Protest today put your Rego on hold next weekend

[FastBikeGear]

Is it time for a little civil disobedience?

It only takes a couple of minutes to put your registration on hold. You can do it over the phone by calling this number 0800 108 809.

And you can take it off hold just as quickly.

How about as a protest that next Friday the 18th we all put our registrations on hold.

When you next need to ride your bike you simply ring up and take it off hold (if you want to be legal).

This protest action won't save you any money (unless you leave it on hold over 3 months). The intent is not to save money but to send a clear message to the government that we will not accept such a blatantly unfair proposal.

1. because no fault means that we shouldn't accept the blame (and be asked to pay extra) becasue we come off worst when car drivers injure us.
   
2. because many of us own multiple vehicles are being asked to pay mulitple levies, yet can only drive/ride one vehicle at a time.
   
3. Because riders of larger bikes are being asked to pay higher ACC levies and there has been a complete failure to demonstrate any correlation with any statistics to explain why this should be the case.
   
4. Becasue New Zealanders are fair minded, fair players, on the rugby field etc and we just won't accept something that is so blatently unfair.

So far we haven't achieved anything that Nick Smith wasn't going to give us anyway.
And for those who say it's about the prinicipals - we have won nothing, nada, zip!

The real protest starts now.

[2wheeldrifter]

I thought your rego had to be ready for renewal, you have 1 month to place on hold from its expiry date???? Otherwise if it's still current you are just eating into paid rego???

That's what I got told... something on those lines...??

[Katman]

My bike's rego runs out at the end of January and it will be placed on indefinate hold then.

I think it's time for mass civil disobedience. If everyone refuses to pay their registration we can still force them to rethink.

[Swoop]

When you put your rego on hold, the current period of licencing has to come to an end, THEN your rego goes on hold.
Just do it when you get the renewal notice.

[FastBikeGear]

I thought your rego had to be ready for renewal, you have 1 month to place on hold from its expiry date???? Otherwise if it's still current you are just eating into paid rego???

That's what I got told... something on those lines...??

You are absolutely correct. Unless you put your rego on hold for more than 3 months you won't save a cent. As I said this won't save you money it's a protest action designed to show the media and government that we are not appeased. For this protest to work (send a signal) we only need to put our regos on hold for a very short period of time and as soon as you need to ride it legally again you can phone up and release the hold. No paper work, no cost, no hassle a simple and easy protest. If we all ring up next Friday we will swamp the LTSA.

If we all do it on different dates as our rego comes up for expiry ....well that's not a protest...that's just saving money.

[Katman]

Protest action of this nature will not alienate any of our potential support base.

In fact, as car drivers see us refusing to pay (and as a result, gridlocking the court system) they are most likely to start doing the same.

[Bodir]

The 18th does not sound good, as we are doing a protest on the 19th. We should have them of for a day at least. What about over Christmas, how many are using their bikes during the three days?

[T.W.R]

It only takes a couple of minutes to put your registration on hold. You can do it over the phone by calling this number 0800 108 809.

Quicker doing over the web

https://transact.nzta.govt.nz/transa...ion/entry.aspx

[FastBikeGear]

The 18th does not sound good, as we are doing a protest on the 19th. We should have them of for a day at least. What about over Christmas, how many are using their bikes during the three days?

Ok what are the date preferences for this protest?

[Katman]

Ok what are the date preferences for this protest?

How about the date that each individuals bike rego expires.

You will not gain any support if you're suggesting wasting currently paid for rego.

[Headbanger]

Quicker doing over the web

https://transact.nzta.govt.nz/transa...ion/entry.aspx

But they won't even notice....

The only way this would work is if all the staff are running hot all day doing the paperwork, well PC work.

[FastBikeGear]

But they won't even notice....

The only way this would work is if all the staff are running hot all day doing the paperwork, well PC work.

Headbanger, good point we should use the 0800 number instead of doing this online.

[T.W.R]

Least it'd actually get done & you'd know it'd be done rather than dealing with some half dead desk jockey.

What'd be better than them being unaware of a heap of registrations being put on hold then getting swamped by all the notifications on their data base or manually doing the holds and realising something is up with all the phone calls randomly coming in to them ?

[Pixie]

Least it'd actually get done & you'd know it'd be done rather than dealing with some half dead desk jockey.

What'd be better than them being unaware of a heap of registrations being put on hold then getting swamped by all the notifications on their data base or manually doing the holds and realising something is up with all the phone calls randomly coming in to them ?

If they fuck it up all the better.
Cop stops you-checks rego- information unreliable can't ticket you.

[swbarnett]

This is all very well for what seems to be the majority of bikers (I may be wrong in this assumption) that only ride on the weekends and the odd week day but what about those of us that have no other transport and use the bike daily?