Motorcycle Parking Etiquette

I sort of do the same. Generally I judge the lot by how cages are
parked. If it's sensable, I park politly. If not...I park at the end
of the parking space across the space. 8^) I might leave room for a
narrow bike to get in. Looks kind of like this...

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That way the idiots who start to pull in like it's a pit stop test for
F1 don't plow me over. I have dealing with insurance, police etc.
--
Keith

Posted by Uncle Vic on August 28, 2008, 1:45 am

>>I am returning to riding after a number of years and would like a

>>pointer on parking etiquette. Is it acceptable to pull into a taken

>>parking space if there is enough room for a second bike? What if

>>there is a parking meter involved? Personally, I wouldn't care if

>>someone shared a space with me but I don't want to step on any toes.

>> Thanks for your thoughts

> The last time this happened to me, I parked slightly to the left so

> the other guy could come in behind me to the left. This was at a

> Dunkin Donuts/Gas station type place here in NH.

> A minivan promptly pulled in next to me on the left.. an old beat up

> junker Ford Windstar and a woman in her mid sixties or so threw that

> passenger side door open and literally smashed in up against the

> fairing of my week old 07 ElectraGlide.. putting a nasty gouge and

> crack in the fairing. The whole bike shook.

> I was sitting on a table not 20 feet away trying to enjoy a coffee as

> I watched this happen. The woman then gently closed her car door and

> started walking towards the entrance as if nothing had happened. When

> I called her on it she gave me a dirty look and an "I did?!" and then

> walked away from me into the store. When she came out I was handing my

> insurance papers to the driver, her embarrassed son-in-law and

> demanding his papers. She suggested that "if" that was going to

> happen, then we better call the police. I quickly pulled out me cell

> phone, which changed her mind completely.

> $567 dollars later I have a new fairing and she has points against her

> insurance for the next 5 or so years.

> I HATE parking anywhere near cars. But if I have to, I park dead

> center in the spot and no one else gets to share that spot.

> Sorry for the long winded story, but I think it makes the point.

It does. I do the same, except when I'm travelling with a partner, whom
I'll share a space with. I don't trust anyone out there. Sometimes
there are opportunities to park on the sidewalk next to the building
you're visiting. I figure, if you don't leak oil, and you're not
blocking pedestrian traffic, what the hell. While my brother and I were
gearing up to leave a Target parking lot (from the sidewalk), a minimum
wager collecting shopping carts told us we can't park there. I replied,
"OK, we'll leave now." Right, we were leaving anyway.

--
Uncle Vic
04 Kawasaki Nomad 1500
92 Honda Highthawk 750

Posted by Outback Jon on August 28, 2008, 3:21 am

Uncle Vic wrote:

> It does. I do the same, except when I'm travelling with a partner, whom

> I'll share a space with. I don't trust anyone out there. Sometimes

> there are opportunities to park on the sidewalk next to the building

> you're visiting. I figure, if you don't leak oil, and you're not

> blocking pedestrian traffic, what the hell. While my brother and I were

> gearing up to leave a Target parking lot (from the sidewalk), a minimum

> wager collecting shopping carts told us we can't park there. I replied,

> "OK, we'll leave now." Right, we were leaving anyway.

At any big store, I use those nice, striped, "motorcycle spaces" at the
end of the row of cars nearest the door. Never been bothered there.

Although I won't use the ones near the handicapped spots, as I know some
people need extra space outside the doors of their cars to enter and
exit their vehicles.

--
"Outback" Jon - KC2BNE
outback_jon@ver.no.sp.am.izon.net
AMD Opteron 165 (@2.5) and 6.1 GHz of other AMD power...
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2006 ZG1000A Concours "Blueline" COG# 7385 CDA# 0157

Posted by Turby on August 28, 2008, 7:04 am

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:21:52 GMT, Outback Jon

>Uncle Vic wrote:

>> It does. I do the same, except when I'm travelling with a partner, whom

>> I'll share a space with. I don't trust anyone out there. Sometimes

>> there are opportunities to park on the sidewalk next to the building

>> you're visiting. I figure, if you don't leak oil, and you're not

>> blocking pedestrian traffic, what the hell. While my brother and I were

>> gearing up to leave a Target parking lot (from the sidewalk), a minimum

>> wager collecting shopping carts told us we can't park there. I replied,

>> "OK, we'll leave now." Right, we were leaving anyway.

When I get that, I tell them about the comments I get from other
shoppers who are pissed that I take up a full car space. Damned if you
do, damned if you don't.

>At any big store, I use those nice, striped, "motorcycle spaces" at the

>end of the row of cars nearest the door. Never been bothered there.

Most malls around here upgraded over the last decade. They put in
landscaping at the end spaces so you can't park there any more.

--
Turby the Turbosurfer

Posted by . on August 28, 2008, 10:17 am

wrote:

> At any big store, I use those nice, striped, "motorcycle spaces" at the

> end of the row of cars nearest the door. =EF=BF=BDNever been bothered the=

re.

Our bunch of senior citizen riders used to meet for coffee every
morning at a certain park on a hill overlooking the city.

We would park right in front of the snack bar, but the city decided to
designate two of *our* parking spaces as handicapped spaces.

So we took a can of white paint and divided four spaces into eight
motorcycle spaces. We used to park sixteen motorcycles in those spaces
on Sunday.

The parks department maintenance supervisor went along with us and cut
a stencil to paint "motorcycle parking only" on the curb.

As time went on and some of the old guys stopped riding, moved away,
passed on, etc., we started getting *cagers* trying to park in our
spaces.

If I was the first rider to arrive at our little parking lot, I would
park crossways, blocking the spaces so cagers couldn't park there.

One day a Hardley Ableson rider showed up, and he just had to park
*Harley-style", backing into the space.

He angrily told me that I was "blocking" two spaces.

I told him I had been parking there for 20 years, that they were OUR
spaces, and that our group had painted the lines...

He told me that he had been parking there for 20 years, and I told him
that I'd never seen him before.

Hardley riders. How do they get so screwed up in the head, anyway?

Another guy showed up on a Suzuki Intruder and tried to tell me that
some
Modified Motorcycle Association wannabe Hells Angel type had
complained about lack of motorcycle parking at city facilities and
that was why the motorcycle stalls existed.

I told that guy he was full of shit, that another rider and I had laid
out the stripes and painted them...

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