Quote Originally Posted by Ronin View Post
You will, with a couple of acts take away any positive support that Ma and Pa public have towards us. The public that were quietly (and not so quietly) impressed at the sight of 6000 bikes, 10,000 well behaved bikers and a raft of shattered misconceptions will instead shake their heads and think we have reverted to type.
I agree.
From my small sampling of comments from people I know (along the lines of "Why are bikers doing that? It will just piss of people who have nothing to do with the ACC levies!"), it's not going to help. Like you said, people were very impressed by the rallies (once again, people who know I ride told me how impressed they were). They'll be less impressed and supportive if they feel they're bearing the brunt of bikers' ire for no apparent reason.