2007 Cheesecutter ride pictures (Wellington)

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A bit damp...
Starting off in Mana

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More from Mana

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And in Wellington

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It is only from my phone, but here are the speeches from the steps of power.
(the poor quality hides a multitude of sins ;-))

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[Trudes]

Nice one Xp!!
We have a few pics too we will add shortly to go with yours.

[Colapop]

Another huge thanks to everyone for turning up today! Here's a couple from my point of view...

And thanks Fletcher Construction for supporting our cause...

[Skunk]

Awesome job by everyone who has had a part in organising these rides. Especially for the 'behind the scenes' work with the media and officialdom etc. Respect.

[Mom]

Fantastic effort guys!

[Kendog]

An excellent event, well done to the organisers and all that attended.

[Ms Piggy]

Great to see everyone there. Well done Col and all those involved in the organisation.

[Number One]

Interesting experience to be holding up traffic on the motorway - not one I'm used to and crikey people come up close behind before they get out of your lane! Hazard lights a requirement!

Anyone been passed by that many cars before?

Sorry for the initial close calls Nasty, 3 year old with large basketball in front seat and that was my first political rally and all.

Bringing up the rear of slow moving processions is something I've not practised.

Great turn out and looked to be good safe riding by all. Looked an impressive display on the motorway (even from the rear :msn-wink: ) I'm sure it got peoples attention anyway...some very lovely machines to perve at travelling at a good speed for perving too...

Will spred the word amongst my biker colleagues. There seem to be quite a few of them and yet I didn't recognise any of them there today. How do we arrange/co-ordinate petition forms again?

Anyway - thanks for the arranging the ride/drive and for letting a sympathetic 'cage driving currently retired biker' tag along.

Keep the message alive - NO New Zealander on the road is safe with these barriers installed in their current state - especially not bikers.

[Dodger]

Col just had to get a hug in :)

I have a few photos as well that I'll post.
But something went screwy with the camera so the photos take of our arrival at Parliament are missing :confused:

[James Deuce]

Pictures of me RIDING a bike! Woohoo! Thanks CSL! I want originals! :)

[325rocket]

well done Col.

[Ms Piggy]

I've got more photos but am having problems uploading them...will try later, or alternatively I've uploaded them all at http://flickr.com/photos/28616080@N00/sets/72157603073436973/ hopefully you can view them there.

[325rocket]

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[Paul in NZ]

I was impressed - well done everyone, speaches were great, disicpline was good - well impressed! WELL DONE!

Hell - I even had a nice lunch at the backbencher afterwards and a happy fang over the hill...

[Dodger]

4 Photos from Petone

[Ms Piggy]

...not a good idea to do this sorta thing when you're hungover and a tad tired.

Anyhoo...arrggghhhh!! It's not working. I've deleted the photos from the other thread but it won't let me upload them here now. :eek5: Help! It keeps saying "Upload Errors
Protest Nov 2007 003.jpg:
You have already attached this file in thread : Wellington - Wire Rope Barrier "Cheesecutter" ride."

[banditrider]

Some of my pics here (http://picasaweb.google.com/andrew.l.thomson/CheesecutterProtestRide). Nice to see so many there, shame about the weather but it came right in the end.

[James Deuce]

...not a good idea to do this sorta thing when you're hungover and a tad tired.

Anyhoo...arrggghhhh!! It's not working. I've deleted the photos from the other thread but it won't let me upload them here now. :eek5: Help! It keeps saying "Upload Errors
Protest Nov 2007 003.jpg:
You have already attached this file in thread : Wellington - Wire Rope Barrier "Cheesecutter" ride."

If you click on your name next to your Avatar in a post it brings up a list. At the bottom it shows your attachments. You can then put links to the attachments in a post, reattach them or use the <img src=(insert URL with no brackets)> to display them in the post.

[Ms Piggy]

If you click on your name next to your Avatar in a post it brings up a list. At the bottom it shows your attachments. You can then put links to the attachments in a post, reattach them or use the <img src=(insert URL with no brackets)> to display them in the post.

Hmmmm, the photos I deleted don't show up there. Maybe I need to give it a day or something...oh well, all should be able to view them on Flickr.

[cowboy]

looks like you had a good turnout down there:banana::banana:
Great work yall:2thumbsup:2thumbsup:2thumbsup

[jafar]

Nice work guys :niceone:

[johnnyflash]

Congrats guys, looks like a very succesful ride..well done

[janno]

Just got back to New Plymouth after a great weekend in Wellington. Note to self - don't believe the forecast, it always rains in Welly . . .

It was fantastic of Grub and Nasty to open their home to the travellers last night, and again for lunch today, though I left for home straight after parliament.

Quite a few riders made the effort to travel for the event. I met people from Hawkes Bay and Whakatane, as well as a fellow reprobate from New Plymouth and a lovely lassie from Wanganui.

Nasty did a great job of controlling kickoff from Mana, and the lane blocking people were really efficient at getting us all out of the carpark quickly and safely. Thanks chaps!

Riding down the motorway was awesome, with bikes in front and behind as far as I could see.

I've been in a couple of big rides, including 8,000 bikes at the Perth Christmas parade (which was a lunatic asylum on the move), and the ride today has to be the best behaved and most tidily ridden ever! I felt really proud to be part of it, and it was also really noticeable that the cars having to merge in and out of our stream of bikes due to on-ramps etc were really courteous to us and to each other. I witnessed on several occasions cars in the right lane slowing down to let through cars that had merged on to the m'way and got stuck in our lane.

The fantastic speeches from Col and Yungatart were exactly right for the occasion, and MP Marion Hobbs also seemed very supportive of our cause.

I was sad to see mainly sportsbikes there, with only a handful of Harleys. Perhaps when they fall on to cheesecutters, their shiney new HD branded gear gives them immunity from slicings and mutilations. Anyway, whether riders turned up this morning or not, I'm hoping everyone made the effort to sign the petition.

Big hugs back at ya Col, you and your team did an exemplary job and you can all feel really proud. Because I'm too old and knackered to drink these days, I'm raising my mug of caffiene free tea in salute. Cheers, guys and girls!

[DMNTD]

Top job Col and Crew! :niceone:

[chanceyy]

Awesome Job guys

first off thanks to Nasty & Grub for having a group of us staying last nite the BBQ dinner was great to see familiar faces & met some of the other kbers I have never met previously & awesome this morning at Mana to met a whole heap of Kbers that I have never met before but seen some of their postings ... knew getting ppl to sign the petition was a good way to met them :devil2:

A special thanks to Nasty for letting me ride her new bike .. thanks chick it was awesome to try out the sports tourer .. that girl deserves bling !!! :yes: :hug:

The ride on the motorway blardy awesome sight from the rear to see a one continous line of bikes & great to ride outta the rain & stay that way for the rest of the ride :banana:

good to see one off the Rat riders from palmy arrive & tag on the back as we left .. just made it in time mate :cool:

Big thanks to Col & crew who worked behind the scenes, & Janet awesome job with your speech .. :niceone:

[KoroJ]

A few from The Hutt

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And a few on the move

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And some formalities

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And finally

[captain_andrey]

Some more here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71396325@N00/sets/72157603075882845/

[unrealone]

Some more here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71396325@N00/sets/72157603075882845/

Cheers for the photos! And thanks all for a great day.

[Hitcher]

A top effort! Time to start planning now for Stage 2...

[Colapop]

Yep. The rides thus far have only been a start. There's more yet to do.

[Swoop]

A big "WELL DONE!" to all the organisers and everyone who turned out!!!
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Fabulous stuff!

[Zukin]

Hi thee

What a great turnout by a group of fantastic people :2thumbsup

Here is a small video clip of the final section to parliament, sorry about the quality (and I haven't done an edit) but it gives those the idea that weren't there what they missed out on

A big up to Col for the way he spoke
And what can I say about YT (Janet) and her speech...fantastic

Cheers Scott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CxAUkF4cjw

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Heres a couple of Videos from Yesterdays Wellington Cheese cutter protest,
http://www.veoh.com/series/cheesecutter
ones a short one of when We had just arrived in Welly & the other (long) one is ALL the Bikes outside Parliament, unfortunately the image stabilizer was off so its a little bit shakey but watchable, I shot it on My Nokia N93

The pics are from outside TSS getting ready to leave & then a few from Welly
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brainfade/sets/72157603094723675/

Cheers Brainfade

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Some more here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71396325@N00/sets/72157603075882845/

Cool photos, captain_andrey, I look fat though!

[Sanx]

Hi guys and gals,

Can I have a couple of paragraph precis of the Wellington ride to stick up on the cheesecutter website. Any budding journos, here's your chance. Make it read like a newspaper article if you can.

PM me with the text, and I'll get it uploaded, along with some video clips, pictures, etc.

Thanks,

Dan.

[captain_andrey]

Cool photos, captain_andrey, I look fat though!

You should have been going faster. As you approach the speed of light you would shrink in the direction of travel :rolleyes:

[MSTRS]

I've stuck the video I took on YouTube. Seems real slow to load and I don't know how to post it here....but I called it 'anti-cheesecutter rally'
Since removed the video cos someone else put one up that does work