AA. Just plain bastards

[Swoop]

Generally I think they are good advocates for road users in NZ.

Unfortunately, they only advocate for you if your method of conveyance has four wheels under it...

[BMWST?]

OK.

First the AA stabbed us in the back on the ACC levies.Oh yes, in case you didn't know, it was AA egging the ACC on many months ago that encouraged them (ACC) to think they could get away with it.

Now, yet another example of their anti-motorcycle jihad



Well, I'm a member now. Fortresses are more easily taken when your army is INSIDE the walls.


I strongly encourage other motorcyclists to join up


And we'll make their next AGM a avery interesting one.

long time member,used them about three times,twice for lockouts and a couple of no start/flat battery incidents.Think the wife also did a battery swap with them.Would be interesting to see if we could find out how many members ARE motorcyclists.They dont gather any information in that regard,they may be surprised.

[allycatz]

Wait for a long weekend, take a few hundred bikes, clog up the prepay carpark, then have the public stand in line behind qeue of bikers while each biker fluffs around removing helmet, gloves etc to get $2 from inside pocket of jacket, then see if Joe Public supports the AA after being held up on their journey

[Ender EnZed]

Not all single vehicle motorcyle accidents are rider fault (perhaps a campaign to give huge fine to fuckers leaving gravel and diesel on the road would be useful)

Am I correct in my assumption that most oil/diesel/shit on the road falls out of trucks? Perhaps the AA could try doing something useful and campaign to make it harder for trucks to get a COF. (or whatever the truck wof equivalent is)

[Ixion]

..
If I join AA do I get a proxy vote on their election of officers or do I have to attend their meetings?

I believe that proxys are available.

[chef]

F the AA give me back my $120 for failing my cage learners!@!

[p.dath]

Thinking about it, it is the "Automobile Association".

I guess when you reflect upon their name, they really are representing who they say - car owners.

Perhaps us motorcycle members (me included) have expected something from them (motorcycle suppport) when that simply is not their aim.

[Jantar]

Thinking about it, it is the "Automobile Association".

I guess when you reflect upon their name, they really are representing who they say - car owners......

A good point if it were not for the fact that way back in the dim dark ages when the term automobile was first used it simply referred to a self propelled vehicle and that included two wheeled ones. Its only in more recent years that motorcycle and automobile have been sperated in terms of definition.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

A good point if it were not for the fact that way back in the dim dark ages when the term automobile was first used it simply referred to a self propelled vehicle and that included two wheeled ones. Its only in more recent years that motorcycle and automobile have been sperated in terms of definition.

So how do I start the "McANZ" Motorcycle Assaiotion New Zealand
errr any one want to join

[NZPETE]

Am I correct in my assumption that most oil/diesel/shit on the road falls out of trucks? Perhaps the AA could try doing something useful and campaign to make it harder for trucks to get a COF. (or whatever the truck wof equivalent is)

Your dead right from my point of view. Canned off my bike in Blenheim, just this side of the #2 Dashwood bridge on the up hill bit a few years ago. No reason for it but the cops found diesel on the road where it happened. Told me it would be from a truck that had over filled in Blenheim and that it would have puked out when he started on the up hill section.
Smashed my ankle to bits and spent quite some time in hospital. Have had five operations on it since but still walk like a monkey with a banana stuck up its arse! Have now had a knee replacement due to the fact the accident made me walk funny and has fucked my back but I still work hard and ride my bike so lifes still bloody good. Yeah, fuck the diesel
Cheers!!

[pritch]

They have been nothing but apologists and PR agents for police bullshit.

Funny you should mention that...

The only AA Board member I know personally was an MOT regional chief.
(The terminological inexactitudes as to his job title are deliberate.)

[kave]

If we want motorcyclists to roll the A.A. board at the next AGM, perhaps we should think about suitable patsies to replace them with (I assume rolling the board is what we are intending?).

[What?]

A good point if it were not for the fact that way back in the dim dark ages when the term automobile was first used it simply referred to a self propelled vehicle and that included two wheeled ones. Its only in more recent years that motorcycle and automobile have been sperated in terms of definition.

Further to which, for many years most AA service men travelled by motorcycle to rescue the damsels in distress with their broken Austins.

[JohnC]

We need a motorcycle spokeperson body, maybe BRONZ or something new, don't need to talk sense, just a self appointed united force to bomblast the Govt with.

As BRONZ we did that during the 80's,we even had a member on the NZ road safty council and went head to head with AA several times.
We got no backing from NZ motorcyclists, so in the end most of us packed it in.
Even today the only reason anybody takes notice of BRONZ is because of the ACC thing,,,good luck with that,,,you get what you deserve.

An yeah,this time I did say it,,,you do get what you deserve.

[FROSTY:Me]

Sorry guys i'm struggling with this one. from what i'm seeing here you lot feel that bikers shouldn't pay any toll if they use the toll roads?
Isn't that hypocracy?
i don't think that bikes should pay the same toll as a car but surely if you use it you expect to pay for it