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Tower18CHI wrote:This happened to me on the street once. I parked for just a few minutes, and I was kind of an "O Ring" in retrospect--I parked parallel to the curb rather than perpendicular.

When I came out of my buddy's apartment, I couldn't find my bike. Thought it was stolen. This wasn't a parking lot, this was a city street, so it's like "wtf, it was right there."

Turns out, someone (or someones, as it was locked) picked it up, carried it over the curb (city curb, so more than 6" tall) and left it in the grass leaning against a streetlight.

I was FURIOUS. Not only was it on the side stand in the grass, which is a recipe for disaster, but parking in such a spot is illegal and could have gotten me towed. If I had remembered SPECIFICALLY where I parked, I was thinking seriously about doing a little something-something to the car parked in my place.

you shuld have done something. thats effing rude. worse than moving it to more pavement. ping pong ball in the gas tank works nicely.

Well, I hope it was not meant to be hurtful intent but just some ignorant play prank from some friendly collegues from work who now know better. It sometimes astonishes me that so many people consider motorcycles more closely associated to bicycles than to motorvehicles and treat them as such I was even told not to park at/by the curb at my condo complex because the room is needed for cars and that I should park my bike at the front of my parking space perpendicular to my car so I can fit both in (all condo's have 1 parking space per unit, the rest is on street) I was flaberghasted. They expect me to maneauver almost 400lb object while trying to avoiding my car parked there just so it won't take up a spot on the street. I told them to stuff it. I said to them that if I had to get licensed, insured and obey the traffic laws then it's has the same rigts for parking it

At work there's a pretty big motorcycle parking area, about 12 bikes wide (side-by-side) by 2 bikes deep (end-to-end).

I've counted 17 bikes in it, and that was before I got mine fixed and started riding to work.

It's got a long curb behind it and a short one on one side.

Usually the bikes are parked with just enough room to stand them up and get on.

And I can't figure out how all the people in the back row ever get their bikes out when the front row fills up.

I for sure never take a back-row space. Because I don't know how I'm getting my bike out without monkeying with someone else's.

Could get interesting when the weather cools off and everyone starts riding again.