ACC Levies. BRONZ meeting

[Ixion]

Next BRONZ (Auckland) meeting is 21st Oct.

7:30 pm . Rockridge Road, Penrose. Place is called the Danish House. Parking out front.

Major agenda item will , of course, be ACC levies, and possible responses to them. It'd be nice to see a few more than the half dozen stalwarts there. But I'm not holding my breath.

If there is a good attendance, the Chairman will be enforcing rather more of a formal meeting process than usual, just to stop things getting out of hands.

A few ground rules for said meeting may as well be played through now:

1. We all know it's evil and unfair. No point preaching to the choir. So, no speeches along those lines. (Just because of time constraints)
2. We all know that bike accidents are caused by cagers. Or not. So unless you have evidence none of us know about, again, no preaching to the choir.
3. Personally, I'm receptive to direct action. But some degree of realism is required. So no explosives etc
4. What IS required is reasons WHY we shouldn't pay what ACC *claim* we cost. Factual. Specific. So if you know something, or you are good at crunching statistics, that might be useful.
5. If it does come to something formal, only financial paid up BRONZ members get to vote (though I wouldn't expect such formality).
6. We aren't going to convince the Government to abolish ACC, or totally change the way it operates. Politics is the art of the possible. So the chairman will cut short any discussions along such lines. Which includes philosophical debate on whether ACC should be privatised or not.

The chairman (I'm told) is a grumpy old cunt. Try not to rile him too much.

BRONZ (Wellington) does not exist . So if anyone can volunteer to coordinate matters in the capital, that might be good.

[ital916]

I do hope there will be a good turnout. Not much gets me protesting but this really grinds my gears. An increase in ACC levies was expected but not to that amount.

Is cash on the night accepted for membership?

[Mom]

I do hope there will be a good turnout. Not much gets me protesting but this really grinds my gears. An increase in ACC levies was expected but not to that amount.

Is cash on the night accepted for membership?

Actually that is a very good question, Ixion, perhaps your treasurer will want to bring his/her receipt book along

[Ixion]

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Sure is .

[Mom]

Sure is .

Out of interest, what is the sub?

[Jantar]

Ixion,

Can you supply contact details, and BRONZ meeting dates for all venues around New Zealand.

I can't come up to Auckland next week for a meeting, but I will certainly go to Dunedin or Christchurch for something this important.

I will support a nationwide ride on Parliament (clogging the Wellington motorways) as a first step.

[Hiflyer]

I will support a nationwide ride on Parliament (clogging the Wellington motorways) as a first step.

Myself included

[Devil]

This is going in my calendar.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Ixion,

Can you supply contact details, and BRONZ meeting dates for all venues around New Zealand.

I can't come up to Auckland next week for a meeting, but I will certainly go to Dunedin or Christchurch for something this important.

I will support a nationwide ride on Parliament (clogging the Wellington motorways) as a first step.

I'll will probably go to a Dunedin BRONZ memeting... and would support the protest ride if I could get time of work and afford the ferry...

BRONZ Otago http://bronzotago.co.nz/

[Ixion]

$20 per person, or $30 per family. Per year.

The various regional BRONZ chapters work semi independantly, BRONZ national is just a policy and coordination thing.

BRONZ Timaru and BRONZ Otago will doubtless be considering their response, but I don't know what it is at present.

Contact details for all regions are on the BRONZ website

[tomobedlam]

$20 per person, or $30 per family. Per year.

BRONZ website

Wow that's so cheap it's not even 3% of the proposed acc levies for over 600cc bikes

[CookMySock]

Is cash on the night accepted for membership?

Cash on the night is universally accepted, son.

Everywhere you go, cash on the night is the bizo.

Steve

[hospitalfood]

Call you local MP in protest, leave a message if you cannot get through !

[Brian d marge]

Next BRONZ (Auckland ) meeting is 21st Oct.

7:30 pm . Rockridge Road, Penrose. Place is called the Danish House. Parking out front.

Major agenda item will , of course, be ACC levies, and possible responses to them. It'd be nice to see a few more than the half dozen stalwarts there. But I'm not holding my breath.

If there is a good attendance, the Chairman will be enforcing rather more of a formal meeting process than usual, just to stop things getting out of hands.

A few ground rules for said meeting may as well be played through now:

4. What IS required is reasons WHY we shouldn't pay what ACC *claim* we cost. Factual. Specific. So if you know something, or you are good at crunching statistics, that might be useful.

.

I cant think off one reason why we shouldn't

apart from hey this is my toy and its my right to ride .... and crash

the only plausible one I can think of is that it reduces congestion

Stephen

[Rover]

Can't make the meeting, but assuming we can't make the Government change its mind on he principal, we might be able to influence when the increase applies. 600cc seems pretty random. maybe it would be fairer if based on power to weight, or 600 cc raised to say 900cc