Disabled British biker not allowed to ride in NZ

Being a member and a supporter of the National Association of Bikers with Disabilities, I find the New Zealand attitude towards this rider and his machine disgusting. Have you tried getting a trike through Single Vehicle Approval? Believe me, if the inspectors at the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have passed it and it's been through more than one MOT since SVA, there can't be much wrong with it unless the welds are showing signs of stress fracture on a visible basis without using x-ray. Jobsworths, don't you just love em!

Posted: 21/02/2008 at 09:19

Seems that it's the bike thats the problem not the rider. Hardly discrimination. If you read the article it says nothing about the rider.

Posted: 21/02/2008 at 09:32

whats your ulterior motive putting that up as a first post?

you trying to drum up some hate against New Zealanders?

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Posted: 21/02/2008 at 10:17

mark hesketh wrote (see)

Being a member and a supporter of the National Association of Bikers with Disabilities, I find the New Zealand attitude towards this rider and his machine disgusting. Have you tried getting a trike through Single Vehicle Approval? Believe me, if the inspectors at the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have passed it and it's been through more than one MOT since SVA, there can't be much wrong with it unless the welds are showing signs of stress fracture on a visible basis without using x-ray. Jobsworths, don't you just love em!

So you have never actually seen or tested this particular vehicle and yet the NZ authorities who deemed it unsafe are jobsworths???

SVA and MOt tests are limited in their application, and its fairly easy to find a tame one that will let through shoddy work..just look at the number of shitty trikes and kit cars on the road...

If disabled people want fair treatment then they should expect to comply with the same standards of safety and construction as every other road user in a particular country.. 

Posted: 21/02/2008 at 10:40

yeha - so basically piss off you big fat poopy head!!!

Posted: 21/02/2008 at 10:44

Maybe if he goes over there to argue his case the authorities will spot structural defects in his wheelchair & take that off him too

Posted: 21/02/2008 at 13:09

yeah! lazy bastard!

how old and hasnt learned how to walk yet?!??!

Posted: 21/02/2008 at 13:10

Sounds weird to me. I thought usually you can ride vehicles in another country for a certain amount of time before it needed to be registered. So if that is the case it would not require SVA until that time is up. Mind you if he is intending on staying in the country for more than that period of time then it would make sense for the authorities to sort it out now. Depends coz the rules could be different in NZ.

Posted: 21/02/2008 at 13:53

Oh yeh and the point of SVA is to determine that the vehicle is safe in the absence of any documentation that could prove this. No such documents for trikes as they are usually made for the user. If SVA was required it would presumably have to be carried out in the country it was going to anyway. So in this case the NZ authorities may be arses but they're doing what they're meant to do.

Posted: 21/02/2008 at 13:55

Dear outraged from the NABD, please take your petty moaining to their forums where you may get a sympathetic ear.

Why are you not registered there? Why is this topic not on there forums at all (I've searched)? Are you a Magelica employee trying to stir up trouble for publication? Why have you no user details? Why have you kept your info private?

Posted: 21/02/2008 at 15:22

Clanktank wrote (see)

Dear outraged from the NABD, please take your petty moaining to their forums where you may get a sympathetic ear.

Why are you not registered there? Why is this topic not on there forums at all (I've searched)? Are you a Magelica employee trying to stir up trouble for publication? Why have you no user details? Why have you kept your info private?

these and and many other questions brought to you today from Magicalia Lube INC... "you bend over, we'll take care of the rest"

Posted: 21/02/2008 at 15:24

The poor old spazzer!

Posted: 22/02/2008 at 23:15

Lucy wrote (see)

Sounds weird to me. I thought usually you can ride vehicles in another country for a certain amount of time before it needed to be registered. So if that is the case it would not require SVA until that time is up. Mind you if he is intending on staying in the country for more than that period of time then it would make sense for the authorities to sort it out now. Depends coz the rules could be different in NZ.

I *think* this generally applies to production "type approved" vehicles. - i.e, if you have a standard vehicle, you can use it for a certain amount of time before it has to be registered in that country, and that's generally so as to make vehicle law enforcement (i.e. tracing the owner) easier. Wouldn't be surprised if non type-approved vehicles need a bit of special treatment. 

In all though, I have to agree with Gedge. For true equality, all riders should have to comply with the correct vehicle requirement regardless of their personal situation, and mis-representing the situation as persecution does come across rather snivelling..

Posted: 23/02/2008 at 00:58