Wellington Bike Ladies!

[maxworldbiker]

...Or even those from a little further away...

If you're interested in helping support the Herceptin Riders on the final day of our protest, take an extended lunch break, jump on your bikes and come on down to Parliament at midday on Wednesday 12th March 2008. We'll be there for a couple of hours, and some MPs are coming out to speak to us and we'll be handing over as many of our completed petition forms as we can get filled out (you can help with that too, if you like! The forms can be downloaded from the website).

Lets make the numbers count:banana:.

It would be just so great to see as many of you down there as can possibly make it. Don't forget to dress up your bike for the occasion - think pink! - and bring a piece of absorbent something-or-other (nothing too risque, of course, she warned, suddenly having scary visions of the flagstones littered with black-spotted sanitary surfboards...:eek:) to slap underneath it when you park up.

Just so we don't have nastly little oil leaks all over those lovely parliamentary paving slabs...

[Number One]

jump on your bikes and come on down to Parliament at midday on Wednesday 12th March 2006.

Think we missed the boat....:innocent:

[Str8 Jacket]

As a cancer survivor myself (not breast though...) I would love to be there in support but cant as 1. im working at the other end of town and 2. I dont have a bike at the moment. Though I reckon we should be encouraging both men and women to come along though. More people means louder voice and all that...

[maxworldbiker]

Aha, Number One! Well spotted YOU!!! I've been in and corrected it. Worra wolly!!! Shows ya where my head is. Its gonna be even further off my shoulders soon, at the rate this whole thing is happening. :bleh:

And I totally agree about the guy presence thing. What I've been hoping for!

Bring it on!!!

[Mom]

...Or even those from a little further away...

The forms can be downloaded from the website).




Hi, I live a long way away from your protest, wish I could join you. Breast cancer is a subject very close to my heart. What is the web address? I have never seen a petition form.

[maxworldbiker]

Hi, I live a long way away from your protest, wish I could join you. Breast cancer is a subject very close to my heart. What is the web address? I have never seen a petition form.

Site is www.herceptinriders.co.nz and the petitions are on the downloads page.

[Nasty]

Gals and guys it would be great to see as many as possible there for the end of this huge ride ... I am going to be there as am sponsored by Bike Rider magazine (YAY) ... and would love to be joined by the motley crue you are!!!!

[maxworldbiker]

Parliament have now given official written permission for us to park within the grounds (God, the protocols!!!), including permission for people to eat their lunch on the hallowed turf. They will shoot ya if ya leave litter lying around. Whoops! Sorry, I mean they will bill ME for the clean up so its ME that will shoot ya, and the council are reserving parking in Molesworth Street.
Damore damerrier...

[Fatjim]

If any of you biker ladies are a little woried about breast cancer I'll be more than happy to help put your mind at ease.

[James Deuce]

At least you guys get screening. Way more blokes die of prostate cancer than women die of breast cancer.

[maxworldbiker]

At least you guys get screening. Way more blokes die of prostate cancer than women die of breast cancer.

Yes, in that respect we're very lucky, and I fully take your point. Its important to stand up for Herceptin though, and be counted as caring about that too, even if your own beef is prostate cancer, because the whole matter of NZ's third-world stance on access to cancer drugs (second-worst country in the so-called civilized world only to Poland!) if we get a victory on Herceptin it's the first step to getting all cancer drugs funded. My mum died two years ago from a variety of cancers. It was horrible, unfair, and the situation in this country has just bloody well GOT to change.:soon:

I've said it before, though, you have to eat an elephant one bite at a time. It will be a lot harder for these misguided, budgetary-challenged fools to deny funding for other cancer drugs if they've already said yes to one, and as Herceptin has been a really hot political potato for a while now, and is currently being wrestled with in court. keeping the momentum on it as the focus makes more sense than switching that focus to something else that doesn't already have a high "nuisance" profile for the government to keep having to deal with in the public arena. Aside from being very close to my heart for a number of reasons (not all of which I wish to share), making Herceptin the focus of this protest has got to make it more pressurizing for the government to pull funding from other less emotive or "necessary" budgets and plough it into health - specifically Herceptin, and other cancer drugs.

I'm trying to do more here than just get Herceptin funded. But I have to be very careful how I go about it. Political challenge and interference has to be handled very delicately, there are a nightmare number of protocols attached to it, and I'm learning as I go. I'm nobody special, just someone who wants to make a change to the current senseless cancer funding structure, but its a really big challenge, so all support will be welcomed, whichever way it comes.

[Number One]

If any of you biker ladies are a little woried about breast cancer I'll be more than happy to help put your mind at ease.

Errrm....If your hands are anything like those in your avatar :crazy: shudder



At least you guys get screening. Way more blokes die of prostate cancer than women die of breast cancer.

If any of you biker men are a little woried about prostrate cancer I'll be more than happy to help put your mind at ease FOR FREE. Now take off yer pants bend over and cough :yes:

OH and to be ON TOPIC - I will bring my scoot along :-) I'll just go from one end of parliament grounds to the other ;-)

[bert_is_evil]

Where will we be assembling? or will it be too obvious to miss

[Nasty]

At Parliament itself .... outside the gates next to the bus stop a number of carparks will be reserved for the use of the ride supporters.

[maxworldbiker]

[Errrm....If your hands are anything like those in your avatar shudder]

Oh, right! FATJIM's hands!!! THAT's what you meant??? I was gonna say, settle down folks, its only an AK47!!!

[Paul in NZ]

Gals and guys it would be great to see as many as possible there for the end of this huge ride ... I am going to be there as am sponsored by Bike Rider magazine (YAY) ... and would love to be joined by the motley crue you are!!!!


Um - original poster only invited gals Nasty.... Us guys might organise a check your prostrate gland ride later if Fatjim is still volunteering?

[Trudes]

Um - original poster only invited gals Nasty.... Us guys might organise a check your prostrate gland ride later if Fatjim is still volunteering?

Well he'd have the S-bend covered that's for sure!

[Nasty]

Um - original poster only invited gals Nasty.... Us guys might organise a check your prostrate gland ride later if Fatjim is still volunteering?

hmmm ... I invite everyone .. cos the breast cancer and prostate cancer issues touch all of us .. through friends ..family etc .... as Max says ... eat elephant needs small bites ...

[maxworldbiker]

Um - original poster only invited gals Nasty....

Yikes! Big politically incorrect foe-par! Toldya I had a lot to learn... Sorry Team Wellington, I meant Y'ALL!
We still wanna see y'all in pink tho. "Show us ya pink bits", she cried. "but keep it seemly". I aint bailin nobahdy out fo' indaicent exposhawre.

[ynot slow]

If I/we can be there I/we will be,just ta wind the poly's up.We could be in Wellyville after trip south,might try and stay around the area.

Can you get some forms sent to the NP Cancer Soc,we have relay for life this weekend,heaps of people there to sign petition.

Hope to have wife,daughter to join me in walk for survivors,my ma in law can't do the walk due to dodgy knees,and mum went on Wanganui one last week.Not bad for one family,thought it was 1 in 3.More like 5 out of 8 for us,lol.

[maxworldbiker]

If I/we can be there I/we will be,just ta wind the poly's up.We could be in Wellyville after trip south,might try and stay around the area.

Can you get some forms sent to the NP Cancer Soc,we have relay for life this weekend,heaps of people there to sign petition.

Hope to have wife,daughter to join me in walk for survivors,my ma in law can't do the walk due to dodgy knees,and mum went on Wanganui one last week.Not bad for one family,thought it was 1 in 3.More like 5 out of 8 for us,lol.

One in three is not to be sneezed at, young man! Its a better statistic than some families can manage, especially the ones where cancer has made off with some of 'em already. Our Nellie RFL is this weekend too, and I can't be here so I'm taking loads of food down to the troops before I leave town, and leaving my memorial bags with our team to put candles in for me.

As for NPCS, they're hosting the Herceptin Riders for a welcome/media party next week, so they already know about the petition, but I will remind Kelly in case its all got lost among the typical organisational melee that surrounds events of this kind.

Cheers.

[Nasty]

If I/we can be there I/we will be,just ta wind the poly's up.We could be in Wellyville after trip south,might try and stay around the area.

Can you get some forms sent to the NP Cancer Soc,we have relay for life this weekend,heaps of people there to sign petition.

Hope to have wife,daughter to join me in walk for survivors,my ma in law can't do the walk due to dodgy knees,and mum went on Wanganui one last week.Not bad for one family,thought it was 1 in 3.More like 5 out of 8 for us,lol.

forms are http://www.herceptinriders.co.nz/pdf/pdf_pdf_0004.pdf

:)

[ynot slow]

One in three is not to be sneezed at, young man! Its a better statistic than some families can manage, especially the ones where cancer has made off with some of 'em already.
Cheers.

Thanks for pm,should have known you'd have that organised,but easy to miss with all the promo your doing.

As you say lets get this part in front of the govt agencies,then us fellas can sort something out for prostate and for both sexes colon,lung.Shit I know of a couple of people having treatment in Melbourne,how crappy is that,our system is soo flawed.

ROCK ON LADIES,hope to catch up with you,either if you make NP relay,or Wellie.

[maxworldbiker]

For what its worth, I can provide a lot in the way of resources and information I've already pulled together to anyone who wants to take on something like this, and I'll come on board to help them if I can. :2thumbsup Organising the HR is a lot of fun, and its helped along by a strong personal conviction (essential!) and an enormous amount of nationwide goodwill. But its also taking a lot of stamina, as there's a lot of frustration to cope with behind the scenes with negotiating, organising, co-ordinating etc, in trying to make it all come together the way it really needs to. People outside of the frame often don't see or appreciate that, which can make it all the harder when you need some co-operation or answers from them. :calm:

But its do-able, obviously, so don't think it aint! If you want to fight for something, just get on with it, stay focussed, and don't suffer fools. You'll be surprised by how much help you'll get, and the level of goodwill will more than make up for the odd shyte-slinging tosser :moon:who tries to tell you you're wasting your time or "doing it wrooooong".