ACC Levies. BRONZ meeting

[Mom]

At the back with the troublemakers. Ang was in her red leather jacket - she stood out like a sore thumb

You should have come said hello

[MadDuck]

Where were you last night? I didn't see you.

He was standing next to "Dave"......

[short-circuit]

You should have come said hello

I saw you briefly moving swifting towards the toilets - didn't look like you wanted to be held up.

[AD345]

There needs to be a way for fellow KB'rs to recognise each other.......


.....like a special wave or something.












I recognised Mom and Maha and BD and Ixion of course, surely it must have been GIJoe at the C&B in Ellerslie afterwards (those red camos are a kind of trademark right?). Careful sleuthing enables me to figure out which was likely to have been Klingon but I'm gutted not to have been able to pick out the Katman, thinking back now though I might have a vague idea and that would lead me to guess who PB was as well

[Brian d marge]

Next BRONZ (Auckland) meeting is

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Well what a handsome devil ( and well spoken , its was quite refreshing , well done ,,clear concise and articulate

Stephen

[inorganic]

listen stupid... prefacing your rants with ' listen stupid ' does not mean you are right .. ok... I presume you would prefer if the oil companies competed... or the supermarkerts? ... what is different about accident insurance?

[Katman]

but I'm gutted not to have been able to pick out the Katman,

Don't let it keep you awake at night.

[AD345]

Don't let it keep you awake at night.

Good point

But current and former "real" Katana owners should still have a secret ninja hand sign I reckon

[Katman]

But current and former "real" Katana owners should still have a secret ninja hand sign I reckon

Yes, but if we showed the rest we'd have to kill them all.

[Leyton]

Just had seen close up. Well done BRONZ! , ACC could not return a fair argument, and the point at the hole in the figures was a good one Well played.

[ldcroberts]

I read through the stats (link earlier in this thread), its quite interesting. There are big clumps of accident categories that show up. A lot of bike accidents are drivers going off the left of the road on a right hand turn on a vehicle more powerful they are used to, going off at left hand turns is about 2/3rds as likely. Next is cars turning at intersections across motorcycles coming the other way - or vehicles coming out of side roads into path of bike. Then bikes stopping at orange lights and the car behind charging into them. Most of these accidents are in broad daylight.

So the moral of the story is be careful when you ride a new bigger bike, don't stop for orange lights if there's a car behind you, look behind you when approaching intersections and side roads and slow down as much as possible and be alert.

Remember, at an intersection, a car is only looking at the traffic lights, they won't see cars/trucks/bikes etc - safest to slow down well before them and slowly too so the car behind you has to slow down too.

The intersections with Red arrows that go blank meaning it's OK to turn right should probably be outlawed as too many accidents happen there.

[la 102]

on television tonight, it was good to see the man from BRONZ shut down the sad sack faced noob from ACC .
nicely done.

[Motu]

It was a pretty good turn out...I hope BRONZ got plenty of new members.But as one guy pointout out - 30 years ago......

We filled the Auckland Town Hall,had Queen St totally covered in bikes.We had some leaflets printed up for our part and went around handing them out.A lot of riders turned up 30 years ago....and we didn't have the internet then...just very good communication in our motorcycling scene.

[jeffs]

Well being biker chicks the question now becomes:

"do they take them off first?"

Look if you do decide to burn your bra while wearing it, just remember to not be on your bike at the time, or under the ACC claims process this would be classified as a bike related claim. And your protest would be come a statistic to use against others.

[jeffs]

How about a new car bumper sticker

" Why ride a 50cc when you can drive a 5000cc, Keep New Zealand Mucky & Brown"
"Brought to you by the ACC, leaders in pollution related health claims, since 2009"