Wellington Bike Ladies!

[maxworldbiker]

...Or even those from a little further away...

If you're interested in helping support the Herceptin Riders on the final day of our protest, take an extended lunch break, jump on your bikes and come on down to Parliament at midday on Wednesday 12th March 2008. We'll be there for a couple of hours, and some MPs are coming out to speak to us and we'll be handing over as many of our completed petition forms as we can get filled out (you can help with that too, if you like! The forms can be downloaded from the website).

Lets make the numbers count.

It would be just so great to see as many of you down there as can possibly make it. Don't forget to dress up your bike for the occasion - think pink! - and bring a piece of absorbent something-or-other (nothing too risque, of course, she warned, suddenly having scary visions of the flagstones littered with black-spotted sanitary surfboards...) to slap underneath it when you park up.

Just so we don't have nastly little oil leaks all over those lovely parliamentary paving slabs...

[Number One]

jump on your bikes and come on down to Parliament at midday on Wednesday 12th March 2006.

Think we missed the boat....

[Str8 Jacket]

As a cancer survivor myself (not breast though...) I would love to be there in support but cant as 1. im working at the other end of town and 2. I dont have a bike at the moment. Though I reckon we should be encouraging both men and women to come along though. More people means louder voice and all that...

[maxworldbiker]

Aha, Number One! Well spotted YOU!!! I've been in and corrected it. Worra wolly!!! Shows ya where my head is. Its gonna be even further off my shoulders soon, at the rate this whole thing is happening.

And I totally agree about the guy presence thing. What I've been hoping for!

Bring it on!!!

[Mom]

...Or even those from a little further away...

The forms can be downloaded from the website).

Hi, I live a long way away from your protest, wish I could join you. Breast cancer is a subject very close to my heart. What is the web address? I have never seen a petition form.

[maxworldbiker]

Hi, I live a long way away from your protest, wish I could join you. Breast cancer is a subject very close to my heart. What is the web address? I have never seen a petition form.

Site is www.herceptinriders.co.nz and the petitions are on the downloads page.

[Nasty]

Gals and guys it would be great to see as many as possible there for the end of this huge ride ... I am going to be there as am sponsored by Bike Rider magazine (YAY) ... and would love to be joined by the motley crue you are!!!!

[maxworldbiker]

Parliament have now given official written permission for us to park within the grounds (God, the protocols!!!), including permission for people to eat their lunch on the hallowed turf. They will shoot ya if ya leave litter lying around. Whoops! Sorry, I mean they will bill ME for the clean up so its ME that will shoot ya, and the council are reserving parking in Molesworth Street.
Damore damerrier...

[Fatjim]

If any of you biker ladies are a little woried about breast cancer I'll be more than happy to help put your mind at ease.

[James Deuce]

At least you guys get screening. Way more blokes die of prostate cancer than women die of breast cancer.

[maxworldbiker]

At least you guys get screening. Way more blokes die of prostate cancer than women die of breast cancer.

Yes, in that respect we're very lucky, and I fully take your point. Its important to stand up for Herceptin though, and be counted as caring about that too, even if your own beef is prostate cancer, because the whole matter of NZ's third-world stance on access to cancer drugs (second-worst country in the so-called civilized world only to Poland!) if we get a victory on Herceptin it's the first step to getting all cancer drugs funded. My mum died two years ago from a variety of cancers. It was horrible, unfair, and the situation in this country has just bloody well GOT to change.

I've said it before, though, you have to eat an elephant one bite at a time. It will be a lot harder for these misguided, budgetary-challenged fools to deny funding for other cancer drugs if they've already said yes to one, and as Herceptin has been a really hot political potato for a while now, and is currently being wrestled with in court. keeping the momentum on it as the focus makes more sense than switching that focus to something else that doesn't already have a high "nuisance" profile for the government to keep having to deal with in the public arena. Aside from being very close to my heart for a number of reasons (not all of which I wish to share), making Herceptin the focus of this protest has got to make it more pressurizing for the government to pull funding from other less emotive or "necessary" budgets and plough it into health - specifically Herceptin, and other cancer drugs.

I'm trying to do more here than just get Herceptin funded. But I have to be very careful how I go about it. Political challenge and interference has to be handled very delicately, there are a nightmare number of protocols attached to it, and I'm learning as I go. I'm nobody special, just someone who wants to make a change to the current senseless cancer funding structure, but its a really big challenge, so all support will be welcomed, whichever way it comes.

[Number One]

If any of you biker ladies are a little woried about breast cancer I'll be more than happy to help put your mind at ease.

Errrm....If your hands are anything like those in your avatar shudder

At least you guys get screening. Way more blokes die of prostate cancer than women die of breast cancer.

If any of you biker men are a little woried about prostrate cancer I'll be more than happy to help put your mind at ease FOR FREE. Now take off yer pants bend over and cough

OH and to be ON TOPIC - I will bring my scoot along :-) I'll just go from one end of parliament grounds to the other ;-)

[bert_is_evil]

Where will we be assembling? or will it be too obvious to miss

[Nasty]

At Parliament itself .... outside the gates next to the bus stop a number of carparks will be reserved for the use of the ride supporters.

[maxworldbiker]

[Errrm....If your hands are anything like those in your avatar shudder]

Oh, right! FATJIM's hands!!! THAT's what you meant??? I was gonna say, settle down folks, its only an AK47!!!