Ha! Take that Mr Smith!

[Spearfish]

Regardless of all the dosh now in ACC's coffers (which apparently magically didn't exist until very recently) it won't stop their efforts to get those demonic accidents-just-waiting-to-happen two wheeled inconveniences off the road...

Anything as kewl as riding a motorcycle around a country like this one can never be taken off the road and the more people I can encourage to take it up the better it will be for me in the long run.. (I know it sounds simplistic)


I think its up to us how complicated that simple pleasure will get.

[Katman]

Anything as kewl as riding a motorcycle around a country like this one can never taken off the road and the more people I can encourage to take it up the better it will be for me in the long run.. (I know it sounds simplistic)

It would be great to think all motorcyclists wanted to share the experience with whoever was interested but unfortunately there's a large number of motorcyclists who are against the idea of motorcycling becoming any more mainstream.

They're usually the one's claiming they "don't give a fuck what anyone thinks of their riding".

What they don't realise though is that numbers are the only thing that will save motorcycling.

[DMNTD:Me]

He rides a Bonneville last time I heard

So that would make it a Thai-umph?

[5150]

So that would make it a Thai-umph?

Duuh ???

[swbarnett]

It would be great to think all motorcyclists wanted to share the experience with whoever was interested but unfortunately there's a large number of motorcyclists who are against the idea of motorcycling becoming any more mainstream.

I've got mixed feelings about this. While I'm only too happy that my passion is shared with more people I do remember the days when there just wern't enough of us on the road for the polies or the public to worry about us. We could do our own thing without being noticed.

What they don't realise though is that numbers are the only thing that will save motorcycling.

Although it just may be the opposite. It seems to fall on deaf ears that the accident numbers are up because there are more bikes on the road so it may be that the only way to avoid the glare of the anti-biker is to be so few that we once again slip under the radar.

[puddytat]

If the dark greens get on the bandwagon over emissions any acc cut will soon be wiped away (just look at the cost increases for cars with the new import restrictions), they tend to be a party that while shaking your hand, with a smile that resembles a burnt out wooden fort, flips you through a plate glass window.

Plus they were going to remove every 2 stroke.

I admit the Greens arnt perfect,but it wasnt the Greens who were in power when that legislation was passed. And I think that the worst examples of that kind of behaviour as you describe above will be either National, Labour or Winston.

People are just so selfish,egotistical & self opinionated these days, we're never going to solve any fucking thing.

[baptist]

Threr was a lot of
If that is the standard of writing from an editor, perhaps he should head off to the UK and write for The Sun.

Nah he's to much of a Tosser for the Sun, they have standards, even if the bar is in the gutter...

My point was that cc rating should not determine the level of risk of injury. You can do as much damage on a 125cc learner as you can on a 1200 cc cruiser or 1000cc sports bike. And that is not taking into account of ratio of who was at fault. If the roads we ride on are bad quality then no wander we have more accidents. For government it's easier to tax us more then having to fork out to fix every road we ride on. Why not make roads better quality and spend money on rider and car driver education. I can wager that accident/ serious injury / death rate would fall dramatically.

Careful, you could get arrested for spreading radically subversive ideas like that!!!!

Yeah Ive found I can only ride one at a time. They need a better system for multiple bike owners.
Im voting Labour. I voted National last time (sorry about that) & they also took 50000 in funding from the daycare centre where my wife works. I hope Winnie or someone like that gets 5% & gets together with Labour & tosses them out.

My wife too.... That cut along with others I see affecting the communities most needy means I will as always be voting any way but blue... I think Key is actually a decent guy, but Prick Smiff ..... ooh

[Katman]

Although it just may be the opposite. It seems to fall on deaf ears that the accident numbers are up because there are more bikes on the road so it may be that the only way to avoid the glare of the anti-biker is to be so few that we once again slip under the radar.

I don't think we'll ever slip back under the radar.

As our numbers decrease it will only make the politicians job of getting rid of us easier.

[swbarnett]

I don't think we'll ever slip back under the radar.

As our numbers decrease it will only make the politicians job of getting rid of us easier.

unfortunately you're probably right. Genie out of the bottle and all that.

[Tigadee]

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

I thought statistics were more like wonder [push-up] bras - What little is pushed up and exaggerated to create maximum effect, then when the real stuff is revealed, it turns out to be disappointing...

[5150]

So a week or so I wrote to the leader of the opposition HOn Mr Geoff asking him what Labours policy was going to be regarding bike regos and ACC if they were going to be voted into government. This is the response I got back this morning.



Interesting approach me thinks

[brett7777]

so we dunno what their policy is yet? They better come up with something because I sure aint voting National.
It is so sad that National are polling so high.
I think watching too much Jersey Shore, Kardashians, etc, has affected the brains of the people. it was all part of John Key's master plan to mold people's minds & accept his stealing robbing policies

[brett7777]

I'll give Labour one big A +++ tho. They replied. I didnt get a reply from my local national MP, or from Banks or Brown when they were campaigning.
For that matter, the local council hasnt replied to my latest communication either.
So go Labour!

[Tigadee]

What they don't realise though is that numbers are the only thing that will save motorcycling.

AND make it less expensive - so less of an expensive hobby and more of a logical, viable transport option.

[Robert Taylor]

Lets look at it from another angle, what are motorcyclists doing as a collective group to make motorcycling safer and to reduce the cost to the economy of accidents? Perhaps this has been answered in detail elsewhere and Im not taking sides as I derive income from motorcycling.
Everyday I see people riding scooters with little or no protective gear and I wonder aloud by how much that section of the motorcycling population is creating excess taxpayer funded health expense for the sake of a minimum level of saftey equipment.
I think these are fair questions that can be answered subjectively without anyone getting emotional