OK…can anyone tell me where I stand with this.
Given parking ticket by some knob in Chiswick…and he writes down the colour of my bike as being black (its dark blue)…I have been trying to get out of paying on a technicality here…but the wankers at the dept of “wankers r us” are saying the colour of the bike is subjective!!!
Anyone know anything that might be helpful? 
You could try and wriggle out of it by saying your bike has had the number plate cloned but I suspect the traffic enforcement will then look at CCTV at which time your life could become quite difficult. As per the other post today if you were away from the bike and the ticket is valid then you may need to cough up. If there are mittigating circumstances then you may have a case. What was the situation re your parking?
No mitigating circumstances…was paying my Orange bill…have parked there a zillion times before but suddenly some twat in a uniform decides to slap her with a ticket…
Grin and bear it I am afraid. Just think that you are helping to fund a new job for someone in the council! Be nice if it went back into the roads but I dont think so.
Trick I’ve found that works is you buy a ticket like you should, but you take the ticket with you.
The warden gets all wet and gushy when they find a bike with no ticket on it and they slap on the Penalty Notice dreaming of their extra bonus that month.
When the I return I take the Penalty Notice, and photocopy it with 10 copies of the Ticket I bought. I then spend months sending them rude letter saying, listen you scumbag money grabbing barstewards I paid, wjhy am I getting a ticket? Here’s the proof.
Its not fair to the warden, but I call it revenge for all teh wardens who’ve done me for being ina space for 30 seconds and doing me, when legally htey’re obliged to give me 2 minutes to check I’m actually parked and not delivering something.
Life’s not fair, its a circus and I wanna be the monkey!
The colour thing is unlikely to work I’m afraid - we just had an ajudicator’s decision back about a parking ticket which we got for our car. The attendant didn’t serve the ticket, and also got the colour as purple instead of green. I thought the colour error would make it pretty conclusive, but the adjudicator said that since it was in the evening it was understandable that they got the colour wrong - so I’m guessing dark blue vs black in the daytime would get a similar response.
We were victorious in the end with our appeal - but only cos the attendant didn’t get the tax disc number 
Look at what happened to me at hein gericke saturday? i bought a burger went into hein gericke,came out and they had clamped my bike…had to pay £114 to release it, cos i didnt stay on the Burger King premises, let alone cars were parked there that were not using the place but no clamps on them? Still thinking about it, i should have let em take my bike away…cos i wouldnt have gone for ride on sunday on it and hit that damn pothole that catapulted me and bike through the air !!
Agree that i dont think you are going to win this one on the colour thing though? They stuff us all in the end anyway!
Had the dealers come and access damage on my bike today, before he left, he charged me £20 for doing so…and yet i am about to spend thousands with them on fixing my bike back together !!! 
Cheeky gits!!!
Ask for it back in the final bill if they do the work.
You have waaaaay too much time on your hands ! 
