Bikeoi? I plan to ride not walk.

[mowgli]

Bikeoi comes from hikoi which means to step out or pace. I don't plan to walk my bike to Parliament This is a biker issue so shouldn't we be using biker terms and organising a Rally? We could give it a bilingual name I guess.

Rally against ACC! Whakahe ki Te Kaporeihana Awhina Hunga Whara!

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Tui anyone?

[klingon]

Bikeoi comes from hikoi which means to step out or pace. I don't plan to walk my bike to Parliament This is a biker issue so shouldn't we be using biker terms and organising a Rally? We could give it a bilingual name I guess.

Rally against ACC! Whakahe ki Te Kaporeihana Awhina Hunga Whara!

Yes, BIKOI/BIKEOI does indeed come from Hikoi. We tried to hold a hui to discuss the matter but cancelled it when we realised it would have to be a bui.

I have run the name past a few of my Reo-speaking friends and they thought it was a funny, catchy label. Although fully aware of the denotation of the original word in Te Reo Maori, the connotation for speakers of New Zealand English is enough to make the pun work.

Sorry if I sounded too much like a linguist when I wrote that.

[k2w3]

A cunning linguist. Good reply.

[Ixion]

Bikeoi comes from hikoi which means to step out or pace. I don't plan to walk my bike to Parliament This is a biker issue so shouldn't we be using biker terms and organising a Rally? We could give it a bilingual name I guess.

Rally against ACC! Whakahe ki Te Kaporeihana Awhina Hunga Whara!


Tui anyone?

No, the BIKEOI is not a rally. At a rally bikers make their own way to the end destination individually.

With the BIKEOI we want group travel. A group of bikes (as many as possible) leave a distant start point. As they progress through the country toward Wellington, other bikers join on at each town along the way (having already congregated there and made their own local protest) . Some of them will continue all the way to Wellington, others, who can't make that will ride along a while then split off for home. Like a hikoi.

So the BIKEOI keeps growing bigger until it arrives in Wellington, and along the way it is a great mass of riders, not individual bikes heading through the towns.

[MarkH]

Bikeoi comes from hikoi which means to step out or pace. I don't plan to walk my bike to Parliament

But Bikeoi does not mean walking a bike! hikoi may mean walking, but bikeoi is a made up word which means something different to hikoi. If we were talking about walking we could have just used the word hikoi instead of making up a new word!

[DMCD]

We tried to hold a hui to discuss the matter but cancelled it when we realised it would have to be a bui.

ROTFL bui, ha good one .

[sinfull]

ROTFL bui, ha good one .

Could have called it a Tui !!!

[Ender EnZed]

hikoi which means to step out or pace.

We're associating it with "big protest to parliament". I think BIKEOI works well.

[Laxi]

cant say Im fussed on the term Bikeoi, but who gives a f what its called, call it martha for all I care! I'll still be there

[NZsarge]

I agree with Mowgli, "protest ride" is understandable by all people, even those who are not taking part ie: general public. I don't think it's any great drama but I the average person would say wtf is a bikeoi?

[ynot slow]

Why do we need an acronym for all things,or a trendy title,for me it's a protest ride,and if we can convey to public it is a ride to protest the rise in ACC levy on rego solely to target bikers,the public may understand it,rather than saying a bikoi or other stupid(in publics thinking)name.

Sure calling it a bikoi on here is fine,just the word means jack shit to other people without the knowledge of what it is we're aiming for.

[SARGE]

So the BIKEOI keeps growing bigger until it arrives in Wellington, and along the way it is a great mass of riders,

all carrying baseball bats and Molotov cocktails ...

[nothingflash]

cant say Im fussed on the term Bikeoi, but who gives a f what its called, call it martha for all I care! I'll still be there

yep, what he said...

[Headbanger]

Walk?

Ride?

I'm going to drive.....

[Ronin]

And that concludes tonight's session on cultural sensitivity.