Chance of a lifetime: YOU can decide on the message that will unite all bikers

[Conquiztador]

The other small problem with that Riders are Voters thing Marty is that...
It was going to be a defining moment for a certain group who were about to take it to Wellington about this time last year, but then...
It was shelved a few weeks out because ...not even 24 people with the same goal, could agree on how it should unfold.

Therefore the only way is to go back to basics until we find one thing all bikers can agree on. Will be something really simple type: Freedom to ride whenever and where ever we want to, no more rego/acc hikes!, no new bike legislation, or something even more basic like We like to ride.

[skippa1]

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions

[MSTRS:Me]

If we choose our actions well, we exert control over the consequences. Mostly.

[shrub]

I actually quite like the way things are gong.

Hear me out. My bike has no rego. When I ride now I get a little buzz. The same kind of buzz I used to get when I was a youngin on my L plates, taking the misses for a blat on the GB400. I was illegal.
While the cars I own are all Rego'd. The bike will stay unrego'd (unless the ACC thing changes). I have southern cross healthcare. So they can patch me up for being a rebel.
I actually think this might bring more of the "biker spirit" out in the long run. The softcocks either won't be able to afford the ACC levies, or will be scared off by B.S. marketing. Leave only us normal folk 'scum' left for the cops the chase.
Only thing I will have to watch will be those damn demerit points again. Will be a case of getting to 95. Then locking the bike up for a year and doing it all again.
So if your serious about going head to head with ACC/govt. Stop filling their coffers with biker money. Live a little and stop being soft cocks.
Exciting times ahead.

My rego ran out in June and is now on hold. Over the last 10 years I have been pulled up 6 times for various things apart from booze checkpoints, so at $200 a pop that makes it $120.00 a year for rego. The biggest risk is from parking nazis, but in my experience they very rarely check bikes in the places I park.

[Oblivion]

Ride for the thrill, not the spill.

[Swoop]

When many of us (approx 9,000) rode to the beehive on the Bikeoi to protest against the increase in the ACC levies we all agreed that the increase was unfair and too much.

Yup. Sounds like "get fucked" to me!

Fuck me, this is like teaching a special needs class.

Well, you are a special needs teacher.

[Oblivion]

Well, you are a special needs teacher.

Someone has to dun help us speshul needz peoplez

[skippa1]

Well, you are a special needs teacher.

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron." -- Horace Mann

[Fatt Max]

The other small problem with that Riders are Voters thing Marty is that...
It was going to be a defining moment for a certain group who were about to take it to Wellington about this time last year, but then...
It was shelved a few weeks out because ...not even 24 people with the same goal, could agree on how it should unfold.

……and to this day those that tried the hardest are still getting kicked in the gonads one way or another

But hey, all you need is love……and pastry…plenty of pastry…

[Maha]

……and to this day those that tried the hardest are still getting kicked in the gonads one way or another

But hey, all you need is love……and pastry…plenty of pastry…

Short or flakey?....no not the gonads, the pastry.

[scumdog]

My rego ran out in June and is now on hold. Over the last 10 years I have been pulled up 6 times for various things apart from booze checkpoints, so at $200 a pop that makes it $120.00 a year for rego. The biggest risk is from parking nazis, but in my experience they very rarely check bikes in the places I park.

You forgot to add the 15 demerits that each such ticket will now have along with it...

[shrub]

You forgot to add the 15 demerits that each such ticket will now have along with it...

Indeed, scurvy dogs such as myself are making the roads dangerous for widows and orphans by not having registration on our bikes, so it is both right and fair that those of us who thumb our noses at the noble and brave men and women of our cuntstabulary by not having a safety sticker should be forced off our loud and dangerous motorbicycles.

I am suitably chastened and will make my way to the Post Office whereupon I will purchase as much registration as I can, for the safety of the weak and vulnerable in our society is important to me, and in fact I shall do so on foot as my unregistered machine is too dangerous to ride.

Unless of course there's a boozer on the way, in which case I will spend my registration money on beer to quench the thirst that walking such a distance will no doubt cause.

[scumdog]

Indeed, scurvy dogs such as myself are making the roads dangerous for widows and orphans by not having registration on our bikes, so it is both right and fair that those of us who thumb our noses at the noble and brave men and women of our cuntstabulary by not having a safety sticker should be forced off our loud and dangerous motorbicycles.

I am suitably chastened and will make my way to the Post Office whereupon I will purchase as much registration as I can, for the safety of the weak and vulnerable in our society is important to me, and in fact I shall do so on foot as my unregistered machine is too dangerous to ride.

Unless of course there's a boozer on the way, in which case I will spend my registration money on beer to quench the thirst that walking such a distance will no doubt cause.

Hey, I didn't say you actually had to DO anything....

[Madness]

IT"S A RACKET

"That extra couple of hundred dollars you've been paying in bike rego each year is paying the wages of people who are designing new laws that, if passed could make it mandatory for you to ride dressed like a tennis ball. Are you going to stand up for your right to ride?"

I found the attached poster (Google) - is it from the U.K?

[mashman]

I ride a motorcycle. I drive a car. I ride a bicycle. I'm a pedestrian. I use the road in/on the vehicle of my choice at any given time. I can die using any form of transportation. I have the accident. Charge me once and then leave my pocket the fuck alone.