Motorcycle Action Group

May 1st 2010, saw the rejuvenation of our ACC protest action with a “Points of the Compass Protest” ride.  Groups of riders entered Auckland City from the North, South, East and Western motorways and gathered at the Auckland Museum for a rally.  MAG-NZ combined this ride with a fundraiser for Rape Crisis and raised $290 for them on the day.

A continuation of our message was the object of the day, and was well received by the bikers who attended.

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Media Statement: Motorcycles ACC Nick Smith
Hon Dr Nick Smith
Minister for ACC

12 August 2010



Media Statement

Motorcyclists & ACC look to Victoria to improve motorcycle safety New Zealand needs to follow the lead of Victoria, Australia where the serious injury rate for registered motorcyclists has fallen 20% since a safety levy was introduced eight years ago, ACC Minister Nick Smith says.

November 30th 2009

On the evening of 30th November 2009 over 100 angry bikers attended a public meeting held at the Royal Akorana Yacht Club in the Auckland electorate of Tamaki. After preliminary introductions and a scripted question and answer time the meeting was turned over to the public for questions. Though being the consummate politician as always, Nick Smith showed signs of being rattled and unprepared to answer some questions from the floor. Particularly amusing was the question that was met twice with closed lips, and despite the MC for the night attempting to diffuse the situation with a bit of housekeeping, when really pressed for a response the best he could come up with was that the numbers that had been used to construct the question were wrong. The meeting erupted with a hearty roar when the biker asking the question pointed out that he had only used the same figures that Dr Smith had been using to justify these outrageous levy increases in the first place.

Sunday November 22nd 2009

Auckland turned on a miserable wet Sunday morning for our park in protest, but that did not stop in excess of 300 bikers turning out to have breakfast at Mission Bay.  An early start saw the bikers take up almost every available car park on the waterfront at Mission Bay in Auckland.  One bike per park to demonstrate what the effect of bikes being taxed off the road by unfair ACC Levies.  After enjoying breakfast they gathered to listen to some speeches.  Prime News and Radio NZ covered this event.

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December 19^th 2009

Saw us holding the hopefully annual Auckland ACC Christmas Card Event, though it may change its name a little.  Early morning saw over 100 bikers roll into the Viaduct car park on the Auckland waterfront and park one bike to a park.  We all paid to park and displayed our tickets and went off to have a leisurely breakfast.  The riders then assembled for a very noisy and extremely good fun trip up Queen Street to the Auckland Domain for a rally and to collect our presents to deliver to MP’s around the country.  As a nice touch we left our paid parking tickets in the machines that issue the tickets so others could take advantage of our paid time.

TVNZ gave us some awesome coverage!

Bikers Play Santa to Politicians - Video

Bikers Play Santa to Politicians- Article