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Rant: How scooters park!??! Why the lack of consideration?!?

Rent a garage space and keep your bike off the street. I couldn't imagine leaving my motorcycle parked and unchained in the wilds of Downtown SF. Do a little digging and you can come up with something not too expensive and not too far away. Anyway, that's what I do--I rarely park my motorcycle on the street.
 
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I live and work downtown and I see that shit all the time. I've also seen scooters parked at an angle in such a way as to take up 2 parking spots! :wtf
 
There's a guy that, on occasion parked his KLX practically on my bike. First time was with my Suzuki and I went ahead and shrugged it off, second time I left him a nastigram. Third time I was on my FZ1 and he put a big scratch on the back of the mirror and even hit it hard enough to knock it back. So I left him a second nastigram and pulled his plug wire up enough that there's no way it would start and run correctly but still looked like it was on. Freakin' jerk. I saw him once before all this and he even looked like one of those complete assholes. That third time to get out I had to roll the FZ out into the street just to get on the damn thing and that's no easy thing to do during rush hour.

Now I just pay for parking in a garage and I don't have that problem anymore.
 
AbsolutEnduser said:
I'm with this one-- unfortunately or fortunately it might have been a third party that moved the scooter and threw it onto your bike--- because the Lambretta schooter had been too close to their car/bike?

The only reason people outside of the city don't have this problem though, is because there aren't enough people there... otherwise you'd see how everyone would park like crap on top of your bike there as well
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yeah, i thought about that but his wheel was locked; I had tried to turn his wheel myself just so I could access my trunk so, I'm not sure that could have been the reason. In anycase, it was actually a car that was originally parked on the other side of the scoot when I got there in the morning and it looked like there was plenty of space between the two. I always make sure there's enough space around the bike/scoot next to me just as to be sure they don't have to cramp my space later on for whatever reason.

But yeah, it is what it is....I just wish some people had more respect but
that's just City living I guess...Don't even get me started on the people that find the need to knock bikes over, steal moto covers, spit on seats or crack heads tampering with spark plugs, all of which has happened to me in the last 2 years i've moved back to the City; That's a whole other issue.

I would love to park my bike indoors but it's the City, just way to expensive to park all day. Plus, that's what metered motorcycle parking is for...if these people weren't such douches, it wouldn't be so bad.
 
I feel for you. Scooter riders do this all the time around the Cal campus. I just drag the offending scooter into the street and leave it. So, if you ever see a scooter 12 feet from the curb on Bancroft in Berkeley you know that's the asshole that blocked me in...

*btw, just enough to get the attention of a LEO but not enough to hinder traffic...
 
kick it over, and if you have time do the same to the owner. i'm not promoting violenece ,i just think an ass kicking, reminds some of us the day to day things they we often forget. wich is manners and consideration to others. can i get a amen
 
While we're ranting about scooters...I gotta say I want to fucking knock half of the retards around here in the South Bay off their scooters. They've appeared like a swarm, do not know how to fucking ride and they are driving me nuts. I think the only thing keeping these morons alive is the fact that they're going so damn slow that if things go bad they can just jump off and walk.

Yesterday took the cake. I'm riding down a fairly major two lane residential street off el camino in a line of cars, doing at or just over the 35 mph speed limit, when asshole scooter rider on his brand new, still with paper plates scooter comes up from behind and decides to pass us all in the bike lane! Rides the whole street doing 45 in the bike lane, then just as it opens up to three lanes at El Camino, he slows and shoots over between two cars into the left turn lane. Fucking idiot.

Not sure if that or the guy who decided he didn't want to wait for the light on his scooter last week and used the crosswalks to get around the intersection was more retarded.
 
my first instinct would be to leave my lock on his scooter, that's just the first thing that came to mind.
 
tuxumino said:
my first instinct would be to leave my lock on his scooter, that's just the first thing that came to mind.
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I would laugh in a schadefreude sort of way if someone else had moved the scooter out of a motorcycle spot to park their bike their, and then you put your lock on their scoot. They come out, and their bike is moved and has a lock on it. I don't think i'd be able to do anything but :rofl at that point if it happened to me. :laughing

Maybe cry a little too. :laughing
 
Theres always a sticker for an occasion like this:

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tuxumino said:
my first instinct would be to leave my lock on his scooter, that's just the first thing that came to mind.
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Hey, that was my idea!

I've thought about this before, but I'd have to be really, really pissed to do it as you're seriously f'ing up someone's day.
 
KROSSOVER said:
yeah, i thought about that but his wheel was locked; I had tried to turn his wheel myself just so I could access my trunk so, I'm not sure that could have been the reason. ...
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No no, I meant -- maybe somebody lifted and moved his scooter. You don't need to unlock the wheel for that. Try it sometime, if a scooter is blocking you-- you can lift the end then the front, and move it, etc.
 
Moike said:
Next time one of you guys are wedged in behind or in front of my Outback when I'm parked...

I'm just going to give you a love tap to get you out of my way so I can get clear of the spot I'm parked in.

IT'S JUST A MOTORCYCLE, LOLZ
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tuxumino said:
my first instinct would be to leave my lock on his scooter, that's just the first thing that came to mind.
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:rofl
Perfect! No harm to the scooter/bike and you can leave a note telling them why they were spanked.
 
Buy some cheap locker style padlocks. Keep one under your seat. When Scotty Scooter parks on top of your bike lock one to his front rotor and leave a note with clues as to where the key might be hidden near the bike. Give the key to a homeless guy and tell him the guy who owns the scooter will pay him a $5 parking fee to unlock the bike.

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