I park infront of a building IF there is a bike rack, and that is what I park beside. I had crotch rockets for awhile and they aren't much bigger than a bicycle

I don't mind taking up a full parking spot, i know as a 4 wheel vehicle driver i don't think twice to seeing a bike parked in a spot.

i will tell you my story i am not proud or embarsed it was just the way it was i parked at a steakhouse in NC and like all or alot of other bikers i have always used the slashed lines to park and i would never take a parking place for a disabled person intentionaly but i parked and went into eat as i came out a van was puled up beside me were i had parked letting a little girl out in a weelchair i said would you like me to move and an old lady said back to me "makes ya feel bad dont it " and i was puzzled i thought to myself well yes i do feel bad becouse she is disabled but she was refering to were i had parked i had parked in an aera that was intended for the ramp to come down in beside the parking place heck i didnt no i no now but you see what i am saying is i was ignarant to the fact or what was going on and i am sure alot are if you do not have to use the places you might not understand all the types of ways they need for parking i felt bad but then again i didnt becouse if i had Known i wouldnt have parked there the best thing to do is just find a parking place and forget those lines man then every one is happy except the man who cant hastle you wit a ticket : )

ravenscar wrote:
i will tell you my story i am not proud or embarsed it was just the way it was i parked at a steakhouse in NC and like all or alot of other bikers i have always used the slashed lines to park and i would never take a parking place for a disabled person intentionaly but i parked and went into eat as i came out a van was puled up beside me were i had parked letting a little girl out in a weelchair i said would you like me to move and an old lady said back to me "makes ya feel bad dont it " and i was puzzled i thought to myself well yes i do feel bad becouse she is disabled but she was refering to were i had parked i had parked in an aera that was intended for the ramp to come down in beside the parking place heck i didnt no i no now but you see what i am saying is i was ignarant to the fact or what was going on and i am sure alot are if you do not have to use the places you might not understand all the types of ways they need for parking i felt bad but then again i didnt becouse if i had Known i wouldnt have parked there the best thing to do is just find a parking place and forget those lines man then every one is happy except the man who cant hastle you wit a ticket : )

I might have a different perspective to this subject. My Father had Lou Gehrig's Disease and we would park in the disabled spot for his benefit. It always made me angry to see someone park in a disabled spot or even in the stripped part. It made it dificult to get in and out of the car and maneuver his wheelchair.
I see people park in a disabled spot to run in a get a cup of coffee at the local 7/11. There is nothing right about it. From my perspective, the fine isn't enough.
A little walk isn't going to hurt most of us.

I learned my lesson years ago. Parked on the asphalt in front of a car dealership by the chain they had stretched in front of the cars. Came out to a ticket, come to find out it was the "sidewalk" and the dealer knew it! After that I only park where I am sure it is a space. Well, except that time I ran in to my buddies apartment to open it up so I could shove his shovelhead chopper in the living room garage. Unfortuantely the city yards were next door and a bike cop who was going off shift was merrily writing me a ticket. Between those two I only park in marked spaces and I look real carefully for signs saying I can't (good luck figuring those out in San Francisco by the way).

pat2ride wrote:
I might have a different perspective to this subject. My Father had Lou Gehrig's Disease and we would park in the disabled spot for his benefit. It always made me angry to see someone park in a disabled spot or even in the stripped part. It made it dificult to get in and out of the car and maneuver his wheelchair.
I see people park in a disabled spot to run in a get a cup of coffee at the local 7/11. There is nothing right about it. From my perspective, the fine isn't enough.
A little walk isn't going to hurt most of us.

Okay... Now this definitely makes me step back and re-evaluate. I definitely wouldn't park next to a handicapped section. I've never, not even once, parked IN a handicap space. I always kinda' thought of it as bad karma, just like being perfectly healthy and goofing around in a wheelchair.

At Walmart, there's always a little section of striped area at the end of a parking row, and that's what I usually park in, on the occasions that I can't avoid going to Walmart. (Honestly, I'd almost rather have my eyeballs sandpapered...)

Speaking of which: Why is it that every time I go to Walmart, I have a specific item in mind, and twenty minutes later, I'm walking around with my eyes all glazed, huffing the Stupid Gas that they pipe through the a/c ducts, holding a million items except for the one that I went there for, in the first place. After five minutes in that place, I turn into a Walmartian... *cue Twilight Zone theme...*

And how about every dang time I go to Walmart, I hear some kid screaming like they're having their fingernails removed with a hot Dremel? What's up with that? Maybe going to Walmart is like the new punishment, or something.

"You'd better shape up and act right, or else we're going to Walmart!! Do you hear me, mister?! WALMART!!"

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"

now that I'm looking around.. there are diffrent color crosshatches. I wonder if color changes the price of the ticket?

I never park in any stripped area. I figure its stripped for a reason and wasn't designed as motorcycle parking area. I'm a good boy

Park your bike at one of our Walmarts and everything that isn't red loctited on will be gone when you come out.

That would suck if you went in to buy red loctite!