTOS BEN HEWLETT
    “THIS IS WHEN SEVERAL OF US FOUND OUT EXACTLY HOW MUCH OIL WE DIDN’T HAVE LEFT IN THE STRUTS”

    I ENJOY writing. There is nobody to argue with and blame can be shifted wherever I like. In that spirit, this trip was all Kade's and Beau’s fault.

    We are a group of blokes from an underground workshop at CSA Copper Mine in Cobar, NSW. We have a social club that we pay a few bucks into every fortnight, and our employer also makes a contribution.

    Kade and Beau came up with a half-cocked idea to buy everyone a postie bike. Momentum gained and in October 2015 everyone agreed to throw in a couple of hundred dollars and Kade and Beau would go to the Aussie Post auctions in Sydney. Low-km examples were getting around two grand each, so they chased bikes with 15-30,000km at an average of $1100. They bought a dozen, which were allocated by

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