Audit And Corrections — read this before acting on any number

Captured 2026-08-12, after the regional sweeps were written. This chapter records
an adversarial re-check of the research by reviewers who did not write it, plus a
mechanical link-health sweep.

Read this before acting on any number in the aggregator research. Several claims
are contradicted by the very sources they cite. Where this chapter and a regional
chapter disagree, this chapter is the later and better-evidenced one.

Status of the three commissioned audits:

288 unique URLs checked with a browser user-agent, following redirects.

• 277 return HTTP 200.
• 8 return 403 — bot-blocking, not dead. Viator, Shimano, FareHarbor help centre,
  Around The Basin, barossa.com, visitmelbourne, AustLII. All confirmed alive when
  re-fetched through a text proxy.
• 1 returns 400 — a Facebook profile URL. Facebook blocks automated fetches;
  correctly cited as [DIRECTORY].
• 2 fail TLS (resolve in DNS, answer on HTTP, broken HTTPS):
  • monasheeadventuretours.com — already correctly documented in
    the Region — Global majors, DACH and Canada chapter as "a live business with
    a dead website… distribution failure, not business failure", sourced from the
    operator's Facebook page instead. Good hygiene; no action.
  • grossetwines.com — cited in the Route Survey chapter
    as https://, which fails with tlsv1 alert internal error. Works on http://.
    Action: trivial link fix.

No dead citations. This is the research's strongest dimension.

The Route Survey — which trails can actually carry this chapter leads with "the finding that
outranks everything else": that South Australia criminalises drink-riding and a
rider can lose their driver's licence, which reframes the van as "the legal
safety valve that protects the customer's licence".

On re-check:

• The A$500 fine is confirmed by the government-backed SA Law Handbook:
  "Cyclists can be charged for riding under the influence of alcohol or drugs and
  face a fine of up to $500 if convicted [Road Traffic Act 1961 (SA) s 47]."
  [VERIFIED]
• The six-demerit-points and licence-suspension claim is NOT in that source. It
  rests on a single law-firm information page (gotocourt.com.au), which does state
  it: "You may incur up to six demerit points from your driver's licence and
  potentially face a license suspension", adding that non-licence-holders accrue
  points that can block a future licence. [SECONDARY, single-sourced]
• The primary legislation was never read. AustLII and legislation.sa.gov.au both
  block automated access.

Action before this goes in any investor or customer-facing material: read
s.47 directly or confirm with SA Police. The product framing depends on it, and
it currently rests on one secondary page.