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ACC ANNOUNCES CASH BACK
SCHEME FOR RIDERS
rom July 1, 2019 to June 39, 2021, ACC
and Ride Forever will be running a pilot
programme where eligible riders can receive
up to $200 cashback on their annual motorcycle
registration.
The cashback offer was developed in response
to feedback from motorcyclists during last year’s
‘Shape Your ACC’ levy consultation. It will be
trialled for two years and is open to riders who
have held a full New Zealand Class 6 licence
for five years or more and who have a current
motorcycle registration.
“The idea of the pilot program is to try and reach
out to riders who have so far been hard to reach
with the Ride Forever message”, explains Ride
Forever’s Dave Keilty.
“We can see by our numbers that at the lower
levels (younger riders and those on their Learner
and Restricted licences) we have great uptake in
Ride Forever coaching, but in those older riders
we aren’t getting the same penetration.”
In order to claim the cashback offer from ACC
– which will be deposited directly into your bank
account – riders need to take two Ride Forever
courses at Silver level or higher (and at least three
months apart), supply a photo of their current
motorcycle rego and then you can claim $100
on this year’s rego, and then another $100 in 12
months’ time.
If you’ve recently taken a Ride Forever course
there’s good news as well, as so long as it was
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taken after July 1st 2016 it can count as the first
course in your cashback claim.
The cashback scheme adds to existing incentives
including several discounts and reimbursements
on such things as insurance on top of the
substantial subsidy on the courses themselves
which ACC pays $249 per course while the rider
contributes up to $50.
However, the new scheme seems to neglect new
riders who haven’t yet attained their full licence
but have undertaken Ride Forever training. There
is reason for this – funding.
“We’re not going to please everyone with the pilot
program, Keilty continued. It not about rewarding
riders for doing Ride Forever courses, it’s all in the
name of trying to improve the uptake particularly
for those more at risk riders. Uptake is crucial to
the program being implemented as a long term
solution and being expanded to include more
riders”, Keilty told Kiwi Rider.
“The Ride Forever scheme was itself a pilot
program initially launched in 2012”, he said.
“Initially it was set out with the goal of providing
1000 courses a year to motorcyclists over three
years, and Ride Forever has provided over 25,000
courses to date.”
The uptake is what cemented Ride Forever as
one of the uses of the ACC Levy on motorcycle
registrations. Riders can register for coaching, and
check details of the cashback scheme at
www.rideforever.co.nz/cashback.
NZ MOTORCYCLE SHOW POSTPONED
e-book that accommodation and babysitter,
because the annual New Zealand
Motorcycle Show which was set to take over
Auckland’s ASB Showgrounds this September has
been postponed. supporters – and instead of running a smaller
show – the NZ Motorcycle Show would instead be
rescheduled for a new slot in 2020.
The announcement of the show’s postponement
came via a post on its Facebook page where it
was explained that due to the September dates
no longer suiting many of the show’s main Kiwi Rider has reached out to the New Zealand
Motorcycle Show for further comment but has yet
to receive a response at the time of writing.
Precisely when the show will return has yet to be
made clear.
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