Bike Parking

[leethal]

I started a new job in a new part of town today, and as I scoped for a safe place to throw down a stand I noticed that there was a supermarket directly across the street...complete with monitered boom-gate customer parking.
But get this...motorcycles park for free! Right next to the ticket box! In their own little painted slots.
Its about time city councils invested tax payer dollars in easing congestion on the roads and realising that a bike doesnt need to buy a whole car space when parking.
So I struck up a conversation with the operator about my sweet taste in parallel twins, and he said he'd check on it from time to time.
Man...I hope he's one of the good guys....


Sure beats the paranoia I developed since that time some A-hole reversed on it in the street.

Lee

[xsleo]

sounds like a deal. do they provide a spot you could lock a chain to for a little more security?

[scotts]

At my job they recently painted up about 6 or 7 of the sweetest, closest spots and divided them up for motorcycle parking. They even moved the carpoolers down that many spots.
It's all part of a clean air initiative, but they also focus on gas mileage, car pooling, etc.

[10ecjed]

We also have 10 motorcycle spaces behind the building that I work in, right next to the handicap spaces. Sweet. They have been there for many years.

[Fry]

The factory I work at has 2 car size spots for motorcycle parking 10 bikes can fit in them as long as the old fart a-hole doesn't get there with his Hondamold wing to take up one hole spot parking it right in the middle like he's parking a car, there would probably be more room if it were a Honda civic.

[jscribner]

Last summer I parked quite a ways out in our hospital's parking lot when I came in for some after-hours surgery (I'm a surgery nurse). I didn't feel real comfortable with it so far out when I saw some kids roaming the parking lot. I went out between cases in my scrubs, hopped onboard, reached down and opened the petcock. Fired it up and started heading closer. Felt something wet down my leg- holy crap! Someone had yanked my fuel line loose, and I was soaked in gasoline down my left leg and leaving a trail of gas behind me. I replaced the wire hose clips the next day with real hose clamps. A nurse I worked with said, "Oh yeah, I saw that on "Wild Hogs"...." I never would've made the connection to the movie, but some little bungholio did...
John Scribner

[leethal]

Well, my situation just got even better. Now I have a hidden spot behind the wheely-bins down the side of the restaurant, beside the side entrance. Now the council can eat my a$$.

[82sidehack]

Where I work they designated a special motorcycle parking area. It even has a concrete pad so your stand won't sink in. Unfortunately they put it up against a brick wall on the west side of the building. By mid-afternoon it's so hot you can't touch anything!! Typical cager lack of thought. I park my 650SJ on the east side of a different building and when I'm ready to leave it's sitting in the shade.

[grepper]

My co-worker starts at 7:00am and always parks his bike in a spot real close to the building (those spots are gone by the time I get to work) and leaves room for two other bikes

[MNRider]

In the last year or so the amount of people riding to work has actually about tripled . Before that there was only one spot to park bikes. You could get two in there, but the front guy was kind of stuck until the last one left. So, the plant environmental manager put up some cones to block off the last two parking spots in the front . The only bad thing is that it is tar. I had the bike tip over last spring out there . Since then I now have a pad that I use.

[Fry]

I always used a crushed beverage can then I park somewhere soft.

[xsleo]

I carry a 4x6 piece of plywood for under the stand.

[stevesemti]

I am so completely lazy that I have a piece of string tied to my plastic kick stand disk, which is tied to the zipper of my tank bag. I too had my bike tip over on hot tar, and swore it'll never happen again...
So, when I arrive, I pull the disk out, throw it down, can maneuver it with the string or toe. When I leave, I straddle the bike, lift it off the kick stand, pull the string, stow the disk in my tank bag and off I go!

[jscribner]

My employer is in the midst of a 67 million buck renovation. Parking is at a premium. So motorcycles are not allowed. Well, let's say completely discouraged. After being told not to park in a car space (which I hate to do anyway), I finally got administration to create "motorcycle only" parking. They gave us (at least 6 employees who ride our bikes to work) a space 3' wide up against the maintenance barn where, in the winter, they park the snow blade. You guessed it. Crusted with salt, lots of slippery tiny gravel and debris, etc. After several "exchanges" with the maintenance director (who's acting on the authority of the CEO), I finally got about 5-6 spaces created, but I'm going to have to get a pushbroom out and clean them up. Worst place in the world to park your bike....
John Scribner

[remi]

My boss lets me park right in the warehouse.