Ticketing of Bikes - Footpath and Wof/Rego tickets

**motorbyclist** · 13th October 2007, 00:26

maybe if we electrify our bikes they'll think twice before ticketing/stealing them

just run an electric tape, powered by a few car batteries down the whole length of symonds and hook your bike up to it with cable/padlock. gloves should insulate us, and sparks/arcing should deter all them

(just watch it doesn't cause a fire or damage to electrics though)

edit: omg genius! just hook everyone's batteries together! like organise it and shit so you have to have a working alternator/battery and when you leave you don't break the high voltage chain

**Squiggles** · 13th October 2007, 00:29

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

i think we can all agree that the r1 (who parks WAY to close to that door to the lockers) has top priority, along with the ducati998, then maybe nish's bike, the cbr600f that parks under the commons, my vfr, the tl if it's there, that asian guy's nice as black cbr250, then chris's bike which has no stand so can't park normally anymore, and the list keeps going down untill the theifs wont bother and move onto other parts of auckland

*sigh*

Chris' bike is the only one that actually needs to be there, i dont think the scooter riders would fancy it being propped up against one of them!

I think it should be a first come first served arrangement, just like normal parking, we all make as much room as possible for others, and if theres no more room left then you're outta luck and have to go find another place (Note: NOT along the wall/walkway). There'll be a perfect balance sooner or later

**motorbyclist** · 13th October 2007, 00:30

Originally Posted by Squiggles

Its all good as long as we dont head down the path of "bikes only", while a sports bike shares more risk in being parked on symonds than a scooter (in regards to theft), we cant be saying that a sports bike is therefore entitled to a space over a scooter, lest my tl be kicking your bike outta the back there and a busa kicking me out

The ease at which they can park on symonds is why they mostly do, and i suspect that the couple that do park in the back there come from the city side of campus (which is hardest to approach from to get onto symonds st for parking)

yeah i'm not saying bikes only, just priority. i would move over for the r1.

hell i deliberatley never parked by that steel bar so those with bike locks could use them rather than me wasting precious space. then i saw a scooter had taken up the last spot but never tied up! i don't think they realise why people were parking there. similarily i had no prob moving elsewhere when chris took my spot cause his stand was broken and he needed that pillar to lean on - even if the stand IS entirely his fault:P

**motorbyclist** · 13th October 2007, 00:37

Originally Posted by Squiggles

*sigh*

Chris' bike is the only one that actually needs to be there, i dont think the scooter riders would fancy it being propped up against one of them!

haha it'd be scooter dominoes all down symonds st

Originally Posted by Squiggles

I think it should be a first come first served arrangement, just like normal parking, we all make as much room as possible for others, and if theres no more room left then you're outta luck and have to go find another place (Note: NOT along the wall/walkway). There'll be a perfect balance sooner or later

well that IS more or less what we have now... cept when i tried today to get in the spot under the commons over by the cages i found the vfr is damn heavy to be dragging sideways between two bikes (ehab's and a blue vtr) cause my turning circle is so poor.

how long till we start filling up the courtyard there and get kicked out again you reckon?

**Tickler** · 13th October 2007, 09:25

Squiggles, your not preparing for a 2000 word essay are you?

Some interesting things, but alot of the issues here are very grey areas,

The problems with where we are allowed to park mainly rise out of the fact that the uni etc have there own agenda and things they want to do.
Being able to say that it is student owned has some merit, i mean after all you own you 1/10000 share of the student % of income plus your 1/4000000 share of the government funding.
I pay taxes so by the same argument i should own the police and force them to find stolen bikes? I would rather live another day with them stopping murderers than have my bike found. Although they could stop paying that bloody Riccard's salary while hes at uni. that should improve the police budget!
I mean, if every body sat down and worked this out together we wouldnt have problems, but alas this isnt a perfect world. Bakini bike wash friday never happens

(although i think it should).
Why shouldnt we be allowed to utlise wasted space in a visually unpleasent part of uni, nobody really sees? obviously the system is flawed

While no-one has been hit on symonds st yet (touch wood), and it seems blind to wait until it happens. I dont think many council dept's wouldn't take note until it did happen (unfortunately)

Overall, its not the best situation for us all. but life is all about comprimise.
P.s surely midnight on a friday is TL wheelie practice

**motorbyclist** · 13th October 2007, 10:04

i'm not asking police stop murder investigations to find a bike, but they seem quite happy to set up speed traps and just drive around looking to ticket people rather than find stolen goods. i mean, people make a good living stealing things off us working people/students. perhaps if this was to change our insurance premiums might go down a bit too.

and it's a democracy - the government works for us, not the other way round, so we should able to demand that the police make a shift from minor speeding offenses (which the real offenders with unsafe vehicles/dangerous driving/no licence never actually pay for) to "real" crime.

same for the uni, and alfred st parking - we pay for it, we should have some say! especially as us parking on uni property/alfred st is of no inconvienience to anyone else.

**Jabez** · 13th October 2007, 10:38

Originally Posted by PirateJafa

Doesn't specify bicycle... anyone want to argue that a motorcycle could legally park there?

Since the cycle & motorcycle are defined.. Good luck with that one.

Cycle and motorcycle are defined in 1.6 interpretation, "Preliminary provisions" of Land Transport (Road User) Rule 2004:
cycle—

(a)means a vehicle that has at least 2 wheels and that is designed primarily to be propelled by the muscular energy of the rider; and

(b)includes a power-assisted cycle

motorcycle—

(a)means a motor vehicle running on 2 wheels, or not more than 3 wheels when fitted with a sidecar; and

(b)includes a vehicle with motorcycle controls that is approved as a motorcycle by the Director; but

(c)does not include a moped