IMPORTANT - Submission To The Government

[TOTO]

Here is an E-mail I received from Auckland Motorcycle Club. Please read it carefully.

I have attached the Word file with the ready submission to this post. You just need to print it off and send it. No stamp required.

Hey folks, this could cost us all.



The government is looking at trying to make our roads safer and currently have a discussion paper called 'Safer Journeys' on their website. In it there is a section on motorcycles and the proposal by ACC to further tax large displacement motorcycles.



Submissions close on October 2nd.



Go here; http://www.transport.govt.nz/saferjo...s/default.aspx



I'll be compiling a submission asap, I suggest you do the same.



If you can't be arsed let me know and I'll forward you a copy of mine, which you can re-jig with your own details and fire it off.



If you do nothing it will undoubtedly bite you on the bum; specifically, in the wallet.



Forward this email to anyone you know with a bike worth talking about. If they don't have email then ring them, tell them in the pub or go round and see them. Don't do nothing.








Here you go.

If you agree with the content of this submission, just print it up, print your name and address at the top and sign it at the bottom.



Send it to;

The Transport Minister

Parliament Buildings

Wellington



No stamp required.

[Genestho]

Can I just butt in and say that you can fill it in online also, what doesn't concern you - don't fillin, but in the Motorcycling section, you could copy and paste from this word.doc and add any more ideas, there have been some great stuff talked about on here!

http://www.transport.govt.nz/saferjo...s/default.aspx

Thanks for spreading the awareness Toto! (And Auckland Motorcycle Club)

[SixPackBack]

Here is an E-mail I received from Auckland Motorcycle Club. Please read it carefully.

I have attached the Word file with the ready submission to this post. You just need to print it off and send it. No stamp required.

I would interpret the letter as being supportive of cruisers and not sports bikes!

[short-circuit]

I would interpret the letter as being supportive of cruisers and not sports bikes!

That's exactly how I read it too

[Pixie]

I would interpret the letter as being supportive of cruisers and not sports bikes!

And the implication that old, mid-life-crisis types don't have a lot of problems of their own staying on the road

[short-circuit]

In it's current form, you can stick it up your arse

[Genestho]

so edit it? Or don't use it I guess? Online there are particular questions...do you support this, do you support that...(not exact wording but...)what would you do to encourage safer motorcycling?

There is room to say yes or no, expand, then idea. Also the forum at the link provided has some good discussions on this topic.

I copied all the questions into word, so I can then copy and paste the answers back into the online version.
After starting work in the online version and my pc restarted doh! Mondays jobbie...

[James Deuce]

I'm not understanding this one bit.

We're reaping what we sowed and you guys want to argue that we don't deserve it?

That ice is so thin, it's transparent.

[short-circuit]

I'm not understanding this one bit.

We're reaping what we sowed and you guys want to argue that we don't deserve it?

That ice is so thin, it's transparent.

Hey! Careful with the inclusive language there sex partner

[Nasty]

Pages 28-30 seems to focus on motorcycles ... its a good place to read in the link that is in the first post.

[Maki]

ACC levies should be a levy for riders, not bikes. It should not matter how many bikes you own, you should only pay one levy. You can not ride more than one bike at a time. Safe experienced riders who have ridden for years without mishap should be rewarded with lower levies. High risk riders should be penalized. Fair is fair. Why should people who use their bike a primary mode of transport be penalized for the antics of weekend warriors?

[The Pastor]

ACC levies should be a levy for riders, not bikes. It should not matter how many bikes you own, you should only pay one levy. You can not ride more than one bike at a time. Safe experienced riders who have ridden for years without mishap should be rewarded with lower levies. High risk riders should be penalized. Fair is fair. Why should people who use their bike a primary mode of transport be penalized for the antics of weekend warriors?

stuff that

[The Pastor]

say no to the over 600cc levey increase >_<

[short-circuit]

say no to the over 600cc levey increase >_<

.........

No

[James Deuce]

ACC levies should be a levy for riders, not bikes. It should not matter how many bikes you own, you should only pay one levy. You can not ride more than one bike at a time. Safe experienced riders who have ridden for years without mishap should be rewarded with lower levies. High risk riders should be penalized. Fair is fair. Why should people who use their bike a primary mode of transport be penalized for the antics of weekend warriors?

It's not about fair, and I can guarantee that you wouldn't like the increased ACC levies the bureacracy around your idea would bring.

Fair? Don't make me laugh. Motorcyclists are a minority and do not even comprise a credible, threatening voting bloc, because they can't even stop giving each other shit for the type of bike they ride, let alone mount a campaign to prevent a change in Government policy.

A ride on Parliament doesn't let "them" know anything, show 'them" anything, inform "them" of anything.

Protest is a thing of the past. Governments need sound economic reasons to not ban motorcycles, and they need to be informed by professional lobby groups who can demonstrate the sound political and economic benefits of doing so.

Public submissions are a waste of time and change nothing.

Political power is horse trading. If keeping motorcycles legal in NZ came down to banning adventure riding to gain Green support against the bill banning motorcycling would the Adventure riders give publicly voiced support to the idea?

I think not. We're not a political movement, we have no clear long term goals or motivation to meet them and our Modus Operandi seems to consist of impotent whining in forums that have no bearing on outcomes. Like Public Submissions.