NoToBikeParkingTax Demo - Mar 31

It's not the wire rope that's the problem (IMHO), it's the unprotected
posts holding them in place. The ropes simply guide you and your bike
to a steel post where the dismemberment/disembowelling can begin.

Oh, and that compulsory leg protector legislation, that was the most
dangerous too.

 

... If you haven't lost a limb or two already sliding down the serrated
cheese-wire.

Never understood this, were the leg protectors worn by the rider, or
the bike, like those old mopeds with pedals on ?

P.

 

it was on the bike, like a kind of leg version of handlebar muffs.

 

Ah thanks, what a wank idea.

I'm sure they'd be ok on some bikes, but purely at the owners
discretion, but I can't see them being inherently dangerous, unless
you got your leg trapped between it and the road.

Surely the fairing lower is akin to a leg protector anyway.

Paul.

 

Thank you, I reserve the right to give it as wide a berth as possible,
with or without JP's permission

Oh, and give him a swift kick in the pants next time you see him, we
miss him around these parts.

P.

 

Only a day to go and the weather is looking good.

Ace Cafe 3pm for 4:15pm
Trafalgar Sq 5pm for 6:15pm
Victoria St 7pm

Bring your friends.

http://www.notobikeparkingfees.com/events/

 

So, what happened? Everybody parked up, got bored and went home?

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/notobikeparkingtax/sets/72157616100642045/

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Grimly Curmudgeon

LOL! I'd forgotten about that. A tad overshadowed in the news
department, I suspect.

"**** off sonny, you're blocking our view of the preparations for the
real protest".

 

What with all the flourescent waistcoats being worn, it looks like some kind
of 'Ageing Raver Reunion'. ;-)

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Julian Bond

4,000 to 5,000, eh?

Impressive. You should have taken some photos of them instead of the
small crowd of a few hundred.

 

And not a burd in sight. So a Homosexual Ageing Raver Reunion.

--
TD
1991 VFR400R NC30 (black and red)
1993 Eunos Roadster (supercharged)
Coming soon: Lardy tourer (don't want to hex it)
Missing: SOB, Unreliable Italian exotica

 

ITYM a Road Captain convention.

 

Canny bit of income for the Council, though.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/notobikeparkingtax/3403065498/in/set-72157616100642045/

Bear? Is that you?

 

So, what Brainiac decided to hold a day of protest just a day or two
before all the skanky twats had plans to tear the City apart and hope to
be remembered?

 

What brainiac decided to hold the Westminster Council Policy and
Scrutiny Committee meeting where the future of the Motorcycle Parking
Charge would be discussed and changes proposed and argued a day or two
before the G20 meetings. Oh, right, that'll be Westminster Council then.
Because they'd said they'd make a decision on the future of the
"experimental" scheme in April and Mar 31st was the last possible date.