Motorbike prejudice

[Elysium]

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[Oblivion]

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Somethings are impossible.

For everything else, there's Mastercard.

[Shadows]

Buy yourself a $300 shitbox car, spray paint it in dazzle pink and start bringing that to work instead.

[tigertim20]

keep parking it where it is.

if it comes up again, tell him that youll gladly move the bike, when EVERY car in the vicinity that is worth less than what you paid for the bike is ALSO told to fuck off.
politely of course.

Or for $500 Ill come tell him for you . . .

[cheshirecat]

Open a facebook page with a name similar to the landlord's co. Go round with some friends and do a video interview (stay polite and calm) on the Co's doorstep the post it on Youtube and send to to TVNZ or some other tv channel which doesnt understand research.
Oh set up a blog site looking like the landlords site and fill it with neg coments. Be care not to slander and keep it legal

[oldrider]

I believe all this prejudice is at the root of why motorcycles are involved in so many accidents versus other vehicles!

They don't see us because they don't "subconsciously" think we are legitimate, therefore we don't count!

The "motorbikes are an unnecessary nuisance" attitude is fostered right from the "top" echelon of society!

Until that "public attitude" is changed we will always be subjected to the prejudice complained of in this thread.

That is precisely why the government and ACC used us as the Judas sheep to launch their excessive levy campaign!

It was easy to convince the public that what they were doing had legitimacy and it worked for them!

They use the same tactics to drive the Tenure review for the removal of farmers from the high country and replace them with DOC parks! (pick the easy ones first and get it rolling the rest simply fall quietly into line)

We need to run a campaign reinforcing our position as: "legitimate, legal and necessary road users"!

If we want change, it is the public psyche that we have to change first.

To quote Robbie Burns: "Would that god the gift to give us, to see our selves as others see us"!

The public perception is the public reality, currently the public perception of motorcycles and motorcyclists is not where we want it to be or where it needs to be if we want due recognition!

The change has to begin with us, monkey see monkey do has been with us since the beginning of time!

We are quite possibly our own worst enemy! (Katman may have mentioned this occasionally)

Physician's, heal thy self.

[Gremlin]

I had something similar at a client's offices a while ago. The landlords of the building didn't like me parking out front on the entry.

Fair enough... now I park in the car parks instead. Good they are free eh? Parking is hard enough in the area, so hopefully I'm at least a tiny thorn in their side. There's a parking building just around the corner, with space for bikes/scooters, but that's hardly going to annoy them, is it?

[Oakie]

Just ask him why he thinks it lowers the profile of the area. Tell if if he can come up with a statistically supported reason you'll consider moving it.

otherwise ... no reason to move