Bike parking spaces #$)(#_)$(_)@

[geoffm]

For bonus points if you are letting down the tyres, put superglue on the valve and caps so they can't pump them up again

[Slingshot]

Always keep a few nails in your pocket. When you find a car parked in a motorbike spot simply angle the nail infront of the wheel.

I've heard this mentioned a couple of times lately...it's got to be the dumbest thing I heard in a long time.
I'll be tracking YOU down when that fucking nail punctures MY tire after not penetrating the car's tire!!!

[Calo]

man just got back from new lynn and some dickfuck was parked in the bikespot

That's the park next to the road cones, right? I turned up there a couple of weeks ago and someone had parked there. Turned out to be a disabled parker! I thought "stuff it" and parked on the other side of the cones.

Now I know how the disabled feel when a cager takes their spot.

[Ixion]

i always put mypocket knife through 2 tires, nobody carries 2 spares. then leave a nice msg on bonnet with my vivid

Big pocket knife. "Someone I know (but I don't know his name or what he looks like or where he can be found )" tried putting a knife through a tyre sidewall. Ain't easy, ain't easy at all. Slicing the valve stem off now .....

[unhingedlizard]

glueing the valve sounds good to me, doesnt cause lasting damage as they can be easily and cheaply replaced but man its a pain in the ass. Had some kids keep stealing my coloured valve caps so lockthreaded them on. Wont do that again in a hurry!

[Lou Girardin]

Shove a rag paper towel up their exhaust. Do you carry a cleaning towl for your bike? Use that up their exhuast.........deep up the exhaust so that they can not see it.

Skyryder

This is so evil. Wish I'd thought of it.

[FEINT]

I usually park in front of the City Library in the evenings when I had night classes. There are 2 car sized bike parks there. I get there at about 5:45 in the evening and some fu** is usually parked there. I hate it as well, why can't they park somewhere else? They don't park in loading zones, why park in bike parks.

I think removing the tyre valve is a brilliant idea!

-remove air from tire
-superglue valve

hehehe..

[skidz]

I approve of that. Only thing is, with tubeless tyres, they won't associate the nail, found much later when the tyre actually goes flat, with parking in a bike spot. So it's not educational.

It'll work if you put the nails in two tyre valves. ( Only got one spare.)

[Wolf]

A similar thread suggested stickering the windshield with something along the lines of "Hey, I'm an arsehole who parks in bike parks" on it - carry a whole bunch of peel 'n' stick stickers - bright looks-like-car-green/pink-stickered-by-cops ones.

The other suggestion was to then cut the sticker with a razor blade so it comes apart when they try to peel it off - have them out there for hours getting it off.

Saw on bloke whose Merc was parked at an angle out of a car park jutting out into the road, rear of the car was quite a distance from the curb, front of the car was so far out in the lane, people were having to change lanes to get around it. Dunno how he got his licence - I thought parallel parking was one of the things they tested.

Wanted to see him so I could ask him when he was going to fix up all the potholes - well, from his car and the way he parked I gathered that he owned the road so I think it would be a fair question...

[vifferman]

A similar thread suggested stickering the windshield with something along the lines of "Hey, I'm an arsehole who parks in bike parks" on it - carry a whole bunch of peel 'n' stick stickers - bright looks-like-car-green/pink-stickered-by-cops ones.

Not that's the best idea - non-destructive (so you don't get into trouble when he/she was the miscreant), and also gets the message across.
All the other ones may help you get revenge, but the trouble is that what you're doing is out of proportion to the 'crime' they've committed.
Although I liked the idea of parking on top of cars that are misparked.

Hey Lou - another good idea (instead of paper towels) is to use expanding foam up the zorst pipe. I very nearly did that one night to a whole bunch of noisy boy racers' cars that used to rent a house a few doors down from ours.
Can just imagine it:
[rrr..rrrr.rrrrr..rrrrr.rrrrr] "WTF?!? Car no startee! Mus' be broke! Have to wire parents for more moneys and buy new one!"

Either that, or stick a very small pipe in the zorst first, with expanding foam around it, so it goes but makes only a pathetic little squeaking.