Saw this today,bikes not causing any problem,wardens were laughing until they saw me taking pics.
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As far as i am concerned they have gave the wardens easy targets.
As much as they are not in the way they are parked on the pavement or wotever its called.
Yeah, didn’t they know that registration plates have to be removed to park there?! 
I went by tube so no parking tickets and a few pints.
We should be like the French. If there’s at least 2m free for pedestrians[1] then normally no notice is taken (even though parking on the pavement is technically illegal). In Paris once a month the Flics ticket all the bikes in just one street, just to make the point - a bit like closing a footpath once a year to ensure a ‘right-of-way’ isn’t established here.[1] To be sure, that’s tricky in London…
Velco plates, brilliant invention.
No plate, no tax disc? Fine, remove the bike and crush it…
I wouldn’t risk it.
well, the amount of people we deal with who dont bother to a: either tax their vehicle, b: bother to display it… and we clearly display notices explaining that these vehicles if parked on bikebays will be taken away and we will not be reponsible for this… ive got no sympathy for people like this.
Err, you obviously didn’t see the copy of a French bike mag I picked up in Paris earlier in the year! Big multi page article about how they were clamping down on bikes parking on pavements, including plenty of pics of open back trucks crammed full of PTWs that they were being lifted onto the back by crane.That said, most of them were scooters, so guess it would raise a few cheers from a number of folks on here ! 
IIRC, that was in just one Arrondisment (sp? local area, anyway) and was instigated by a pedal-cycle fanatic politician who has now been hounded out of office. I haven’t had any recent feedback though, so these ‘facts’ should be checked…
loads of bikes parked illigally, and you thought the wardens would turn a blind eye.:hehe:
It doesn’t surprise me one bit that they are sticking tickets on them, what else would you expect? common sense:P
It should be legal to beat a traffic warden with a baseball bat simple!
i believe it is in some boroughs:cool:
Ok,so it is illegal,but it is a special weekend with a couple of million people making their way to one area which has about two bike bays ,no extra facilities were made available.
thats the whole idea!
get a load of people into a small area, give them nowhere to park, then ticket the lot, sound like a plan:Wow:
Ah so it was a bike event? ok if the cars park there too then?
people know by now not to chance it.
I fell foul at Strawberry Fayre. I parked on the raised paving area on Maids Causeway between the railings and road - not on a path. I got a ticket. I contested the ticket and was told i was parked adjacent double yellows so had to pay up. I pointed out the 20 bikes parked adjacent to the white zig-zags and asked why they didn’t get tickets and 3 points and the council said it was down to the police in enforce the zig zags but the council did the double yellows. :w00t: I also asked why 50 bicyles could be chained to the railings next to my bike and not receive a penalty, especially as they have to adhere to the Highway Code as much as I did and the council didn’t have an answer. So I’m doing the ‘discrimination’ thing and asking the adjudicator to consider my case… worth a try right? If they can park there and I can’t - that’s discrimination. If the police didn’t give out tickets to bikes and the council did - that’s not right either. Not that I want my fellow bikers to get points or fines… but I asked to police officers on duty to see where it said I couldn’t park there and they couldn’t. Meh!
I didn’t goto the Thames festival this year. my sister was peforming last year by Southwark (?) cathedral, she was one of the ho-down girls
They did the same at the brighton burn up-I must have seen 30 bikes with tickets, they were all parked on the 3 or 4 metre wide pavement causing no obstruction to pedestrians.
The wardens even carried elastic bands so they could attach the fines to the mirrors. Bwastrds!
Yeah,doubled there wages in commission
The reality is to park where it is legal to do so. end of story. Not a case of “them against us”, but just people doing their jobs. I’ve had a ticket for being illegally parked and deserved it. I paid up straight away, no contesting something you know is wrong.