ok firstly I would like to raise the subject of moving bike the general concensus on here is you do not move other peoples biks well what about this seneraio?
Come in bike old bike bay fit about 15(ish bike) well this guys had parked his scooter from left to right rather than back to front (or visa versa) taking up easily 4 parking spaces. I have taken pics so you can have a look but on phone at the moment…
Question is on this one, would you have moved the bike to fit in?
Me I did as there was no where else for a 1/4 of a mile…
I would move it, but if I dropped it I would leave a note saying your a muppet and I dropped your bike because you took up the space of 4 bikes so sorry will pay for damage. (unlike most other scoota riders that will not even pick up your bike)
I would move it. Actually i have moved bikes before aswell esp when I see 3 scooters parked miles away but if were closer you could fit another one in between.
This didnt happen often near piccadilly mind you. by 9:00 am all bikebays were full of bikes - as tightly parked as sardines in a can!
I’d bloody move it! It doesn’t take a brain scientist to work out that you park in a line instead of across the bay. Just chuck it in the line and be done with it!
With any luck they will get worried on the way back when they cannot see their bike in the place it was when they left it and may learn how to park in a bay properly!!!
the only conclusion I can come to is that maybe he was saving spaces for his mates, but still this is bang out of order if you miss out you miss out you shouhld just get out of bed earlier…
Where does all this “scooter riders don’t have the same consideration or manners as us real bikers” stuff come from? It is not born out by my experieince. When Jackie and I turned up for the BCW photoshoot we couldn’t park nearby because a BMW had parked along a bay taking up at least four bikes worth of space.
From my office window i can see where Jackie parks her bike. I have seen her bike moved three times. Never by a scooter, twice by BMWs and once by an old Honda CB750.
As for the office parking. The reason Jackie has to park out in a bay is that the parking spaces under the office are oversubscribed. Jackie has been on the waiting list for 15 months. Why is that? Because people with Fireblades who don’t even use their bikes to ride to work, park them there and only ride them at weekends! How considerate is that? I did make me laugh back in the winter when I found one of them late on a Friday trying to start his completly dead bike. He had left it parked there so long the alarm had flattened the battery.
There is a Triumph rider who always arrives late at work and is therefore forced to find a space to park his bike after the designated spaces have all been taken. He nearly always parks his bike across in front of the bikes as there is just enough space between the front wheels and the nearest car space. He doesn’t seem to understand that bikes on centre stand, like the CG125s that several people choose to use for communiting rather than their weekend bikes, need a few inches to roll forward off the stand. How considerate is that? Before now I have been forced to move his bike just to get mine out as he has chosen to block people in.
well I know for a fact that this scooter is a regular at this particular spot so he/she should know the rules.
like I say though parking a bike is like a war in london you cannot take any prisoners, he was so inconciderate to everyone else on the roads so why should any be shown back.
I agree it is like war sometimes. I was just trying to point out that the problem can’t be blamed on scooters as others, especially the poseurs, are just as incondierate, and often much more selfish and disrespectful than the genuine commuters.
esp. with scooters. I would move the scooter, but i wouldn’t take it out on the scooter (leave it outside the bay as above, or be careless with it) because you can’t be certain that it wasn’t someone other than the owner that left it like that.
Not fussed if it’s a bike or a scoot.
But what really gets on my tits is the ones that park so close I can’t stand the bike up (from the side stand) to ride it out. Oh and while I’m at it: Break my indicators off again and I’ll break more than that on yours!
and that’s why i love parking in fulham. There are bike bays that are as normal cramed up with scooters; however if you know the rules bikes can park in residential spaces if there is no time limit sign! I love how my shiney new cbr gets all the room in the world all day everyday!
simple solution park your bike in front of his in the space as if he wasnt there then other people will do the same thus the selfish git is blocked in and he will have to wait for you to come back aswell as the other 3 bikes before he can move his and go home, that will teach him a lesson
i think those large BMW roof bikes are the worst tho there are 3 where i work and there always on there side lol
