Parking -How close is to close?

[Omega1]

Hi Everyone,

Just something I have noticed and would appreciate everyones thoughts on.I have brought my bike to work today parked it at the bike stand outside work.I went out at lunch and I have a bike parked next to me on the left and a scooter on the right, now this bike park is on a busy part of lambton quay in wellington and the scooter has parked so close to mine that if I stand my bike up it will definitely hit the scooter, now I'm pretty pissed about it as my mates bike was damaged recently same scenerio,whats the ettiquette on this? do people care how close people park next to their bikes?

Sorry for the rant, but wheres the common sense?

Cheers
N

[James Deuce]

There is no such thing as common sense or courtesy. Always rely on people to do the stupid thing and you will never be let down.

It's a scooter: lift it up onto the footpath.

[Jackrat]

Yeah,It's just a common sence thing,But we all know how that works aye. :doh:

[DeanOh]

LOl N. You must realise by now that those little feckers on the Mopeds cant park for shite. they usually take enough room for 2 bikes or park so close that you cant get out.
Ive had to pick the munters up and move it so I can get in, or move out, more than once.
One day Im gonna drag one of the little feckers into the middle of lambton quay and watch it get run over by a bus. :bash:

[Motoracer]

Some of my mates, when @ uni used to lift the scooters parked on the bike parking area and leave it nicely in the bush somewhere. They then used to park their bikes in that parking spot. :lol:

[shandawg]

Yeah some prick at uni dropped his bike onto mine and put the bar end through my tail fairing.

Sometimes bikers are as much pricks as car drivers - no note, no nothing :angry2:

[Ms Piggy]

The trouble with scooters is that they take up so much room, they seem really wide. We only have 1 parking spot at my Uni now and if ya don't get in early it's all filled up with fat little scooters. I reckon just pick up & move it, another guy offered to help me do that one day at Uni. You could also put a note on their scooter they are probabaly ignorant when it comes to giving other bikes room.

Annoying aye! Oh and btw - that was by no means a rant, you should see some of the rants round here! :niceone:

[mangell6]

Be considerate and take up two spaces by parking really diagonally. This will give you heaps of room. The other option is to stay later and wait until the prat arrives and give them a good slapping!!

[750Y]

it's no major, don't be too harsh on them, they're just trying to get a park like You.
they may have failed to register the fact that your bike needs to be stood up before wheeling it out unlike theirs which is probably sitting on a centre stand.
Just carefully move it and if You feel sufficiently inconvenienced then write a note and leave it for them, but don't do anything malicious with their bike. it may only be a scooter to you but it could be someone's pride & joy.

[Big Dog]

Be considerate and take up two spaces by parking really diagonally. This will give you heaps of room. The other option is to stay later and wait until the prat arrives and give them a good slapping!!
Which only helps if you are bigger than them AND have the time to waste.

[Big Dog]

they may have failed to register the fact that your bike needs to be stood up before wheeling it out unlike theirs which is probably sitting on a centre stand.
This is why when parking where there are likely to be alot of other bikes (ie bikeparks) I park on the centre stand or I park on a diagonal so that when I stand it up I am leaning into a space instead of another bike. It also helps to park with your right side up next to another bike or the end or park (just don't crowd some of the above listeners) this way there will be plenty of room when you come back, if not you will be able to stand it up to create some room. unless of course you leave to much room and some cheeky monkey parks a narrow bike in your legspace.

When someone inconveniences me like that I like to let them no without being mean or spiteful about it. Knock theirs over to make room and you might find yours knocked over for no apparent reason. Karma is more than just a concept, there may be witnesses that know them or worse, you.

:shit: :confused: :shifty:

[wkid_one]

Mate - I work on Grey Street - and I often wonder if people need a can opener to get their bikes out and a shoe horn to park them.....I would never have parked the R1 in many of the inner city parks purely for the reasons you mention.....

No different tho they carefully selecting which park you will take when taking you nice new car to the supermarket. Shall I park it next to the Mark III Cortina with freshly primed side panels or the Merc SLK - hmmm, I wonder.

[merv]

I just catch the train to work. No worries, but I do like looking at the bikes parked in town from time to time.

[Jackrat]

Mate - I work on Grey Street - and I often wonder if people need a can opener to get their bikes out and a shoe horn to park them.....I would never have parked the R1 in many of the inner city parks purely for the reasons you mention.....

No different tho they carefully selecting which park you will take when taking you nice new car to the supermarket. Shall I park it next to the Mark III Cortina with freshly primed side panels or the Merc SLK - hmmm, I wonder.
:laugh: I to always park next to the most exspensive thing I can find.
Or a car more likely to be stolen than mine.
Never next to a scooter or a MKIII with primer.
I panic at the thought of leaving my bike unatended.
Sod that,rather catch a bus.

[Motu]

Knock theirs over to make room

Best advice yet.

[Zed]

Hi Everyone,

Just something I have noticed and would appreciate everyones thoughts on.I have brought my bike to work today parked it at the bike stand outside work.I went out at lunch and I have a bike parked next to me on the left and a scooter on the right, now this bike park is on a busy part of lambton quay in wellington and the scooter has parked so close to mine that if I stand my bike up it will definitely hit the scooter, now I'm pretty pissed about it as my mates bike was damaged recently same scenerio,whats the ettiquette on this? do people care how close people park next to their bikes?

Sorry for the rant, but wheres the common sense?

Cheers
N
There are many twerps out there! :wacko:

Check this out!
http://barelybad.com/fpbadparking.htm


Zed

[LB]

Welcome to the site Omega1 - I didn't realise you were registered!!

I think she simply doesn't realise about how bikes with sidestands work. I'll have a quiet word next time she's on my floor.

Most scooter riders (not all though Debk!!) simply use them for commuting and don't have any "bike" sense.

Let me know if it's a problem again.

[BigB]

Thats a classic Zed

Well done

[Gixxer]

Just pick it up and move it out of the way.
happens at work all the time.

[aff-man]

yip same thing happens to me at tech. We used to park the bikes on this nice flat paved place under shelter. But the handicapped people with a parking next to where we were complained about us getting to close so what do the dicks at tech do. Give the bikes there own parking, a small triangle ON A HILL. So i have been parked in by other bikes who's owners obviouslry have more money than sense and had to try and manouver at an angle up a hill tilted over to get out. Not to mention the cages that park all around us

[Big Dog]

Best advice yet.
:lol: ... but way out of context.

[dangerous]

Ok so you guys have covered the in town parking thing, but what about when parking while out on a ride or at a rally?
I often find that other riders on biger bikes park to close aswell..... which pisses me a little as you should be able to through your leg over and not hit the bike beside you or tangle the mirrors up once you have stode your bike up and often when this happens theres a hole bloody car park to park in!

The other thing is when parking on dodgy ground like when at a rally and the ground is wet or soft. I make sure when parking up that should my bike fall over as sometimes 'shit happens' then it will fall clear of the bike next to it.

And 'shit does happen' dosent it "Lemans"...... To bring the rest of you to date just after I brought the Guzzi sport a few of us went to a rally down near Queenstown and Lemans Mk4 Guzzi fell on to his Mk3 which fell on to my Guzzi...... no damage was done but to our prides as half the bloody rally saw it happen :bye:

[Big Dog]

The other thing is when parking on dodgy ground like when at a rally and the ground is wet or soft. I make sure when parking up that should my bike fall over as sometimes 'shit happens' then it will fall clear of the bike next to it. :bye:
I used to cary a 3" square of 5ml plate (suitably polished) to put down under the stand when on soft surfaces. Absolutely briliant unless it rains then the stand slides accross the plate. I have seem some advertised made out of chequer plate with a loop of metal rod so it can't slide of once in place. I have only seen them in Uk mags but they cant be too hard to make. (if you aint worried about fancy a aluminium coke can has worked on sof soil for my bike :whistle: )

[wkid_one]

I used to cary a 3" square of 5ml plate (suitably polished) to put down under the stand when on soft surfaces. Absolutely briliant unless it rains then the stand slides accross the plate. I have seem some advertised made out of chequer plate with a loop of metal rod so it can't slide of once in place. I have only seen them in Uk mags but they cant be too hard to make. (if you aint worried about fancy a aluminium coke can has worked on sof soil for my bike :whistle: )
Just use your glove - works just as well when required. That way you don't need to go hunting through rubbish bins

[Lou Girardin]

You can buy side stand pads at certain fine motorcycle establishments.
Lou

[DeanOh]

Just lean it up against a Harley :D