MAG-NZ Launches in New Zealand

[Mom]

I'll definitely be there if there will be lunch

With any luck there will be food sellers there Coffee guy, you know the drill.

[MadDuck]

I'll definitely be there if there will be lunch

We thought you might like to organise that ....

[Okey Dokey]

Encouraging advanced rider training sounds a good platform to push. Like others here, I've paid out and done specific mc training both on road and on track with licenced instructors.

Insurance companies don't reduce your premiums in recognition of what you have completed. In fact they discourage you- my excess was doubled when I did track based training.

ACC doesn't take your training or safety record into account when setting your levy. Only the cc of your machine.

It would be great to see progress in these areas.

[Maha]

We have a number of individual ART's in mind they we would like to support by way linking thier website to the MAG website. Its an issue we feel can be pushed but also realise that, its a personal choice for each individual biker.

[Okey Dokey]

Well, that is good. Having linkys on your site is doing something. And obviously the trainers stand to benefit the most if more people are encouraged to undertake ART. So maybe they can lead the way a bit on this particular issue.

I appreciate your answering my thoughts so quickly; it bodes well for MAG NZ that you can listen and respond, I think. Cheers.

[Maha]

Well, that is good. Having linkys on your site is doing something. And obviously the trainers stand to benefit the most if more people are encouraged to undertake ART. So maybe they can lead the way a bit on this particular issue.

I appreciate your answering my thoughts so quickly; it bodes well for MAG NZ that you can listen and respond, I think. Cheers.

My pleasure, I hope you will get in and support MAG-NZ (Christchurch)

[PhantasmNZ]

Encouraging advanced rider training sounds a good platform to push. Like others here, I've paid out and done specific mc training both on road and on track with licenced instructors.

Insurance companies don't reduce your premiums in recognition of what you have completed. In fact they discourage you- my excess was doubled when I did track based training.

ACC doesn't take your training or safety record into account when setting your levy. Only the cc of your machine.

It would be great to see progress in these areas.

Quite interested to hear your story about how the insurance company doubled your excess, we have an story on our site detailing another member's experience with insurance companies following a claim for protective equipment.

What was the response of the insurance company when you explained that you were performing advanced training to improve your safety. Did they increase your excess overall, or just whilst you were preforming the training?

[HappyGOriding]

on the thoughts of advanced rider training I think it should be made complusory as part of gaining your full license

Also big ups to all those invovled in getting MAG NZ up and running another voice out there is great.
Me thinks first up stop all these roading companies from taking out all the bloody corners

[PhantasmNZ]

on the thoughts of advanced rider training I think it should be made complusory as part of gaining your full licenses

My thoughts would be that training that the rider "wants" to do will always be more effective than the training s/he is "forced" to do - there is a drive to succeed and improve vs. a barrier that just needs to be overcome..... in this sense the personal choice of the rider becomes a major benefit not disadvantage

[Bodir]

Me thinks first up stop all these roading companies from taking out all the bloody corners

I hope you were trying to say we should encourage the roading companies to taking out all those roads, right

Perfect solution to getting the road toll down to zero

[Mom]

My thoughts would be that training that the rider "wants" to do will always be more effective than the training s/he is "forced" to do - there is a drive to succeed and improve vs. a barrier that just needs to be overcome..... in this sense the personal choice of the rider becomes a major benefit not disadvantage

Thank goodness you are part of MAG-NZ.

[Mom]

I hope you were trying to say we should encourage the roading companies to taking out all those roads, right

Perfect solution to getting the road toll down to zero

Just because you have the dual purpose machine, we dont all ride off road you know

[The Stranger:Me]

How about getting a shit load of flyers out to motorcycle businesses?

Oh to be so young and naive. Will that help them sell bikes or affect their bottom line in the short term?
Been done, many times by both BRONZ and ACC. The boxes of flyers are of course useful, they reduce our ACC as the boxes of flyers stop the doors slamming on people - but hey maybe the motorcycle businesses have wised up over the last few years and realised that repeat business is easier than new business.
For some reason I remain sceptical.
Anyway go the mark and anne show! Perhaps your time is right. Then again, they say that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Either way, I'm sure fracturing a minority has it's benefits.

[bogan]

by popular request, avatar is now different!

[Bodir]

Sweet, got one too

[PhantasmNZ]

Me too funny that...

[jafar]

on the thoughts of advanced rider training I think it should be made complusory as part of gaining your full license

Far better to encourage new & returning riders to do the course because they want to than let the likes of nicky smith come up with another way to tax us out of existance.

[yungatart]

Far better to encourage new & returning riders to do the course because they want to than let the likes of nicky smith come up with another way to tax us out of existance.

Yep! Personal responsibility in a nutshell!

I have yet to get to changing my avatar

[Katman]

Oh to be so young and handsome.

Well I would certainly be stapling a copy of one to each job sheet I hand the customer.

What they do with it is their business.

And in fact, I don't need a shit load of them. I only need one that I can print off copies of.

[PrincessBandit]

Either way, I'm sure fracturing a minority has it's benefits.

Surely people can support both? Membership to both MAG and BRONZ is hardly budget blowing so there must be some way of working cooperatively rather than being seen automatically as "competitively"?