Motorcycle Rant (beware)
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Very few non bikers realise how heavy motorbikes are...........(specially females)
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Your no allowed to park motorbikes in car parking space over here....(you get a £40 parking ticket if you do)
Is this in paid car parks? That's fair enough I suppose, over here every paid car park I can think of has free bike parking attached to it too. In non-paid car parks, I tend to stick it somewhere convenient, I only really put it in a car space if there's really nowhere else to put it, or if I'm only going to be a few minutes. In my opinion a 'free' car park space is fair game for any vehicle including bikes, it's just that I can park close to the shop if I bang it on a convenient bit of pavement
At Lakeside where I work, bikes just sort of get put hither and thither. Bike racks, under random bits of cover, all over the place! Very rare to see them in car spaces, it's easier for everyone if we just poke them somewhere convenient.
This is in non paided parking areas (disc parking zones)......we don't have any paid parking areas over here yet!!!
Is this in paid car parks? That's fair enough I suppose, over here every paid car park I can think of has free bike parking attached to it too. In non-paid car parks, I tend to stick it somewhere convenient, I only really put it in a car space if there's really nowhere else to put it, or if I'm only going to be a few minutes. In my opinion a 'free' car park space is fair game for any vehicle including bikes, it's just that I can park close to the shop if I bang it on a convenient bit of pavement
At Lakeside where I work, bikes just sort of get put hither and thither. Bike racks, under random bits of cover, all over the place! Very rare to see them in car spaces, it's easier for everyone if we just poke them somewhere convenient.
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the other good one is people think its ok to sit on them
was up the ace a couple of months ago and when i returned to the trike there was peeps sitting on it taking pics of each other
neadless to say i cant repete what i told them to do
I had this happen to me...Some teenage girls taken pictures of each other sitting on my R1
That would really **** me off. When I go out for a smoke or lunch at work, I smoke by where my bike is, and obviously because I'm at work no one can tell I ride a bike because I'm not in my kit, I saw some woman go to put her toddler on my bike seat and I was just about to have a proper wobbler at her when someone she was with said 'don't do that, it might have an alarm' (which it does)... part of me was sort of hoping she'd put the sprog on it and the alarm would go off and scare the arse off them all
That seems a bit unfair! In fairness though we do get away with murder in general with parking, you see bikes plonked all over the place and people never seem to mind really. At work I park my bike up against a wall outside one of the exits or lock it to the pushbike racks, no one's ever said anything, including security who've seen me pull up plenty of times.
lakeside is horrible for bikes in the car parking areas... of while i'll never park again.
most of them seem to park on the pavement near cycle racks by the main entrances which seems fair as there's often not "that" many there.
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lol Mohinder...
would sticky fingers and other stuff on your tank be worth scaring them?
most of them seem to park on the pavement near cycle racks by the main entrances which seems fair as there's often not "that" many there.
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lol Mohinder...
would sticky fingers and other stuff on your tank be worth scaring them?
There's a big difference between parking on the road and parking on a path obstructing someones property. I don't think the rider in the GD thread had two brain cells to rub together and I doubt he'd notice if the thing was upside down when he returned.
Never seen anyone try to move a bike that's not theirs on the road though and the thought had never even crossed my mind.
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I parked in the multistorey once, some scumbag unbolted my fuel tank trying to disarm my alarm! Never again, it goes in plain sight by the entrance now.
Last week while I was at work they built a bike shed around my bike
Someone I work with told me, I went out to see if they wanted me to move it, they'd just put the whole shed thing up around it, unbolted all the bike racking, the bit my bike was bolted to was put neatly next to it. They'd wiggled it hoping the alarm would text me so I'd come out, but I didn't come, so they just got on with it.
That would really **** me off. When I go out for a smoke or lunch at work, I smoke by where my bike is, and obviously because I'm at work no one can tell I ride a bike because I'm not in my kit, I saw some woman go to put her toddler on my bike seat and I was just about to have a proper wobbler at her when someone she was with said 'don't do that, it might have an alarm' (which it does)... part of me was sort of hoping she'd put the sprog on it and the alarm would go off and scare the arse off them all
part of me was sort of hoping she'd put the sprog on it and the alarm would go off and scare the arse off them all
very true, it was a bad example but just all the "move it" posts just reminded me of what has happened
@Mohinder
Ah i thought i remembered reading that somewhere, didn't realise it was you.
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This is something I had always wondered about biking, how you feel when you park your bike in a busy area and leave it locked but not chained to anything. I know I would worry a lot about it (I don't drive but having had a fairly expensive bicycle stolen a few times and being pulled off my bike before I know how some people can take the ability to leave a bike outside for a bit for granted, and I never leave my bike alone in my town without it being locked, or let my friends ride it). And chavs sitting on it taking pictures, I would just hope it was a bunch of young lads posing so I could tell them to **** off or wait for the alarm to scare the **** out of them.
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I used to worry, not so much now. I do get a bit annoyed when I come out from work and my alarm squawks to let me know it's gone off while I've been away though.
It REALLY grinds my gears when people **** about with the switchgear. Like really really badly. I leave my lights on all the time, daylight, dark, whenever (bikes made since the year after my bike have no light switch, they're always on regardless) and occasionally people have played with the switches and turned them off, turned my indicators or hazards on, fiddled with the choke... I of course don't notice straight away because I never touch the light switch. Makes me worry that one day it'll happen and I'll ride off without my lights on
IT'S MINE, LEAVE IT ALONE!
I had someone move my bike out side work once. Came out and tried to remove the disk lock only to find it was jammed rather hard on the disk(where there is a slight raised area). Someone had obviously tried to move it backwards for what ever reason, and moved it with some force, pushed the lock against the fork and slipped the lock forward to jam it. Too about 10 minutes to actually loosen the lock to be able to remove it, then I went up stairs in work to see the CCTV only to realise our cameras didn't quite cover it. Really annoyed me though that someone couldn't be bothered to come in to my work and ask me to move it as only staff who work on the block where my work is can park there.
I seen people bounce a car around in a parking place a few times
Same here, I don't know much about bikes but I know enough not to touch someone else's!I didnt realise people did this, how ridiculoushow would you like it if you came out of sainsburys and theres someone trying to push your car about.