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[HDTboy]

Michael laws is discussing yesterday's Bikoi this morning 0800723465

[HDTboy]

Michael Laws would like to know statistics on how many motorcyclists get hit by cars

[HDTboy]

And number of cyclists vs motorcyclists injured per annum

[Henryinva]

Mike needs to ride a scoot, then he would know how many accidents are avoided by scoot riders. That would be a more staggering number and something to talk about, every friggin day.:doh:

[Conquiztador]

The figures are publicly available for a "real" reporter on the net.

[HDTboy]

Can't hurt to make his job easier. Either call or email. I've already rung, along with 2 others

[NONONO]

Michael Laws would like to know statistics on how many motorcyclists get hit by cars

Michael Laws would like,,,,,,,a kick in the nuts?

[k2w3]

I prefer to call him Mhichael Lhaws.

[StoneY]

Radio live came at me last night from a VERY hostile pro-national angle

Fuck em
We know the truth.......

[HDTboy]

Why not change their views to match ours? It seems Mr Laws is coming around, no matter what your personal views of him may be.

[Henryinva]

Can't hurt to make his job easier. Either call or email. I've already rung, along with 2 others

well seeing as how yer his boy, put his email addy here...

[StoneY]

The standard wrote us a nice evenly written emotion/dribble free article so I thanked them and shut dow 2 nay sayer commenterswith:
http://www.thestandard.org.nz/acc-misdirection/#comment-172658

Hi all

I am the man who got the BIKEOI organized in Wellington, Police, Parliamentary access, and all our public speakers arranged.

Yesterday, Wellington got to witness democracy in action, and how!

The delegation we took into the Big House to see Minister Smith regarding the levy’s was made up of some of our most contributing and responsible citizens that choose to ride motorcycles
BRONZ, HOG, WIMA and Ulysses organizations (ensuring every walk of the biker lifestyle was represented) as well as industry representatives.

We are always going to have different interpretations of the cause and effect’s of such protests, and I would like to explain the lengths this protest went to

Riders left from deep south and far north as early as Friday to make this event
They came from farms, factories, offices, warehouses, garages, ports, cities, and towns all over New Zealand to peacefully have their say to the minister of ACC

A few journalistic organizations have obviously decided to report the event in the particular light their editorial team have seen this event, some have been negative, many more have taken the positive spin.
The Standard has a very well balanced article here, I thank the editor for simply reporting the news impartially.

I was the lead ‘rabble rouser’ but would like to note, the chant was started by none other than Rick Barker (I was 3 feet from him as it started) and the crowd took over
There were (confirmed); 9000 voices, speaking as one

Our riders pulled off a few National and possibly World First’s yesterday

The longest singular motorcade in NZ history
The largest group of motorcycle riders riding as a single group ever in NZ, possibly the southern hemisphere

On the day we had NOT ONE accident (making Minister Smiths statistics look very suspect indeed) and we had only one ticket issued, and that was to a rider that was ‘hurrying’ to get to his departure point, he was 6kms over the limit.

We came in peace, we rallied in peace (until Nick told us he had heard our plea and still carried on privatizing YOUR public asset)

We did not act only for the Biker fraternity; our battle cry was ‘Who’s Next’
We believe the raised levees on Truckies is also immoral and wrong, we see the cyclists, sexual abuse victims, and all the other targets awaiting in line as being the next to get hit

Please do not think the 9000 strong rally was simply a bunch of ‘noisy bikers’ venting in anger

a LOT of people made a lot of concessions to make this event happen, and we pulled it off safely and in good grace with the Wellington public

There were school busses of kids in safe locations beside our highways, waving at us as we rode into the city
Car drivers stopped, parked and cheered us on
We did this for everyone, not JUST the bikers, although of course that’s the cause closest to our hearts

We came in peace, we left in peace, we had support from all of the community, and we donated THOUSANDS of dollars to the Wellington Free Ambulance courtesy of Westpac Trust staff who ran the collection on Fran Wilde Walkway

Wellington, thanks for allowing us our say, and for watching out for us on the roads yesterday

New Zealand, do not forget
We are the first….who’s next

Brent Hutchison
BIKEOI coordinator, Wellington

[EgliHonda]

Heard that lefty twit Marcus rabbiting on about how motorcyclists SHOULD pay more this am. This coming from a cardigan wearing alcoholic cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet...

Would have called in but had to drive to work, and you can't use the phone in the car now eh...

[k2w3]

Yeah, heard that Lush twat as well. He just likes to get a rise out of people I think. Apparently we're going about our protest in "an immature way". I'd like to know just how more mature it could have been yesterday. What a fuckwit.

[MSTRS]

MSTRS is smelling the roses....

[325rocket]

Yeah, laws really put the boot in. maybe next time if we all wear eyeliner we might get him on our side.
if not we could call it a BikHoi