Tolls and sore bums after long days in the saddle.

zzzak · Post by **zzzak** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:37 pm

So I rode throught the non-pay lane on the Hills M2 because I couldn't be bothered stopping after putting 400k's on the odometer that day and a week or so later I got a nice note in the mail offering me the option of paying the toll plus $10 fee,taking it to court or,and this is the good bit,providing details of the possibly faulty e-tag.

So I called up my e-tag provider and asked if I could add my bikes rego # to the existing tag and they,well it was a she and she was very nice, said "No problemo".

In future I am going to ride through the express lanes of our toll roads with not quite gay abandon and due to my faulty tag they'll have to drain my account via a photo of the rego plate.

A small victory but an important one.

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:11 pm

..or move to somewhere else in Oz
like Vic or SA
where no tolls apply to bikes

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:39 pm

Yeah its all good in theory, I got an M7 roam toll and so far all bar one of the trips on the bike I still have recieved letters from the M4 & M2 tolls

zzzak · Post by **zzzak** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:23 pm

Does your pass have your bikes rego number attached?

According to the info that I responded to the non registration of a faulty device is fine if you have a pass and I have put my bikes rego on my car pass so I no longer need to stop.

All legal and part of the machine.

zzzak · Post by **zzzak** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:36 pm

Smitty wrote:..or move to somewhere else in Oz
like Vic or SA
where no tolls apply to bikes

It would take more than you could imagine to get me back to Adelaide or Melbourne,nice though they were at the time though which was around 1974.

Sydney is it mate,it's where you all really want to be.

Duane · Post by **Duane** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:37 pm

zzzak wrote:Sydney is it mate,it's where you all really want to be.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

SenNey · Post by **SenNey** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:53 am

So what you do is get you and 20 of your mates to go there with 5c pieces in hand.
Get off your bikes take of helmet and gloves etc and count your pennies out.

Burky · Post by **Burky** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:41 am

SenNey Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:53 am Post subject:

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So what you do is get you and 20 of your mates to go there with 5c pieces in hand.
Get off your bikes take of helmet and gloves etc and count your pennies out.

Don't forget to turn your bike off and take the key out, from habit. Then the key does go in last after you but the helmet and gloves on, but it is hard to put the key in with gloves on and it falls to the ground. Off the bike and try again

I have the rego details with the e-tag provider and don't carry the tag with me but have not been charged for any trips with the the tag on any of my tag accounts

Not that i am complaining

Lainie · Post by **Lainie** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:56 am

Smitty wrote:..where no tolls apply to bikes

Yet

Whitey · Post by **Whitey** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:23 am

SenNey wrote:So what you do is get you and 20 of your mates to go there with 5c pieces in hand.
Get off your bikes take of helmet and gloves etc and count your pennies out.

I recall hearing about pushbike riders who organised such a protest. They all rode up to the toll booths and paid cash (slowly), then proceeded along the M2 hogging all lanes. They got some media coverage by informing the TV stations in advance. Pity us motorcyclists can't be so organised.

balanse · Post by **balanse** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:23 am

Sydney is it mate,it's where you all really want to be.

Yep I was just thinking this the other day when reading the CTP thread.

Please can I get ripped for CTP, have yearly rego inspections, pay unequal tolls to go anywhere, have double demerit weekends and even more exxy speed taxes and not be able to park easily in the city.

When can I move back? Lakemba sounds like a fun suburb to raise a family.

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:26 am

you deserve a bitchslap to the head for that, i stay the hell away from the area, merely because its near king georges road & roberts road, which are both f*ked up, let alone for any of the other bullshit that has been rumored to happen around there from timeto time.

Then again my missus works near (but not in) there, i've heard a few corker stories about it all too, its funny though, till it happens where you live though.

balanse · Post by **balanse** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:42 am

you deserve a bitchslap to the head for that

Ohh I forgot to mention it's the gay capital of Australia.

Burky · Post by **Burky** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:07 pm

Try Bankstown Hospital late on a Thurs-sunday night.

One night (i think it was a Friday) 2 gunshot victims, a Michette to the head, a couple of hit and runs, various assaults and an older male took on two big Kiwi's in a bar fight. It ended with a broken bottle inthe older mans hand and a lot of operation theatre time

It can be worse than US tv

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:17 pm

balanse wrote:
you deserve a bitchslap to the head for that
Ohh I forgot to mention it's the gay capital of Australia.

...and that's exactly why you want to move here, garn admit it.

...and we don't get butt raped by the cops for doing 5k's over the speed limit, we have our 10%