Stranger moving your bike?

[swbarnett]

Actually I bought a bike initially as a toy before developing a passion for the experience of motorcycling. That passion is for the experience itself, not the hunk of metal that delivers it.

Then you really have no appreciation of how different bikes deliver different experiences and how one can become very attached to the particular experiences delivered by the bike that is currently owned.

Sure, if you have a callus lack of regard for anyone else.

What a load of utter bollox! I do NOT have a callus lack of regard for anyone else. Anyone that knows me will tell you the exact opposite. I will go out of my way to be courteous and I expect no less from others. If I am legitimately parked why the hell does the fact that someone is just plain lazy give them the right to touch my property?

As MarkH said - there are exceptions to the rule!

Indeed. And it better be a bloody good reason before another's property is messed with without permission. How much the owner values that particular piece of property is completely irrelevant.

I disagree, so what?

So what indeed. I really don't believe that you understand that of which you speak. Until you have experienced it you can not claim to understand.

Just because I don't place as much value in material objects as you does not mean I am incapable of understanding the value that other people instil in them.

Sorry, but this is exactly why you can never understand. It would be like me saying I understand what it's like to lose a child even though I've never had children.

That's the thing, from the point of view of the bike owner. Why does that point of view take precedence over anyone else?

Are you really trying to say that the point of view of a theif is equally valid in relation to someone else's property? When an inanimate object is "owned" there is a legal relationship between the "owner" and the "property" that gives the owner the primary right to determine what happens to the owned property, whether the owner is present or not.

[davebullet]

If I knew the person and knew they knew motorcycles - not an issue.

The problem with the average car driver is they would probably end up dropping it, knock a wing mirror or lean against painted parts with their zips etc and not aware they might scratch it.

At the end of the day, given the circumstances (driver had clear exit behind) - that behaviour is not acceptable.

I wonder if Harley riders ever experience this? I mean, most car drivers would think if a Harley "could be a big maori fulla or member of a gang - better leave it alone"

[PrincessBandit]

Sure, if you have a callus lack of regard for anyone else. As MarkH said - there are exceptions to the rule!

Aaaarrgghh - "o" add the "o" - callous.

A callus is something else; caused by friction on certain places of the body...

[Smifffy]

Aaaarrgghh - "o" add the "o" - callous.

A callus is something else; caused by friction on certain places of the body...

In this case I think the callus is between the ears.

[gatch]

Unless you are throwing your body on top of it to save it from a potential assassination attempt, DO NOT TOUCH MY FUCKING BIKE.

OR I WILL STAB YOU.

[jazfender]

[imdying]

It's easy not to have any great concern for somebody moving your bike when it's a piece of shite

[imdying]

I disagree, so what?

So nothing. Just don't get all uppity when you're on the receiving end of a smack round the back of your head from a Shoei.

[stonefish]

Definitely hands off!! The bike is sacred!

Last year my husband popped into a servo in Auckland to fill up with gas. He parked his bike next to the pump (as you do), filled up, and walked into the shop to pay. As he was walking back out, to his absolute horror and disbelief he saw some small fat woman in the process of moving his bike out the way so she could get her car to the pump

Lucky he came out when he did because she was also in the process of dropping the 1000cc beast onto the tarmac

Unbelievable!! One thing is for sure - she won't be going near another bike (or biker) again after the earbashing she received that day

[Max Preload]

It's called unlawfully interfering with a motor vehicle. If I were to catch someone doing it to any of mine I'd punch them in the face.

[MarkH]

Definitely hands off!! The bike is sacred!

Last year my husband popped into a servo in Auckland to fill up with gas. He parked his bike next to the pump (as you do), filled up, and walked into the shop to pay. As he was walking back out, to his absolute horror and disbelief he saw some small fat woman in the process of moving his bike out the way so she could get her car to the pump

Lucky he came out when he did because she was also in the process of dropping the 1000cc beast onto the tarmac

Unbelievable!! One thing is for sure - she won't be going near another bike (or biker) again after the earbashing she received that day

This is what I have been talking about in this thread - there was NO need for the woman to move the bike, she should just wait like she would with any other vehicle. Which is better, 30 seconds of waiting or dropping someone's bike and doing over a thousand dollars worth of damage (damage 2 fairing pieces . . .) to it? Why risk it? Do people like that take the handbrake of a car and push it out of the way instead of waiting?

If she never tries that stupid shit again then the ear bashing was 100% effective and IMO 100% warranted. She had no right to put her hands on that bike and she had no need either.

If I'm gassing up and see a person waiting to use the pump after me then I'll roll forward and allow them access to the pump while I go and pay. If there is no one waiting then I'll just go and pay, if someone turns up and wants that pump while I'm paying then I expect them to wait - it's not like I'll take very long.

If I park in such a way as to block in another motorcyclist and he has to move my bike to get out then I'm OK with that (more OK with their actions than my own TBH). But if another motorcyclist moves my bike so that they can park I'd find that a bit annoying - they could have just parked elsewhere, they shouldn't touch other bikes if they don't need to.

[White trash]

White trash......

" Fucks sake. What a bunch of homos.


So a biker, needs to move his car and trailer but can't get out and so carefully moves a couple of bikes a few feet without damaging them, and moves his car, then admits to it. So he's a cunt?

Motherfucker should have run straight over the top of them, then at least you could all bleat about the careless cage driver with no respect that knocked over your precious bikes.

THEY'RE MOTORBIKES, PIECES OF STEEL ON WHEELS THAT CAN BE MOVED WITHOUT CONTRACTING THE LEPROSY! Grow the fuck up people"

A bit more sober today?...

Good thanks mate, I've given up drinking for a couple of days and the head's a bit clearer. Appreciate the concern.

In the seriousness of sobrierty though, Owl knows me well enough to not take me seriously at the best of times. Sober or smashed.

[Smifffy]

Definitely hands off!! The bike is sacred!

Last year my husband popped into a servo in Auckland to fill up with gas. He parked his bike next to the pump (as you do), filled up, and walked into the shop to pay. As he was walking back out, to his absolute horror and disbelief he saw some small fat woman in the process of moving his bike out the way so she could get her car to the pump

Lucky he came out when he did because she was also in the process of dropping the 1000cc beast onto the tarmac

Unbelievable!! One thing is for sure - she won't be going near another bike (or biker) again after the earbashing she received that day

Jazfender will be along shortly to say:

"But what if the fat lady was an emt and she needed the fuel so that she could go and administer treatment to 25 asthmatic orphans who were suffering from smoke inhalation after their orphanage caught fire, and for every extra second she needed to wait a kitten would die. Of course after she got her fuel, she would then need to risk dropping it a second time in order to put it back where it was, otherwise that would be cheeky."

[Owl]

Owl knows me well enough to not take me seriously at the best of times. Sober or smashed.

Of course!

[Max Preload]

What if it had been Angelina Jolie?

We could enter into negotiations as to an acceptable remedy for her infringement.