Bikers getting pulled over at Battle Hill & Featherston (15 February)

[SixPackBack]

Did anyone have the mental fortitude to question the appalling state of our roads and safety barriers etc?

[Ocean1]

Did anyone have the mental fortitude to question the appalling state of our roads and safety barriers etc?

Exactly who's questionnaire is this, dude?

There'll be no check-boxes useful for attributing blame for anything to anyone but the target group.

Now bend over.

[Madness]

With the inflated ACC levies we all pay each year, it's about time we started to see the odd free sausage.

Seriously though, Innit a good thing that ACC have gone to the effort to make contact with us, a group within society that's over-indexed in road carnage?. They even went to the trouble to do it on a Sunday, on roads that are heavily frequented by us, the target group. Heaven forbid, they might actually achieve some prevention out of it, if not just some better understanding.

Then again, we might all be fucked.

[unrealone]

With the inflated ACC levies we all pay each year, it's about time we started to see the odd free sausage.

Seriously though. Innit a good thing that ACC have gone to the effort to make contact with a group within society that is over-indexed in road injuries & fatalaties. They even went to the trouble to do it on a Sunday, on roads that are heavily frequented by the target group. Heaven forbid, they might actually achieve some prevention out of it, if not just some better understanding.

Then again, we might all be fucked.

Heh.. I asked the ACC lady I was talking to if I could lean on her car and she said: "Sure thing, you've probably paid for part of it at some point". I smiled after that - sarcastically...

[slimjim]

yes, wife and i also got asked to stop while heading towards Birchville... said what' the f-ck..! Acc..na f-ck off..ask the police what fcking right you got to stop motorcyclist for a questionary.. nope fired up bike a rode off..pricks and we wonder where our taxes are going

[sunhuntin]

this could all bite us on the ass. i remember acc sent me a questionaire last year some time [theres a thread on here somewhere] i refused to answer it cos i knew damn well that my solutions would be ignored. [it was bad/dangerous intersections and what could be done to lessen the danger etc]

wonder how much of our levies went to pay for this??

[roogazza]

I feel so ripped off! I went over the hill real early (like 7.46.5am) and was heading back through Featherston to find about 20 riders coming from Wgtn direction stopped by about 8 Police vehicles. They were all from the Triumph Rally. Good stuff I though, book the lot of em, &%^$#ing Triumph owner/losers. They deserve to be pulled.

Now I learn it was a quiz with a sausage sizzle and chockies. I WANT MY SAUSAGE!

Man it was cold that early leaving home. I thought we were still in summer?

Chilly, but great wasn't it MD ? I got pulled in on Piecock by two "fatherchristmas types" (fat with grey beards) going home.
Thought I was in for it when one walked round the rear of the bike , rubbed his hand knowingly over the rear tyre and said "that racing rubber" ? I said, yeah sticky stuff that wears out in 5 minutes ! ...... got my choccy and mag and was gone. G.

ps no problem being pulled or answering surveys, just hate tickets.

[cliffy]

Reading this thread i am surprised at the resentment felt to being pulled overby one or two.I feel that while understable,this attitude of "fight the man!!" has to be in part tempered with the understanding that while you(and i) often feel that the desicions made by those supposedly "in the know" ( police,roading,acc,etc) are often ill informed at best if we are not prepared to supply them with the "correct information" on which to base the desicions they are required to make when will the desicions be the right ones? and so perhaps a degree of fault must lie withourseves. So while ,yes the police were pulling over our section of the road users again i was talking with one of the people involved afterwards and was told that there were no tickets issued in feathertson. anyway i had a positive experience so me and my kiwirider magazine are off are of to the big white comfy seat.

[Usarka]

No other organisation would be able to do a marketing campaign by using the police to stop the target market on public roads.

Every other company in NZ does marketing to some degree including getting feedback from customers & stakeholders, and they manage ok without resorting to police state tactics.

ACC kiss my arse.

[Flossi]

Usarka, I take offence to that. I don't want to kiss your ass

And it wasn't just ACC there, it was also local Road Safety Coordinators, out doing their job and endeavoring to keep our roads safer. (I was one of the 'ladies in orange hi-viz vests' ... but I didn't give any lectures ... and I'm not from ACC )

[Max Preload]

ACC kiss my arse.

Usarka, I take offence to that. I don't want to kiss your ass ...

I'm not from ACC )

Given that, what was the point of that post?

What does a Road Safety Co-ordinator do, exactly, in order to co-ordinate road safety?

[Ixion]

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And it wasn't just ACC there, it was also local Road Safety Coordinators, out doing their job and endeavoring to keep our roads safer. (I was one of the 'ladies in orange hi-viz vests' ... but I didn't give any lectures ... and I'm not from ACC )

Me too. Woz a Road Safety Coordinator , 'n can you do summit about bitumen blleding. thaz a lot more important road safety problem.


(OT. Can raod be added to the KB lexicon ?. Izza good werd)

[James Deuce]

Reading this thread i am surprised at the resentment felt to being pulled overby one or two.I feel that while understable,this attitude of "fight the man!!" has to be in part tempered with the understanding that while you(and i) often feel that the desicions made by those supposedly "in the know" ( police,roading,acc,etc) are often ill informed at best if we are not prepared to supply them with the "correct information" on which to base the desicions they are required to make when will the desicions be the right ones? and so perhaps a degree of fault must lie withourseves. So while ,yes the police were pulling over our section of the road users again i was talking with one of the people involved afterwards and was told that there were no tickets issued in feathertson. anyway i had a positive experience so me and my kiwirider magazine are off are of to the big white comfy seat.

You have to be smoking something if you think any of the information collected will be interpreted and presented in anything other than negative terms in regard to motorcycling.

Question 6 in particular is an obvious stitch up.

[Ixion]

Q 6. "Worst type of behaviour you have seen motorcyclists doing ?"

Answer has to be "trolling for chocolate " I reckon. You know who you are.

[Ixion]

Seriously, but, the problem with sumfink like Q6 is that it will attract all the holier-than-thou double ended dildos who will have a double ended orgasm writing down all the naughty things they reckon (other) bikers do. Which ACC will then use is a "even motorcyclists agree that xxx behaviour should be stamped out". Even though xxx behaviour may not be a big deal to any save the aforesaid DEDs. (DED . A twuntish equivalent to the BAB)