This concerns everyone

[MSTRS]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=1482&day=2007-12-4&
WOW!!! 18 sign-ups!! This event is sure to be a resounding success.
Can anyone hear the sarcasm dripping off my keyboard??

[James Deuce]

We had a similar sign up rate for the Wellington one mate - seriously, "she'll be right."

[jrandom]

If the ride was on a weekend, I'd be there. Riding on a working Tuesday makes it pretty difficult for us mere mortals living a few hundred kilometres away to attend.

:confused:

[Swoop]

Already noted.
I wonder why gubbinment organises "meetings" when they do...

[MSTRS]

If the ride was on a weekend, I'd be there. Riding on a working Tuesday makes it pretty difficult for us mere mortals living a few hundred kilometres away to attend.

:confused:

Your point ??? Midweek trackday anyone??

[MSTRS]

We had a similar sign up rate for the Wellington one mate - seriously, "she'll be right."

Oh the fingers are crossed, no doubt. No-one wants a damp squib.

[jrandom]

Your point ??? Midweek trackday anyone??

Well, um, I don't attend midweek trackdays, either.

Oh, of course, you're going to ride to the gubmint function, sorry, I forgot about that. Good point, the relevant exposure will be worth the hassle of doing the ride on a Tuesday.

Best of luck!

:cool:

[MSTRS]

...I forgot about that...

It seems that there may be 'quite a few' in this position. I'm not trying to upset anyone here...but if getting sarky prompts some more to attend out of embarassment...well....
The cause is sound, my friends.

[Holy Roller]

We all get an extra weeks leave thanks to the gubmint, more riding time without taking from the family or other activities.

[Matt_TG]

We all get an extra weeks leave thanks to the gubmint, more riding time without taking from the family or other activities.

I didn't get anything extra. I worked hard to earn 4 weeks leave per year then they give everyone an extra week, but those already on 4 didn't get 5 ...

I would love to attend but can't take the time off :no:

[janno]

I leave for Aus tomorrow, otherwise I would have made the trek over. Bugger, it'll be not good if there are less than stellar numbers to make a point.

[Holy Roller]

I didn't get anything extra. I worked hard to earn 4 weeks leave per year then they give everyone an extra week, but those already on 4 didn't get 5 ...

I would love to attend but can't take the time off :no:

Depends how ones contract was worded, ours stated that we get an extra weeks leave for shift allowance making it four weeks. As the statement of an extra weeks leave entitled us to get the 5th weeks leave added. Those contracts that were written stating four weeks leave entitlement dip out.:angry2:
Not fair as it should be across the board same for everyone, but thats law for ya.

[maxworldbiker]

Shit, I've just looked at this and found out it was today. I really hope it went well, and I'm sorry I couldn't be there. I think that what you are trying to do is absolutely great. Also, I know very well how frustrating it is when people stand around telling you what a great thing it is you're trying to do, but give you all manner of reasons (however valid) or excuses (however pathetic) for making their active choice NOT to be part of it with you. It says more about them than it does about you, so I hope you won't let it wind you up. Lets all just hope like f**k than nobody who had a chance to go on this thing and found a reason not to ends up lying in the road somewhere with a limb sliced off, wishing things were different. I'd have been there, if I'd had my shit together.

[jrandom]

Lets all just hope like f**k than nobody who had a chance to go on this thing and found a reason not to ends up lying in the road somewhere with a limb sliced off, wishing things were different.

Almost all of us who are having to 'make our excuses' have already attended either the Auckland or the Wellington protest ride.


I'd have been there, if I'd had my shit together.

Oh, look. The worst excuse yet...

[Matt_TG]

Hope things went well today. Like jrandom said, many attended the other rides (Auckland for me).

I am presently sitting in my bloody hot office doing too much paperwork. I know where I'd rather be....

[maxworldbiker]

To those who participated today, geographics irrelevant, good on you. Like I think I said (???) I feel bloody stupid and frustrated for not noticing this in enough time to go up there. Wasn't having a go at anyone, so no real need for a defensive displaced boot to the head from anyone who for whatever reason feels motivated to defend themselves. Why not make it less about yourself and the brownie point you feel justified to apply for here, and acknowledge instead that we ALL need to get off our arses and throw our weight behind issues that stand to affect us all. Disorganised me included.

[adamh]

Todays ride was good but we coulda had alot more people.... We had an alright turnout (more than 18 btw :P). But all went well and it was very well organised.

[maxworldbiker]

That's brilliant to hear, that it went well! Is there anything being organised in the south island about this issue, and if so, does anyone have time to give me the heads up on it? A lot of my time is being gobbled up with organising something else of potential benefit for kiwis at large, and I don't have as much time as I wish I had, to wade through the event stuff in here to find out. Maybe protest events of this and similar kinds could be colour coded or flagged differently somehow, here on the forum, to make them more readily distinct from the fun and charity events, which could also maybe be coded separately to help browsers work out what they want to take part in? There's so much on here, and its fantastic that there is, but it's all a bit overwhelming for those who maybe don't have a lot of time to surf thru. Just a thought...

[HTFU]

Oh I do concur young fella...all went well but still feel annoyed at their rep.
Wanted a wee chat with him tbh :whistle:

Did you what. :angry2: Don't know if you realised but you had clinched fists etc for a bit there. I thought you were about to go him.

He did come across as a bit of a cock-sucker who oozed arrogance and very little compassion. I'm sure he had a dollar sign tattooed on his forehead.

[DMNTD]

Did you what. :angry2: Don't know if you realised but you had clinched fists etc for a bit there. I thought you were about to go him.

He did come across as a bit of a cock-sucker who oozed arrogance and very little compassion. I'm sure he had a dollar sign tattooed on his forehead.

LOL...nah I didn't realise mate!! :lol:
I have serious issues with feeling "fobbed off".
IMHO nothing was really said...I felt like there was a politician spouting BS to try make us feel better

[HTFU]

LOL...nah I didn't realise mate!! :lol:
I have serious issues with feeling "fobbed off".
IMHO nothing was really said...I felt like there was a politician spouting BS to try make us feel better

Agree one hundy. I didn't really listen to him. He made it easy to feel pissed off, didn't help that I was watching to see if you were about to launch an attack. I was relieved and gutted at the same time when you folded your arms from the clenched fists, wonder if they got that on film :eek:

[Holy Roller]

Stopped off at the Rotovegas bike shops on the way home to drop off the Whakatane Ulysses Charity Ride Flyer only to discover that no one had dropped off petition forms to any of them:nono:

c'mon the Bay lets get behind this:first:

They now have the forms so for those who like to write to the papers one can advise that the bike shops have the forms to sign at the end of your speel.:Punk:

[yungatart]

That's brilliant to hear, that it went well! Is there anything being organised in the south island about this issue, and if so, does anyone have time to give me the heads up on it? A lot of my time is being gobbled up with organising something else of potential benefit for kiwis at large, and I don't have as much time as I wish I had, to wade through the event stuff in here to find out. Maybe protest events of this and similar kinds could be colour coded or flagged differently somehow, here on the forum, to make them more readily distinct from the fun and charity events, which could also maybe be coded separately to help browsers work out what they want to take part in? There's so much on here, and its fantastic that there is, but it's all a bit overwhelming for those who maybe don't have a lot of time to surf thru. Just a thought...

All these threads are located in the Cheesecutter forum, to make it easy to access them.
As for anything being organised in the South Island, nothing that I know of.
It is up to a South Islander to organise something.
Those who organised the Taupo ride are all busy people. We have jobs or are self employed (read 80+ hrs p/w), a lot of us have families, and loads of other committments....it is called prioiritising for important things.

[ElCoyote]

(He did come across as a bit of a cock-sucker who oozed arrogance and very little compassion).

That's why he has the job.......................so he fits in

[Taz]

Doesn't concern me.....

[MSTRS]

Doesn't concern me.....

Fair enough. But if you go through one and lose a leg, don't come running to us complaining.