nice parking ticket lady :)

[sunhuntin]

in a shop the other day...see a dude on an old triumph race style bike pull up outside. he drags it up onto the footpath and then onto the grass patch. i watch as he leans the bike against a tree and go outside to check the bike out. "no kickstand?" "nah", he says, "yah dont need kickstands, that what trees are for!"
along comes miss parking warden...looks the bike up and down and proceeds to say "i could give him a ticket for that. but he has no kickstand, so my eyes are closed and ill give this guy [cage] one instead!" she seemed to know bikes enough to be good about it...maybe a biker herself.

some are pretty good!!

[avgas]

Can they give a ticket for that? Its not like its a 'keep clear' area?

[thehollowmen]

Can they give a ticket for that? Its not like its a 'keep clear' area?

I think it depends on the bylaws..
in dunedin, definitally if it is on the footpath, a bit iffier in the mall-type areas

[sunhuntin]

i think if hed been obstructing pedestrian traffic flow, he would have been ticketed. but having no kick stand, the only other alternative would be to lean it on a car or something, lmfao. but he pulled it right up on the little grassy patch between shop signs [that do more obstructing! LOL]

[Ixion]

Actually, if there is a kerb, you can park against the kerb, with the footrest on the footpath holding the bike up. Used to park the Speed Twin like that all that time, it is surprisingly stable

[skidMark]

i have to park mine on the footpath if i park it on the road people don't see it and try to park over it well i dunno if they can see it or not,

but i don't want to find out eh

MA

[myvice]

Actually, if there is a kerb, you can park against the kerb, with the footrest on the footpath holding the bike up. Used to park the Speed Twin like that all that time, it is surprisingly stable

Pitty if you have fold-up footrests!

[skidMark]

yeah theres a point....as most bikes do....where's the welder

[Ixion]

Old Triumphs don't. Good solid ADJUSTABLE things they had.

[sunhuntin]

i have to park mine on the footpath if i park it on the road people don't see it and try to park over it well i dunno if they can see it or not,

but i don't want to find out eh

MA

i park with the front wheel poking out a bit, and leave room for other bikes to park alongside if they want to.

i dunno if the owner of the triumph thought to park on a kerb...didnt talk to him for very long.

[Waylander]

i have to park mine on the footpath if i park it on the road people don't see it and try to park

And yet you ride the thing around town....

I park on the sidewalk almost every day. Shit in the states I used to lean the bike up against the wall about 4 feet away from the door of whatever bar I was in at the time. Havn't once gotten a ticket for it.

[fishb8nz]

Just before Xmas, I parked very close to a disabled space, on a yellow chevroned patch. Illegal, but not hindering anyone. Just as I was taking my helmet and sunnies off, a meter maid walked by me. I asked her If I was ok to park there and she said she had much bigger things to worry about, so off I went. I came back about 20 minutes later and started to put my helmet and sunnies on but couldn't find my sunnies. An old boy parked in the disabled space told me I'd left my sunnies on the seat and the meter maid put them away. Then I saw she'd put then next to my speedo, so they would only be seen by the rider. Good one meter maid, thank you!

[ZeroIndex]

lol... now that's a good story

[Lou Girardin]

I'm pretty sure that parking on a grass berm is illegal anywhere.

[Skyryder]

I'm pretty sure that parking on a grass berm is illegal anywhere.

I think that is the general belief. But providing you walked your bike and did not ride in a pedestrian area I know of no by law that makes a distinction between motorcycles and bicycles to what is off road parking.

Skyryder