Cycle bays.

[Beehive Bedlam]

Can motorbikes get tickets for parking in cycle bays? I've got a big contract in York at the moment and there isn't anywhere to park where I can keep an eye on my bike.

Also I caught this fat chump checking out my bike. He was conversing with someone on the phone the alarm must have been enough to spook him.

He had cleared off by the time I got outside and the alarm was going off.

This was in York town centre on Saturday afternoon.

https://i.imgur.com/QSBc8iI.jpg

[sjc]

Will depend on the local council I expect.
I got a parking ticket for the same thing in Norwich.

[Polarbear]

[DRZ4Hunned]

Just park it 100 yards down the road infront of Infinity motorcycles where all the others park, there's even motorcycle parking down the side with a huge metal bar to lock your bike to. P
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[AdamEf]

Technically it's parking on the pavement, which is not allowed. But as mentioned, local wardens may be lenient, depending on area.

I have heard a story recently where someone regularly parked like that though and was ok for ages, then one day someone (member of the public) must have complained and local authority / wardens had to act on complaint and they ticketed the motorbikes.

[gorillaonabik...]

I park in a cycle bay in Central London.

I think it is private land so is technically legal as there is no regulation against this.
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[Silver_Fox]

Did he touch your bike to set the alarm off?

[Rogerborg]

[AdamEf]

There's quite a lot of pavement where it looks like it's part of the "highway" but is actually a continuation of the pavement surface onto private land. Some cycle parking is tucked into these areas. Not sure if councils know they're surfacing someone elses property or if it's ever an issue. Worth checking official boundaires if you do ever get a ticket though.

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[Polarbear]

[grr666]

Liar.
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[talkToTheHat]

Find a tradffic warden and ask them?

I tried asking DBMC's enquiry office. They didnt even know there were any motorcycle bays in the metropolitan borough. They gave me several different leflets showing me where i can pay for parking and where disabled parking bays are but none of them showed motorcycle bays.

Asking warden 33, who was a nice polite guy but didn't want to be identified by any other handle, i learned the location of every motorcycle bay in the centre, which council cctv cameras were any good, and that i could park pretty much anywhere so long as it wasnt blocking a pavement so that wheelchairs couldn't get past, in a disabled bay, or on double yellows, and not to pay at any council meter. Much encouragement to use bicycle parking as the cyclists dont use it and there's way too much.

I think the thriving metropolis that is Doncaster is accidentally really motorcycle friendly.
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[Silver_Fox]

Shame about the HIV
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[BumpingUglys]

There's stacks of legit parking in York. Lord Mayor's Walk, behind Sainsbury's on Bootham, Car park on Stonebow, opposite Infinity (see above).

Not to mention you can park in any resident bay. And given that half the space within the walls is residential, and it takes about a 10 minute brisk walk to get from one side of the city to the other, you shouldn't have a problem...
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