Good thread! parking wardens are tossers…if they can have you …by hook or by crook they will try!
I got ticketed at 01:00 on kennington road once upon a time…the wardens are like leaches creeping about during the night… i echo the advice of the above poster…
i used to have one of the screw on tax disc holders…quick twist and remove the tax disc…two loose plastic number plate holders…park bike, whizz the tax disc off, remove the number plate…YOU MUST though, chain the bike to something immovable. lamp post/railings etc… cutting your chain is criminal damage, they will just wander off and look for another bike that does not belong to someone who is as cute.
i once had my bike clamped under waterloo station…again, it had no plate or disc fitted…BUT It was not chained to anything… i walked past and saw them putting the clamp on it and writing the ticket to a “red honda” when i asked what they were planning to do they told me that it was going to be removed and impounded…i said nothing…just wandered off and came back with a massive chain… then quickly ran it through the frame and secured it to a nearby railing…they raced over from their van when they saw what i was doing but the padlock had just snapped shut!
oh, how the tables had turned!
i said “Try impounding that fcuker” as i walked off… the guy shouted after me “we will not remove the clamp you know” i said “thats ok, i’ll do it myself tomorrow then keep the clamp for my caravan”
I came back about two hours later…the clamp was gone and so was the ticket!
