Bike protest at parlimant ground,,, Would you come,,

[emaN]

Looks like we're already getting somewhere then!

[Streetwise]

I tried to contact bronz but they seam to ignore people who ask the hard questions. i contacted 3 email addresses within there website and gor no reply,,, Not sure if that says anything about the organisation,,,

[bladez]

lets just set up tents and hold a rallie on there grounds and dont move untill they change the law

[Ixion]

I tried to contact bronz but they seam to ignore people who ask the hard questions. i contacted 3 email addresses within there website and gor no reply,,, Not sure if that says anything about the organisation,,,

Only ones who seem to reply to emails are Otago, who are much more active than any of the others.

[Streetwise]

that might explain it

[Skyryder]

lets just set up tents and hold a rallie on there grounds and dont move untill they change the law

Trouble is some of us have to go to work. But I admit a good ole ralley on the Parliment grounds..................mind you if there were thousands bet the cops would stop it.


Skyryder

[Streetwise]

Yea we dont have a wellington rally could be good.eahhhah

[Streetwise]

Very lttle interest, But still 75% of people would come,

[kevie]

The last ACC levy protest to parlament was 26th Oct 2002, I have pics of it on my website still.

The riders (final count about 800 bikes) started early from Auckland, picked up in numbers on way to Wellington where the petition was presented.
Did anyone take notice .......... nope ... even the media wasnt that interested lmao altho we did stop things in the town we passed through.

In the submission I put in, I mentioned I had had 2 injury accidents, both times taken out by a car at fault, yet I pay the ACC penalty for their bad driving.
Also mentioned the fact a large % of M/C accidents are offroaders which arent registered.

But to answer ... yeh provided I can get time off work I will again join the run to parlament.

[Smorg]

Yarda

[kevie]

Nah I think the count of heads on the 2002 rally was around 1200 people, and very limited police presence there, the rally was organized and peacefull, even had an MP as one of the riders and presenter of the petition (cant remember who he was tho), the only 2 MPs that we were met by was Rick Barker from the Labour Party and Heather Roy from ACT.
It was reported that also present in the crowd was Fraser Folster the Media Advisor for ACC.
While news media didnt seem interested raping and pillaging on the trip) I spoke later to a couple reatilers in Levin and they said the convoy of bikes brought Levin to a definate standstill as shoppers all went outside to watch us go through LOL
Not sure who organized the 2002 rally but was well executed.

[Streetwise]

It would be nice to organise another i think,,,, Just have to work throught he issues and make sure its a gower,

[kevie]

I dont think the objection is about the fact we pay ACC levies ... its more on the fact that many of the accidents involving motorcycles are either caused by a car or other vehicle catagory or they are offroaders of some sort and do not pay the registration therefore dont pay ACC levies and we get lumbered with it.

I recon the idea of having it lumped into petrol prices and taken off the registration of all catagories would be a fairer deal, and those that use the vehicle more pay more running on the thory that as they use more fuel theres a chance they are on the road more and pose a greater risk to being injured in an accident.

[campbellluke]

I think that it was better when bike Regos were closer to $300 rather than what they are now. Sadly people bitched about the ACC levy and under todays system you pay it back plus extra on Acc petrol tax. If you take off one tax, something is going to give. So when things are pretty sweet you shouldn't complain.

Lets say a family uses 2000 litres of petrol a year for their car. $100 is given to ACC.

I've never heard that cars were the largest factor in motorbike rider injuries. The crashes I've rode past are motorcyclist overcooking corners. And they seem to be highly overrepresented in stats for making mistakes like this.

However I can understand how people with multiple vehicles in their garage feel. Paying things a few times over.

The ACC difference with cars in the rego can be forgotten about with this system anyway. Because the majority of bikes use less fuel than cars.