Comments on: Lift your game Bicycle NSW! http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/ Work is just something I do between bike rides Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:01:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jonathon http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/comment-page-1/#comment-1201 Jonathon Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:32:18 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/#comment-1201 <p>I hate to say it but it is true. The peak organisation for cyclists in the state most hostile to cyclists, has a stacked board that is so timid that it would surprise me if they got re-elected at this years AGM (even with their "advocacy" officer touting for proxies at the Netti Sale!). Having read a transcript of the CEO's interview on Channel 9 I am annoyed with his preformance given that we are about to become a branch office of BV. It looks like Bicycle NSW is getting out of advocacy and giving it to BUGs through the BUGS Council.</p> I hate to say it but it is true. The peak organisation for cyclists in the state most hostile to cyclists, has a stacked board that is so timid that it would surprise me if they got re-elected at this years AGM (even with their “advocacy” officer touting for proxies at the Netti Sale!). Having read a transcript of the CEO’s interview on Channel 9 I am annoyed with his preformance given that we are about to become a branch office of BV. It looks like Bicycle NSW is getting out of advocacy and giving it to BUGs through the BUGS Council.

]]> By: Treadly and Me http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/comment-page-1/#comment-1200 Treadly and Me Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:50:38 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/#comment-1200 <p>No offence intended towards eccles, it's just a tough line of argument to defend.</p> No offence intended towards eccles, it’s just a tough line of argument to defend.

]]> By: eccles http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/comment-page-1/#comment-1199 eccles Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:49:08 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/#comment-1199 <p>Ah, yeah, I didn't mean it as the be all and end all of arguments, but just as an immediate "shut up, that's why" kinda response to "but you don't pay any rego".</p> Ah, yeah, I didn’t mean it as the be all and end all of arguments, but just as an immediate “shut up, that’s why” kinda response to “but you don’t pay any rego”.

]]> By: Treadly and Me http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/comment-page-1/#comment-1198 Treadly and Me Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:59:27 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/#comment-1198 <p>Crowlie's example is important: tiresome though it is to repeat oneself over and over and over, we have to be well prepared to engage and defend the position of cyclists on the road. A bit hard to do when some tool hurtles past yelling "Get off the road!" but for the times when someone takes it up with you 'around the water cooler', I think the info sheets from <a href="http://www.cyclingpromotion.com.au/content/view/213/145/ " title="Bicycles belong on the road, registration free: Cycling Promotion Fund" rel="nofollow">CPF</a> and <a href="http://www.bv.com.au/bikes-and-riding/10532/ " title="Cyclists' right to use the road: Bicycle Victoria" rel="nofollow">BV</a> are excellent references.</p> <p>While I agree that eccles' argument is logical, it doesn't work because you can't say the same thing about owning two cars (or a car and motorbike): if you're driving one, you've still got to register the other. There are a raft of other stronger arguments in the material linked above.</p> <p>As for the NRCA, well it was only a matter of time…</p> Crowlie’s example is important: tiresome though it is to repeat oneself over and over and over, we have to be well prepared to engage and defend the position of cyclists on the road. A bit hard to do when some tool hurtles past yelling “Get off the road!” but for the times when someone takes it up with you ‘around the water cooler’, I think the info sheets from CPF and BV are excellent references.

While I agree that eccles’ argument is logical, it doesn’t work because you can’t say the same thing about owning two cars (or a car and motorbike): if you’re driving one, you’ve still got to register the other. There are a raft of other stronger arguments in the material linked above.

As for the NRCA, well it was only a matter of time…

]]> By: eccles http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/comment-page-1/#comment-1197 eccles Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:25:08 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/02/08/lift-your-game-bicycle-nsw/#comment-1197 <p>I pay a car rego. If i am on my bike, I am not driving my car. thus, my car rego for that trip applies to the bike.</p> I pay a car rego. If i am on my bike, I am not driving my car. thus, my car rego for that trip applies to the bike.

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