Bike rego course of action

[Quasievil]

I suppose you guys who are going to put your rego on hold but still ride will be decllining any ACC assistance should the worst happen?

Yes as soon as they take the ACC funding component from the petrol, employer/ employee levies etc etc etc, then more than happy to make no claims, until then happy to fuck them up with as much as I can.

[peasea]

Ours are going on 'hold' during the winter months. So few cops around here I doubt either of us will get nailed during the darker times. Besides, if you're not 'legal' it pays to ride calmly so as to not attract attention to yourself. I'm already at work before sunup during winter and if I get plucked on the way home I think it'll be a bit of bad luck. I'm willing to chance it though; fuck ACC, Nick Smith and their lying ilk.

[Oakie]

So you're basically rolling over despite all the evidence that points to the hikes in ACC being uneccessary? Ever heard of the poem "First they came..."?

Yes I am. I can see the writing on the wall ... and I'm not going bang my head on it any more. Judging by the huge reduction in posts in the ACC forum I'm not the only one who has made that decision. Doesn't mean I accept the ACCs mathematics ... just that I need to put my energy into things with more likelihood of a return.

[Oakie]

Yes as soon as they take the ACC funding component from the petrol, employer/ employee levies etc etc etc, then more than happy to make no claims, until then happy to fuck them up with as much as I can.

Point taken. Claim away!

[oldrider]

I suppose it's common knowledge to most but what date does this increase in ACC levies on our bikes take place exactly?

I'm stuffed if I can remember!

[kwaka_crasher]

Yes I am. I can see the writing on the wall ... and I'm not going bang my head on it any more. Judging by the huge reduction in posts in the ACC forum I'm not the only one who has made that decision. Doesn't mean I accept the ACCs mathematics ... just that I need to put my energy into things with more likelihood of a return.

Yeah, that great NZer apathy the government relies on so heavily is really coming into it's own. Have you thought of becoming a Jew and shuffling along to the gas chamber - the writing is on the wall after all!

I suppose it's common knowledge to most but what date does this increase in ACC levies on our bikes take place exactly?

I'm stuffed if I can remember!

1 July usually. I expect this year will be no exception.

[Oakie]

Yeah, that great NZer apathy the government relies on so heavily is really coming into it's own. Have you thought of becoming a Jew and shuffling along to the gas chamber - the writing is on the wall after all!

Apathy? Pragmatic? Depends on your point of view.
And why shuffle off when I'll have a fully registered bike to ride to the chamber? Actually dude, that was not a very appropriate comment to make today as it's Holocaust Remembrance Day. Shalom to all my Hebrew friends.

[oldrider]

Yeah, that great NZer apathy the government relies on so heavily is really coming into it's own. Have you thought of becoming a Jew and shuffling along to the gas chamber - the writing is on the wall after all!



1 July usually. I expect this year will be no exception.

Hmmm, at that rate if I register next time for 3 months then for 15 months, "before July", I should be able to maximise the time before it actually effects me!

Meanwhile the footsoldiers may have won the war! (That thought really digs deep into my conscience)

When you think about it like that, it hammer's home the need to be "part of the action", rather than just a "passive bystander"!

I guess we can mop up the political fallout "after" the event, irrespective of "current political persuasion's"!

Surely it couldn't be any more confused than it is right now!

Regardless of who you vote for, they just mix up another fruit salad of worthless politicians to form a government and Tax the shit out of us and feather their own bloody nests at our expense!

AA, ACC, Smith, Key, the National coalition and the previous Labour coalitions, have all tinkered with and lied through their teeth about ACC and it's funding, including the levy charges to us taxpayers!

Maybe the peasants are revolting and with "just cause" it would seem!

[ukusa]

Ours are going on 'hold' during the winter months. So few cops around here I doubt either of us will get nailed during the darker times. Besides, if you're not 'legal' it pays to ride calmly so as to not attract attention to yourself. I'm already at work before sunup during winter and if I get plucked on the way home I think it'll be a bit of bad luck. I'm willing to chance it though; fuck ACC, Nick Smith and their lying ilk.

I haven't been pulled up in over 5 years, so I think the odds are on my side. I'll be taking the risk. Stick it to them.

[kwaka_crasher]

Hmmm, at that rate if I register next time for 3 months then for 15 months, "before July", I should be able to maximise the time before it actually effects me!

I'm expecting you'll find it'll start affecting you as soon as you pay for a vehicle license that covers any period after 1st July 2010...

I think the date of the new fees is 1st July. But I expect you'll be charged pro-rata if you relicense for a period that ends after 1 July so there'd be no point in getting a 12 month license on 30 June for example because you'd just get 1 day at the old rate and the balance at the new rate. Don't hold me to that though - they may not have implemented it as legislated!

See Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Act 1986.

[oldrider]

I'm expecting you'll find it'll start affecting you as soon as you pay for a vehicle license that covers any period after 1st July 2010...

Sheeesh, I "struggle" with that one, always have, must have been badly potty trained!

[kwaka_crasher]

Sheeesh, I "struggle" with that one, always have, must have been badly potty trained!

Someone called me a pedantic git, so I'm going to do my best to live up to that!

[Pixie]

I think you'll find you'll be charged pro-rata

Like a hooker in a native tree?
Wha?


I will no longer make "automatic payments",I will wait till I am served with "request for payment" in person.

[mikeey01]

Can one only pay the registration fee and opt out of paying the acc levy?
In other words send a cheque for the registration levy only, of course it will all get thrown back in your face but when one is pulled over one can produce said letter saying you have tryed to register your bike but they simple won't accept it.
Is this at all possible?

Any rego payable on a horse and cart?

[DingoZ]

Paying the $ for rego. Does not mean I agree with the principal of the hikes. But I have more important things to worry about than riding to and from work everyday, wondering if I'll get stopped and get a ticket, and have to fork out more hard earned dollars which could be spent on rego'ing it in the first place.