Bike Parking at Heathrow T3

I'm meeting someone at Heathrow T3 tomorrow morning, and according to
www.motorcycleparking.co.uk and the UKRM archives at google groups, bike
parking is free on the ground floor of the NCP short-stay car park.

This is great, but what is the procedure for getting into and out of the
car park on a bike? From memory, there are a bunch of ticket barriers
into which you need to insert a "paid" ticket to get out in a car. I'm
assuming mounting the pavement and tearing past the barriers is not the
thing to do and might attract unwanted attention from the airport plod.

Also, anybody have any ideas where the bike bays are in the T3 car park?

Ta.

 

The gaps between the barriers are designed to be wide enough for lean,
environmentally friendly vehicles to pass through without stopping. You
may attract more attention by trying to stop and inserting tickets.

Ground floor, facing the entrance to the terminal. Plus some extra
spaces near the exit, if memory serves correctly.

 

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:03:45 +0100,

Smashing. Thanks very much.

 

Well that was a 'kin weird day. Turned up for my Heathrow meeting at
6:30am, the bike parking situation being precisely in accordance with
the FOAK (it's good here, isn't it?).

Found the bloke who I was supposed to be meeting with who'd flown in
from China en-route to Germany for the meeting. Discovered it was
actually two blokes + luggage who were expecting to conduct the
"meeting" (which turned out to be of ****-all benefit to me) while I
chauffeured them across London to a clearly-much-more-important meeting
in East London (in the car that I'd left at home), because they weren't
going on to Germany after all now. After I paid for their cab back to my
house and got them in my car, they then had the cheek to whinge, in a
mixture of English and Mandarin Chinese (at least I assume that's what
it was), all the way across London about being late for their meeting
because they obviously thought East London was a 10 minute drive from
the airport (well, one of them whinged, the other was busy turning green
and threatening to be travel-sick on my back seat).

What a truly magical day. I am going to get ver' ver' drunk now.