Discrimination? Vehiclism?

[FilthyLuka]

get a two stroke? A gt750 kettle preferably. Proceed to fumigate the entire building.

[007XX]

get a two stroke? A gt750 kettle preferably. Proceed to fumigate the entire building.

A perfectly good burnout with the VFR will do the same just fine...and it'll have more PHWOAR factor!

[car]

My firstest and cunningest plan was to paint "M/C Praking Only - Towaway Enforced!" in yeller paint on my selected bike-sized wrecktangle.
I shoulda done that - I mean, no-one argues with the official yellow paint.

That's just what I thought, when I started parking at my new place of work. Right up until the security guard came out...

"You can't park there, mate."

"Why not?"

"Do you work here?"

"Yes, I've been here for about a month."

"You can't park there."

"But it says ``motorcycle parking for employees only'' and I'm and employee, and this is my motorcycle."

"Oh, yeah, well so-and-so usually parks over there," pointing to indicate the building next door's delivery bay with "NO PARKING!!!" and yellow crosshatch all over it.

"You mean I should move my bike out from under this sign that says``motorcycle parking for employees only'' and park it over there where it says ``NO PARKING!!!'' instead?"

"Yeah."

"No, I don't think so. If you want me to park there, you're going to have to give me that in writing, okay? Or take this sign down."

[vifferman]

"You mean I should move my bike out from under this sign that says``motorcycle parking for employees only'' and park it over there where it says ``NO PARKING!!!'' instead?"

That's just nuts.

At our old building, despite the proliferation of "Towaway" signs, I used to just park the bike either next to one of the Disabled Parking spaces, where there was a cross-hatched "No Parking" area, because the Disabled space was too far from any doors, so no-one ever used it (apart from able-bodied peoples). Alternatively, I used to park next to the garden, on the dotted yellow line, under a tree. No problems, but there would've been had anyone tried to remove my bike.

Talking about mentalness: what's up with 'wheelchair friendly' toilets? :spudwhat: In this 'new' building, and in the building I used to work in in Ponsonby, there are disabled toilets with wheelchair access. Great - how PC!
Except both offices are up three flights of stairs, with no other way into the building.
I suspect it's some useless piece of local gubmint bureaucracy that says all commercial buildings built after a certain date, or renovated after that date, have to have disabled facilities, regardless of whether said disabled folx can actually get into the building to use them.

At least it gives me more room to get changed outta my bike gear.

[pritch]

When I visited the Chateau Tongariro I suspected I might get a similar reaction to that you received and would have understood perfectly if I had.

On the other hand they told me I could park under the porch right outside the front door and that the staff would keep an eye on the bike during the night...

Very impressed I was.

[car]

That's just nuts.
...
At least it gives me more room to get changed outta my bike gear.

Speaking of nuts, my last long-term job, I just used to get changed in my office because the toilets were just too damned small to wrestle my fat can into my leathers. Woe betide anyone who wandered in unawares and caught me in my... unawares.

I'm reminded, also, of a guy I used to be acquainted with, who rode his GSX-R *everywhere*. A regular old, bold pilot, knee down everywhere. He told tales of the times he turned up at one office or another, in his leathers, asking if there was somewhere he could get changed, and he'd get varying levels of animosity from the desk staff. Right up until he emerged from the toilets in his Very Expensive Suit, which he'd carefully folded underneath his leathers, and they realised that he was in fact Senior VP of Hiring, Firing and Generally Owning Your Ass, Lady. Different story, then.

[vifferman]

... he emerged from the toilets in his Very Expensive Suit, which he'd carefully folded underneath his leathers.

Yeah, that used to amuse my fellow workmates in my last job, which had a formal dress code. I'd arrive in my road-spooge covered bike gear, then a few seconds later, there I'd be in suit'n'tie.
With the 'relaxed' dress code of my current job, I think I look more tidy in my newish bike gear, which costs about ten times what my typical office garb does.
But obviously Some Bint downstairs didn't see me arrive this morning.

[Blackbird]

Until I retired, I was mainly based at the Kinleith pulp and paper mill just south of Tokoroa. About 20% of senior staff there were bikers so it was hard to be discriminated against! The only grizzling was if just one bike occupied a car spot, but we normally doubled up anyway.

[Swoop]

Or take this sign down."

Different approach...

"You need to put another sign over there, saying more bike parking allowed here!"

[more_fasterer]

How dare she insinuate that a VFR isn't a good look.

What does she want? A hardley praked there?

I feel a callout of the "VFRPS Ready Reaction Force" is imminent.

Wot 'e said. I think the 2-smoker idea has more merit though. Particularly if you have to spend 10mins warming it up with loud blips of the the throttle, as all 2-smokers require...

Where's the new place of work? I'm up for a ride over there one lunchtime... park bikes f'n everywhere and bugger off for a boozy lunch

Great idea... there are some nice food houses on that road

[dangerous]

"Some Bint"

Unless that bint! is my boss I wouldnt be moving the fuker anywere... theres only one um... FUCK UM

[Oakie]

"not a good look".

I'll put my serious HR hat on and advise you to park in the original very sensible place tomorrow and then tell her "I'm parking in the place you said yesterday I shouldn't park becasue it's not a 'good look'. I will continue to park there until you give me the reason in writing why it is not a good look".

This will result in

A) her shutting up
B) her getting someone higher up the food chain to scare you into compliance
C) her giving you a good reason and then you thanking her and moving to a more socially acceptable place.

[rat biker 08]

I have agood smokey bike . And its big n black .

[Usarka]

It's funny you should say that. One of my cunning plans (or was it a cunning stunt?) was to post on that KB website, and ask if anyone had some old dungery, oil-leaking, smoky, festering, rusty Pile'oCrap I could borrow.
Just to show her what a comparatively good look an RC46 really is.

Ahhh the old "turn down that music" trick where you gradually turn the stereo up until wife/girlfriend/mother/neighbour storms in and has a heammorrage. Then you turn it down to the volume whence it's started.

"That's better!"

[xwhatsit]

It's in the drive named after that there "mythological Greek god, the messenger of the deep. He is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and Amphitrite, goddess of the sea. He is usually represented as a merman, having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish".
In deepest, darkest Albania.

I didn't know they had Triumph-engined Featherbeds in Albania?

That's why the VFR is a bad look. Too much plastic for a drive named that.