Parking bikes...

[Ste]

Exactly. But further up there are people who are happy to move other bikes and scooters, tintin and hellkat both say they're happy to move other people bikes.

[tintin]

It's OK to move scooters, because most of them don't park properly, leave too big a gap between each other and don't care even if you point it out to them.

Most of us will park a sensible distance from another bike, they just chuck them in the middle of the bay!

I've had my bike moved, and whilst not happy I would rather another biker was able to park and not get a ticket.
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[Shade_BW]

I'd rather have a biker move a scooter, than a scooterist move a bike.

Think about what is easier to move, and how unfamiliar a scooterist is going to be with a bike.

You can drag a bike around on its' side stand, but only if you know what you're doing.

But generally, it is extremely bad manners to touch someone elses bike without their permission. Most bikers understand this. Do scoot riders?

But also a biker will understand if his bike is in the way, and was moved carefully.

Shade
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[Panther]

when in Weston S M I parked up on the front with the parking attendants a couple of cars away...thye watched us get changed from leathers to walky around gear and just as we had packed everything away came up to us and said that we had to pay and disply...I asked where the fug do I put the ticket, the answer, take it with you....right, they then suggested that I should move to the bike parking 200 yards up the road....w@nkers...

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[Ste]

Moving a bike or scooter is exactly the same thing if it is a biker moving a scooter, or a scooter rider moving a bike. If you're okay with bikers moving scooters then you can't complain if someone moves your bike, as that is exactly the same thing as you're happy to do to someone elses property.

[hellkat]

You're exactly right, Ste (as usual).

But . . .































. . . shit happens.


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[Ste]

I'm not saying it doesn't. But it is different and daft to be quite happen to make shit happen to someone else, but to complain when they do it to you. Double standards really.

[hellkat]

Who's complaining.
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[funmonkee]

...Can one of you tell me the term used by London bikers when they lift and deposit scooters to park their 'real' bikes??? Someone told me a few weeks ago but forgot instantly ;-(

Ta
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[Ste]

You can't turn around and complain if someone moves your bike (or scooter) if you're quite happy to move other peoples bikes (or scooters). Double standards if you do.

[hellkat]

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[hellkat]

Ah the famous "karma-bashing" playground tactic.
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[headlamp]

Bike parking is a bit of a lottery in London. I recall once parking in Mayfair - on the edge of a bay early and a stupid idiot had parked his scooter, next to my bike, leaving me no room to get on the bike to go and scratching a bit of the paintwork. To get out of the space I moved the scooter so it was outside the bay!

The vulture like wardens in Westminster would have pounced and the £30 fine he undoubtedly got was compensation for the scratch and his stupidity in parking, literally on top of my bike!
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[hellkat]

Naughty NAUGHTY "headlamp"
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[Ste]

If someone moves your bike because you have parked blocking them in it's to be expect really. But someone moving your bike because they would prefer it to be somewhere else so that you can use the space where they're bike (or scooter) was parked and bitching about people touching your bike is daft. If you're quite happy to do something to someone else, you can hardly be suprised if someone then does it to you.

[Jinx]

oooh how smug do I feel - In Corsham (the small town I live in parking is FREEEEEE!!! and in Chippenham jsut up the road parking is free for the first hour in the majority of our carparks!!!! 25p for 2 hours, 50p for three hours!!!

Dont ya just LOOOVE wiltshire! hehehe
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[The Tot]

I really don't give a toss if people move my bike... So long as both of us are in a space, it's fine by me. I wouldn't even mine if somebody chains their lock onto my lock - provided the oaf hasn't tied his chain around my rim! which would be bloody daft! If you want to park near charing cross/holborn, the bike park in temple has an abundance of space, and people often dont mind chaining up to eachother's bike. I always chain up to my m8s NSR when we're huddled together in central london... makes it even harder for them to nick our bikes i suppose Is the "lock it to me" scheme effective and how many of you would object to some other person chaining their bike/scoot onto yours?
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[Ste]

Quite happy for someone to chain their chain to my chain, not to my bike though. No reason to mind it being chained to the chain as long as they havn't managed to damage anything or set the alarm off.