Scrape your footpegs more to recoup your loss
A $70 subsidy and a $500 increase - there's quite a difference, no?
Especially considering the $32 increase for cars - even if we add in those $70 that they subsidise motorcycles it's still at long way.
Hell, why not reduce the levy for bigger bikes - make turboed bikes above 1000 ccm even cheaper. After all dead people are the cheapest patients to handle.
It's great to see that there's being put so much thought into this.
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Count me in.
And, the Nats aren't doing too well on the environmental front, last I looked, so don't count on that being a motivator.
At $750 plus the rest I will have to sell my bike, unless this recession takes a very sharp turn upwards (and I'm not banking on that).
Redefining slow since 2006...
Well, off to get an RS125 and kit it out with a turbo I suppose.
I'm going to check whether my insurance will cover if my rego isn't current, but the WOF is up to date.
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
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Me thinks this may be the way also.
Now I've cooled down a bit...nope still fucken a-fucken-noyed, all us big bike riders should lobby the government! I can handle doubling the levy, say $500 but this is nuts. Not when we've got 2 600cc + in the family. And here's me thinking I'd get a Stripple as well!!!
The "old-boys" club is gonna spew.
When does it take effect - or has it already?
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What's the ACC portion of the rego to be a horse rider each year? Or a rugby player? Skier? Cyclist? Diver? Caver?
you gotta remember though too, that current $250 odd they are quoting is just the acc levy part of your licensing fee...
A bike over 61cc is currently $300 odd per year to register, so if you've got a 1000cc bike, you're not just going up to $750 per year, your gonna be looking at an extra $100 or so ontop of that for the other costs included in your licensing fee!!!!
So be budgeting a cool $850-900 a year to license your bikes!! How is the average NZ'der supposed to afford that!
And yes of course accidents involving bikes cost ACC more. Duh, bikes don't have a metal box to protect the rider... hence worse injuries. Which from my experience with friends is usually the person in the metal box on wheels' fault for not blimmin looking!!!
I thought the stats were that pedistrians and cyclists actually use the most ACC per year than any other road user.....
Far out man thats $1500 per year for my old classic I ride every now and then and a road bike! $28-00 bucks a week! That's just bloody ridiculous!!!
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