Bikes blown over at the bike park - Etiquette?

**Jeff Sichoe** · 14th October 2013, 15:37

Hey fellers

just been wondering - what's your stance on the correct 'etiquette' to use when bikes have blown over at the bike parking spaces?

Just now I went down and checked out the ole dog, and while it was fine and still standing the bike park on Tennyson St here in Wellington was a real mess.

3 Scooters blown over and into each other, one scooter was caught up in my bike.

1 Suzuki 750 GSX-F had blown over away from the sidestand (so the wind was obvisously enough to blow the bike upright, and then back over) this had then landed on a Cruiser which had also blown over and gotten itself all jammed up in what I think was a transalp?

Anyway, I picked up the scooters and parked them longwise in the gutter, so they weren't side on to the wind anymore, and pulled my bike around to a spare park here at work which is a bit more covered.

What I wasn't so keen on was messing with the broken / tangled bikes.

What would you do?

Pick up the bikes and potentially cause more damage but at least they'd be upright and not leaking fluids all over the god damn show?
Get ur mechano mate onto Carjam with the rego to try and track down the owner?

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**BMWST?** · 14th October 2013, 15:40

Originally Posted by Jeff Sichoe

Hey fellers

just been wondering - what's your stance on the correct 'etiquette' to use when bikes have blown over at the bike parking spaces?

Just now I went down and checked out the ole dog, and while it was fine and still standing the bike park on Tennyson St here in Wellington was a real mess.

3 Scooters blown over and into each other, one scooter was caught up in my bike.

1 Suzuki 750 GSX-F had blown over away from the sidestand (so the wind was obvisously enough to blow the bike upright, and then back over) this had then landed on a Cruiser which had also blown over and gotten itself all jammed up in what I think was a transalp?

Anyway, I picked up the scooters and parked them longwise in the gutter, so they weren't side on to the wind anymore, and pulled my bike around to a spare park here at work which is a bit more covered.

What I wasn't so keen on was messing with the broken / tangled bikes.

What would you do?

Pick up the bikes and potentially cause more damage but at least they'd be upright and not leaking fluids all over the god damn show?
Get ur mechano mate onto Carjam with the rego to try and track down the owner?

??

i woulda picked them up and left a note as to what had happened...maybe take some pics of general scene and of each bike as it was when you picked it up?

**fridayflash** · 14th October 2013, 15:41

hmm, what to do what to do..i guess id pick them up and untangle things where poss, although the wind you chaps are copping today might skittle them over again pronto

**Jeff Sichoe** · 14th October 2013, 15:46

Originally Posted by BMWST?

i woulda picked them up and left a note as to what had happened...maybe take some pics of general scene and of each bike as it was when you picked it up?

Hmmm yeah... Lets say I came across a poor olde bike having a lie down, on any other day where it wasn't guaranteed to just blow over again, i'd pick it up, and be on my way - maybe leave a note if there is obvious damage to let the person know how I found it and what state it was in etc

However what with the bikes tangled up, bars / levers crossed into clutch / throttle cables / faring damage, indicators broken etc...

I'm pretty big but not big enough to pick up a bike and simultaneously untangle two bikes at the same time, know what I mean?

**Akzle** · 14th October 2013, 15:50

fuck the scooterfags. And i probably wouldnt touch someone elses bike unless it was on mine, or theyd asked for help.

**Maha** · 14th October 2013, 15:52

I would pick it up and leave an invoice for my services....easy $130. Probably end up on Fair Go but time is money.

**unstuck** · 14th October 2013, 15:58

Fucked if you do, fucked if you don't round here. If you didn't then your a mongrel, and a disgrace to the biker brotherhood. If you did, then your a mongrel, and a disgrace to the biker brotherhood. Your a fuckin disgrace to the biker brotherhood, ok.

**Akzle** · 14th October 2013, 16:12

Originally Posted by unstuck

Fucked if you do, fucked if you don't round here. If you didn't then your a mongrel, and a disgrace to the biker brotherhood. If you did, then your a mongrel, and a disgrace to the biker brotherhood. Your a fuckin disgrace to the biker brotherhood, ok.

yea? Well, youre english. So fuck up and fuck away back to the motherland.

**unstuck** · 14th October 2013, 16:19

Originally Posted by Akzle

yea? Well, youre english. So fuck up and fuck away back to the motherland.

Suck my dick ya pedo.

**Akzle** · 14th October 2013, 16:37

Originally Posted by unstuck

Suck my dick ya pedo.

that wasnt even relevant.
Aaaaaand. Pd hammer.

**bogan** · 14th October 2013, 16:49

Circumstantial, if you can pick it up and repark it so it won't fall again, then do so. If picking it up will just lead to it falling over again (and it isn't leaking fluids) I'd say leave it down.

Picked up Oblivion's bike for him outside massey and reparked it a bit more stably (and a bit less leakily), chucked my number on a note for him and he seemed pretty thankful.

**BuzzardNZ** · 14th October 2013, 17:42

Personally, I think it's best to leave them down. Seen too many in Wellington pick em up only to have em blown back down resulting in more damage.

Streets of Wellington were a mess today, saw many a GN250 and plenty of scooters down.

**Trade_nancy** · 14th October 2013, 17:45

So - did they ride home in that??

**skippa1** · 14th October 2013, 19:20

If they're lying down they won't fall any further. Pickin em up will no doubt involve some collateral damage and chances are they will arse over again. Leave em for the owners to damage......