Can anyone tell me why is it when parking in london, if you leave a gap bigger than 4 inches, when you return you always find some shitty little scooter wedged in.:crazy:
no matter where i park i always have some idiot setting off my alarm, bending back my mirrors or parking so close it takes me 10 minutes to get out:angry: 
sod off and find a proper parking space
lolā¦popcorn anyone?
To be honest mate, if that is your black gixer I would not be parking my bike in those parking baysā¦
I would not leave my K8 out on the street, only a scooter 
yeah thats my K8
gonna see about getting a comuter bike so it doesnt matter if it gets knocked about abit
no way im getting on a scooter:rolleyes:
Itās usually because some tw@t on a bigger bike moves the scooters around, likely pushing them into yours, in order to make space for their own.
I usually find that it`s the commuter riders who park like that, i ride a scooter and i always pak it properly and when someone tries to park there scoot on top of mine i get peed off.
Nail, Hammer, spot on. There is a huge divide here, bikers versus commuters. The cheap scooter is a means of avoiding congestion charging and nipping around London for the besuited/tracksuited commuteristi.
Now the reality is that 2% of these become bikersā¦ This is what happened to me! 
I had a moped for commuting & hated it - then I got a 125 & hated it - did DAS + a 1200 = POWER MAD BIKER!!! We all start somewhere, but the real issue is basic courtesy which is severely lacking, Iāve had 3 bikes damaged in parking bays due to scooters being rammed onto my bike ā whether by the scooteristi or another biker is irrelevant.
I walked past mine at lunchtime today on the way to Pret and was so amazed that I even took a picture. Mineās the Suzi in the middle. On its centre stand. Which needs a dirty great shove to get down from. Which needs plenty of side space to achieve. And which currently has some sewing machine on stabiliser wheels wedged 3 millimetres from it.
Duncan
(Hope I did this right, never tried to add a picture before.)
my point exactly:)
Maybe Iāll go and superglue a note to his paintworkā¦ but it might not actually be the owner that parked it like that, I often see other riders pushing scooters out of the way so they can squeeze in. Pointless - itās not even as if weāre short of parking in EC2.
So I suppose you were also outraged at the silly arse on the scrambler-style bike whoād parked his bike LEANING on the scooter to the left of it?
Iād say your photo shows a typical parking bay in London. Plenty of people parking inconsiderately, BOTH BIKES AND SCOOTERS.
Itād be lovely if the world was arranged so as to fit in with our narrow-minded stereotypes, but itās not like that so please stop dissing scooters indiscriminately. Itās not very considerate of other people on the forum, and itās also bloody stupid.
On a positive noteā¦ at least a scooter is fairly easy to man-handle out of the way if it has been parked/moved very close to your bikeā¦whereas moving a badly parked Harley, for instance, can be quite tricky.
That looks like any/many bike space in central Londonā¦
Im sure there is more room for a scooter in there somewhere lol!
God Iām so glad I donāt park in central london, though having said that the bike bay at work can get crowded (on a sunny day at least :D) There itās the scrambler that takes up loads of space by leaning miles over that gets on my wickā¦
One day I parked considerately, halfway into a puddle so I wouldnāt crowd the other users, came back to find the puddle had grown, crap from the puddle was all over the scoot and the plastic they use to rope the bike area off had blow onto my scoot andmelted itself onto my exhaustā¦ Thatās what you get for being considerate!!
I ride a scrambler style bike and have no option but to lean it over as that is the way itās made.So please stop dissing scramblers indiscriminately. Itās not very considerate of other people on the forum, and itās also bloody stupidā¦and you smell 
The best and only place for a scooter, is in the nearest Trash Can! :Whistling:
Slight typo, mate. Other than that, I thought your reply was quite funny :P:D:)
the problem is laziness.
I dont think its any particular āgroupā of people who are guilty, its just sheer laziness and people being too lazy to go and find another bay to park in when one bay is full. The best way around this is for the council to paint lines to stipulate how many bikes get into a bay. my office have lines painted in our car park and it works fineā¦ anyone who is off the line or out of the bay - give them a ticket
Contraversial Post Alert
Since Westminster Council introduced Ā£20 per month parking charges, the bike bays have been gloriously empty, even at 08:45, when it used to be nigh-on impossible to get a space.
Itās only been running for 2 weeks, but it might turn out that Ā£240 per year on parking might pay for itself on T-Cut and blood pressure tablets!
