Trucks in bike spaces

[RantyDave]

Bastards.

"Super Freight" in Wellington seem to think it's OK to park their trucks across motorbike spaces. Nobody give them any business whatsoever. Bastards.

Dave

[ManDownUnder]

A big bike in front, a big bike behind, and a note on the windscreen ought to help.

Lock the steering of course.

OR - pop around and use their yards for parking. Sounds fair.

Get them towed

Let the air out of a tyre. Front right works best (driver spots it straight away). Let the air out of the spare(s) too

Note on the windscreen saying "did you see "SPEED"? - be careful not to drop below 80 kph"

Remove the number plates

Ring the company and complain.

Find out their fax number, print this pic onto a couple of pages with an appropriate message, tape them together and fax it to them overnight - a couple of hundred messages will await them in the morning.

Don't get mad - get creative...
MDU

[Coyote]

Was it just dropping something off or was it parked there for a while?

[Swoop]

Was it just dropping something off or was it parked there for a while?
Does it matter? Like parking in a disabled space to "drop something off" - still not allowed!

[bugjuice]

get it towed.. towies are always lookin for pickup cash..
do you want me to call? I'll get one of the auckland lot to come pick it up. They're keen as a bean to pick up illegally parked vehicles..

[Karma]

Does it matter? Like parking in a disabled space to "drop something off" - still not allowed!


Oh man... don't get me started on Disabled spaces!!


If they're outside somebodys house or workplace then fine. But the number of times I've seen someone park in a disabled space outside Foodtown or something and then walk up and down the isles in the supermarket!

If they're fit enough to walk around the supermarket then they can park with the rest of us! :bash:

[Str8 Jacket]

Unfortunately this happens often in Wellington and its always couriers/freight companies or something similar. I start work at 7am and at that time most of the bike parks are filled with them. Surely we can do something about these pricks, they have their own parks.... there called loading zones, Joe Public would be towed if parked there so maybe we should start taking action and doing the same thing.

[sAsLEX]

If they're fit enough to walk around the supermarket then they can park with the rest of us! :bash:

granma always comes with us on the boxing day sales, get to park right by the door and she enjoys the day out!

[Lias]

4(or more if applicabale) slashed tyres works well every time.

Cost them a mint on a truck too.

[ManDownUnder]

Unfortunately this happens often in Wellington and its always couriers/freight companies or something similar. I start work at 7am and at that time most of the bike parks are filled with them. Surely we can do something about these pricks, they have their own parks.... there called loading zones, Joe Public would be towed if parked there so maybe we should start taking action and doing the same thing.

Ring the towies... tell them of the offenders and where to get them.

They'd make a fortune from it...

[Coyote]

4(or more if applicabale) slashed tyres works well every time.

Cost them a mint on a truck too.
Sure it makes them learn their lesson for the next time but the truck ends up being immobilised and can't bloody move out of your park. Getting it towed would be a better option

Also they’ll probably find out who did it and send you the bill for the tyres :pinch:

[stunz]

Unfortunately this happens often in Wellington and its always couriers/freight companies or something similar. I start work at 7am and at that time most of the bike parks are filled with them. Surely we can do something about these pricks, they have their own parks.... there called loading zones, Joe Public would be towed if parked there so maybe we should start taking action and doing the same thing.I used to take the view that if I parked close as close as I could to the front bumper, they wouldnt be able to get out. Then I realised I was pissing in the wind, and recalled what wise ol fullah Confuscious once say on top of cold windy mountain...:not:

"he who park bike in front of car to teach car-driver lesson end up with bike in bits on ground and car driver laugh at silly plonker who park bike in front of car..."

[Lias]

Sure it makes them learn their lesson for the next time but the truck ends up being immobilised and can't bloody move out of your park. Getting it towed would be a better option

Also they’ll probably find out who did it and send you the bill for the tyres :pinch:

I'd like to see them try..
I've done it several times to fuckwits who insisted in parking in inapprorpriate places/residents only parking areas in welly and generally being wanks. Worst suburbs for it were Brooklyn and Khandalllah. Never really had problems like that when I lived in the hutt.

[ManDownUnder]

Anyone here in the plastic injection business?

I have an idea...

[RantyDave]

Ring the company and complain.
Did that. I rang up and explained what happened. Guy on the end of the phone got a piece of paper and wrote down the number plate then asked for the message for the driver.

"Don't do it".

I had started to become restrained by then.

Dave

[Waylander]

Went to the movies the other night and there is a bike park in town near the theatres. I park there and no one around lots of empty car places. Movies over and I walk out and I see bikers rolling up for a later showing and having to park elsewhere cause some fuck up cager has parked thier car in the bike spot. Even attempted to move my bike so he would have more room. Dropped it in the process.(one of the few times I had locked the steering)

Cager now has to spend money on a new windshield, two wing mirrors, panel work and a new paint job.

[Skyryder]

Went to the movies the other night and there is a bike park in town near the theatres. I park there and no one around lots of empty car places. Movies over and I walk out and I see bikers rolling up for a later showing and having to park elsewhere cause some fuck up cager has parked thier car in the bike spot. Even attempted to move my bike so he would have more room. Dropped it in the process.(one of the few times I had locked the steering)

Cager now has to spend money on a new windshield, two wing mirrors, panel work and a new paint job.

What about the flamethrower.

Skyryder

[sunhuntin]

only seen it happen once here in wangas in the ave, and more than once at the mall.

the ave bike parks are about the same size as a regular car parks, but are generally by the gardens, with a motorbike sign. they are roughly one per block, which means not very many when its a nice day.
the mall parks, there are two, and they are both about 3 car parks long. one covered and the other underground. the top one is usually blocked off by taxis, and the underground one sometimes has a car squished on the end, but that one is rarely used by bikes.

but in saying that, im not above parking in car parks if there is no other option, and like many of you i prefer to be as close to my bike as possible.

[Waylander]

What about the flamethrower.

Skyryder
If I had one.....

[Xtat1k]

slash a tyre yeah the front sounds good, or put a small stone under the air cap of each tyre and tighted it, it will cause the tyres to slowly deflate and he will be far away and probably be screwed where he has to stop, cost him a bit of money to hahaha.:shake:

[Beemer]

I got blocked in a motorcycle park in Hunter Street once - bloody big truck parked within inches of my front tyre and as my bike was in the middle of a row of bikes, I was stuck until a big burly guy came along and helped me lift the rear tyre up onto the footpath so I could get out! The footpath there was quite high (about a foot) and there was no way I could get it out without help.

I made a guy move off a bike park in Palmerston North recently. He was just sitting there, half in and half out of the space, so I pulled up behind him and tooted. He just sat there, so I opened my visor and said "it's a bike park, piss off" and he did! I was amazed, and a bit wary of leaving my bike there in case he came back and did something to it, but I got the result I wanted!

Take the photos in to the council and make a complaint - who knows, with photographic evidence, they may be able to issue a ticket. Worth a try.