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Monday, 9 August 2010

Office workers, mums, dads, motorcycles and scooters
to converge on Parliament.

On that day, at 12 noon, the street in front of the NSW Parliament will be awash with motorcycle and scooter riders of all ages who will have gathered to show parliamentarians their disgust at the blatant cash-grab that has become the Compulsory Third Party (CTP) scheme under the Keneally government.

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NSW GOVERNMENT FAILS THE STATE’S MOTORCYCLISTS ONCE AGAIN
21 July 2010

With the arrival of new mobile speed cameras, and the RTA’s proposed new 4km/h tolerance limit for all speeding offences, it is time to take an objective look at the facts the speed-camera-revenue-addicted Keneally government is not telling us about motorcycles.

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MEDIA RELEASE

22 June 2010

The Motorcycle Council of NSW (MCC of NSW) has today described the planned increases in motorcycle CTP premiums from July 1st, as further evidence of the failure of Governments to recognise motorcycles as a unique and independent road user group.

Whilst the MCC of NSW understands that changes to the old CTP system were necessary, and even worked with the Motor Accidents Authority (MAA) on these changes, the MCC of NSW has not been provided with any evidence that those drivers or riders causing CTP claims, can justify such extreme increases in prices in some classifications.

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Solid result for motorcycle sales in 2009

Jan 11, 2010

Official figures released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) show that 115,981 motorcycles, scooters and all-terrain vehicles were sold last year – a decrease of 13.6 per cent (18,298 units) over 2008.

“Given the circumstances, this is a very solid result,” FCAI Chief Executive Andrew McKellar said.

“The market has come off a very high base over the previous year, so the industry has certainly stood up well to the economic challenges,” he said.

“In fact, this is the fourth highest annual sales result on record and was achieved in tough economic circumstances,” Mr McKellar said.

“Some brands actually increased sales and deserve congratulations for that,” he said.

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[22/10] Pyrmont Bridge Display

2005 Pyrmont Bridge Display

Motorcycle Awareness Week was kicked off with the Pyrmont Bridge Display on Saturday 22nd October 2005.

The Pyrmont Bridge Display day went extremely well and with plenty of general public walking over Pyrmont Bridge we had lots of people obtaining motorcycle awareness.

Riders were seen as just ordinary people, not something strange, several magazine photographers cruised quietly through and the MCC did two radio interviews from the Bridge.

Thank you to Oroadsports for organising the details and thank you to those clubs who attended and put on a display. A BIG thankyou also to all the volunteers from the Christian Motorcyclists Association who made setup and running of the day so smooth.

Clubs and corporates in attendances in alphabetical order included:
Ambassadors
Annandale Leichhardt Motorcycle Club Limited
Australia Post
Bikers Anon
Bikers Australia
BMWTC NSW
Christian Motorcyclists Association NSW Inc
Clubman Tourers MC Club
Dual Sport Motorcycle Riders Association (DSMRA) Parramatta
Ducati Owners Club
Dykes on Bikes
Girls Ride Out
Kings X Bikers
Liverpool HOG
Motorcycle Council of NSW
Oroadsports
PITS Social MC Club
Post Classic Racing Association
St Johns Ambulance
Ulysses
WIMA

We had an impressive display of bikes from Liverpool HOGS who had a major turnout of their club members as well as Australia Post who had a massive umbrella, brand new postie bikes, complete with posties and a huge poster featuring '8 ways to protect your postie' on display.

The prize-winning safety message displays were from Bikers Anon (best presented safety message), there was an excellent display from Ducati Owners Club on tyres (most impressive safety message) and the quirky interactive display from Dykes on Bikes (most interactive safety message). The DOB display involved sitting on a pink bicycle with your head inside the display boards to bring the images up close and personal and was a really innovative idea - definitely a winner! It made you laugh and take it seriously at the same time.

DOB Interactive Display

Special mentions go to: MotorCycle Accessories Supermarket (individual award vouchers & Rate & Win Survey voucher), Coles Myer (Rate & Win Survey vouchers) & Australia Post LPO Business Operations (Rate & Win 1.5L Bottle of Red Wine)