So how many 600cc+ bikers actually earn 80k+?

**SMOKEU** · 2nd December 2009, 17:35

Originally Posted by The Stranger

. Most of the single vehicle accidents are cheap, either rider dies or at worst breaks a bone.

I broke a rib once and I was off work being paid by ACC for 6 weeks. Lucky for ACC I earn fuckall, but if I was a high income earner off work for 6 weeks being paid for it, then it quickly adds up to the thousands of $.

**nothingflash** · 2nd December 2009, 17:37

Originally Posted by banditrider

Would still be up in arms about these increases if earned 800k...

me too...

**Tank** · 2nd December 2009, 17:40

Originally Posted by banditrider

Would still be up in arms about these increases if earned 800k...

Indeed this is true. Many who earn more have bigger loans on house etc - Just because the earn more - it does not mean that it is disposable.

**sAsLEX** · 2nd December 2009, 17:42

Originally Posted by jrandom

I used to earn fookin heaps au, but I changed jobs cos I felt like it, and now I earn six tenths of fuck-all.

Not before you taught me at uni and let me earn what I do.....

YVAN EHT NIOJ!

**Headbanger** · 2nd December 2009, 17:46

Dont even have a proper job, what we have left will be gone by January, Mortgage, 2 kids,a wife,2 cars and a bike.

The job Im trying to get is 35k a year.

**Mully** · 2nd December 2009, 18:12

Nope.

We both earn a decent whack - but have about a quarter of a million dollars worth of mortgage (with a quick payoff time) hanging over us.

If these proposed levies (or even close) go ahead, I would seriously consider flogging the bike off if it wouldn't send me mental within about two weeks.

And I'd consider getting a 600cc instead, but I'm a fat bastard, so it'd be slower than a water buffalo on valium.

**rainman** · 2nd December 2009, 18:12

Nope, self/unemployed, so nowhere near that. (A lot closer to zip, zero, nada, in fact). Have been there though. But my bike is old and cheap though, so I don't see how it makes a difference.

Originally Posted by Headbanger

Dont even have a proper job, what we have left will be gone by January, Mortgage, 2 kids,a wife,2 cars and a bike.

The job Im trying to get is 35k a year.

I hear ya, buddy. And my wife's contract ends in a few weeks, too, so our income goes down from teachers wages to bugger all.

**onearmedbandit** · 2nd December 2009, 18:31

Used to earn more than that when I bought my current ride, now less but still got the thou, and now a 600 as well to support.

**Paul in NZ** · 2nd December 2009, 18:35

Whats happening to this country?

Its OK to tax big bikes cos they are for for rich people? Honestly, this is not right at all...

**Ocean1** · 2nd December 2009, 18:42

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

Whats happening to this country?

Its OK to tax big bikes cos they are for for rich people? Honestly, this is not right at all...

Where you been? It's always been that way, what's the point of taxing the poor?

**MadDuck** · 2nd December 2009, 18:45

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

Its OK to tax big bikes cos they are for for rich people? Honestly, this is not right at all...

I blame all those lawyers and accountants riding Harleys!

**Katman** · 2nd December 2009, 18:52

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

I broke a rib once and I was off work being paid by ACC for 6 weeks.

What a homo.

I had a couple of ribs busted from a kicking by an angry drunk German at the Bierfest one year. I was back on the bike couriering two days later.

That's the problem with this country - too many homos claiming when they should just harden the fuck up.

**SMOKEU** · 2nd December 2009, 18:54

Originally Posted by Katman

What a homo.

I had a couple of ribs busted from a kicking by an angry drunk German at the Bierfest one year. I was back on the bike couriering two days later.

That's the problem with this country - too many homos claiming when they should just harden the fuck up.

No you're a homo. My employers would't let me work at all with a broken rib. They told me I should take 6 weeks off work and be on ACC. I didn't have a choice in the matter.

**Brett** · 2nd December 2009, 18:59

Wow I actually expected more people on here to be over the 80K mark to be honest...like quite a bit over. But then I do have a warped sense of reality, I won't stop scheming and coming up with money making business plans untill I can afford a Any bike I want in any colour I want, as well as a Lambo LP640...just like this one...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-228973494.htm

Thing is though, at the end of the day it is only money, you can't take it with you when you die and you sure can't judge your worth by ho wmuch of it you have managed to accumulate. One thing I am trying hard to teach myself is to be satisfied with the blessings I already have.

ACC hikes would irk me no matter how much coin I had.