Westminster council now charges for motorcycle parking

http://www.westminster.gov.uk/trans...park/vehicletype/motorcycle/chargingintro.cfm

I think it's absurd: it's a huge disincentive not to use a means of
transportation which would greatly decongest the roads and the tube.
What do you think? How many council do you know charge for motorcycle
parking in the UK? As far as I know, Westminster is the only one in
London which does

 

AFAIK Manchester also charges for motorcycle parking.
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Richard

XJ900S
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Wigan does, but there are plenty free spaces for bikes, in Manchester.

Bolton doesn't charge and if there are no bike bays available on a car
park, you can use a car space for free... and the time limit on some
car parks doesn't apply!

 

I've never paid to ditch my bike in Manchester. There may be a fee if
you use a car pay&display space but you can walk to most places from any
of the free bays.

What does etiquette say about use of spaces in car parks marked up as
'free for bikes' but a disabled person has parked in the marked bay
(with security rail thing) for motorcycles? I left my bike in an
adjacent space, but well 'in' the space iyswim, I didn't want some idiot
swinging a car into the 'apparently empty' void and finding my bike too
late.

 

Eee by gum
in't it fun
livin' oop 'ere in
Bowt"un"?

(I'll get me coat, like


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Let their tyres down, of course! ;-)

Or....

.... park the bike right up against the door - give 'em summat to think
about.

 

Well, it could be a disabled biker parking there out of habit...


....but most bikers are cunts, so break his mirrors, grease his wiper blades,
superglue his keyholes, ram a spud up his exhaust, let down his tyres and
lodge a dead rat in his exhaust manifold. That'll learn the fucker.

 

Yes, but what if you to park your bike in Wigan? It's a long way to walk
from Manchester just to get a free space.

 

Don't you have "Park & Ride" down theere?

Park the bike, hop on a tram (or walk on if you've got two legs) and you're
sorted.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

**** off somewhere else then you freeloading ****.

 

Foggy.

 

And he's back. How was the IoM?

 

Champ sent me a photo of a 1986 350 Powervalve

 

http://www.champ.org.uk/bikes/images/YPVSOutsideTraff.jpg

Good, innit?

 

**** off with your pictures, will you. I'm getting more and more
tempted to buy another shiteoldstroker.

 

<keeps schtum>

 

That's OK, you can sell it on anytime, right?

 

heh.

This thing just looked *so* perfect in the streetlights outside the
pub that I glanced at it and didn't think twice. And then, my brain
ticked over, and I thought "hang on, it's not actually 1986 any more".

The guy riding it said his son had bought it off ebay, in that
condition, for 1400 quid.

 

<wrings hands furiously and adopts strange facial ticks>

I can give them up anytime, just you wait and see.

 

What were you doing when taking the photo, it's all blurred.