My baby was knocked over today!!!

[SPman]

That's a bummer.

Or a bumper!

[Ms Piggy]

Mate! That sucks! I can guarantee ya it would have been the wind. I've actually seen my bike blow over on a really blustery day when I've parked there (I can see that park from where I sit at work), it can be a real wind tunnel and the bikes park up pretty snug there too.

Both times (yes it's happened twice!) someone has very kindly picked it up for me.

[Slingshot]

Thanks for all of your sympthy, although it was windy today I'm fairly confident that it wasn't blown over. For starters, this morning I parked it on an angle (instead of straight) to have the bike lean a little more on the stand to combat the wind.

But the really telling sign is the white scuff marks on the left hand side of the bike (the drop damage was on the right side). I've attached a diagram to explain what I mean. If there was a car parked close enough and they weren't watching the front of the car when they were reversing the nose could quite easily have swung into the bike and knocked it over.

I'm going to post a sign there tomorrow to see if I can get information.

[skelstar]

Sorry to hear about the ding mate.

[S&S]

Stink mate... im sure karma will catch up with the prick for not leaving a note.

Similar thing happen to me a few years ago, I guy was trying to parallel park, didn't see my bike behind him, knocked it over & continued to squash it against a lamp post! Once I got back to the bike, 3 people ran up to me saying they had detained this guy that squashed my bike, who had tryed to do a runner once he realised what that lump was behind his van
What a interesting conversation that was with him

[Sniper]

Bugger mate. Hope you get it looking new again.

[Str8 Jacket]

Sorry to hear about your baby Slingshot. I didn't ride my bike in yesterday which was just as well as all the bikes in the park up the road from work were blown over there was quite a bit of damage done all up. Another guy that I work with said that there was another bike park up by the library somewhere where a similar thing happened. Though yours does sound more like sabotage, which sux!

[stunz]

If anyone knows anything, saw anything, heard anything, please let me know.

I reckon it was the wind Slingshot. Four or five bikes went arse over here on the Terrace yesterday...
A couple of scooters, (teach them for bumping my mirrors askew all the time ) a shiny naked, and one or two fairings? Note: All these bikes were at the Southern end of the bike-rank. The front one obviously caught the gust, and the domino effect took care of the rest.
Thankfully, though it has happened before, mine wasnt one of them...this time

[magicfairy]

Sorry to hear about your baby Slingshot. I didn't ride my bike in yesterday which was just as well as all the bikes in the park up the road from work were blown over there was quite a bit of damage done all up. Another guy that I work with said that there was another bike park up by the library somewhere where a similar thing happened. Though yours does sound more like sabotage, which sux!

I park in Hunter St bike park, the one closest to Queens Wharf (there are two bike parks) Doesn't seem to get as much wind as the more exposed parks, I have never seen any of the bikes there blown over, even yesterday. But you have to be in quick to get a park in the morning.