Don't ask any more stupid questions...

[Huw Beer Monster]

This question first involves a confession of sorts, so here goes.

I am medically banned from driving/riding anything, I used to go pillion on t'other halfs bike before it got SORNed and the bike was never used round town, only for events, so I have no experience or knowledge of the following, which is why this question popped into my head over a lunchtime pint...

If you're on your bike and you have to park in an area where it's pay and display, where the fcuk do you put the ticket?

/me awaits the comments :D

[cxdemon]

Wel down our way, we don't pay for parking, cos our councils nice (yeah right). but we do have special parking bays, with anchor points for locks etc. :p

[Yoda]

If you're on your bike and you have to park in an area where it's pay and display, where the fcuk do you put the ticket?

/me awaits the comments :D

A good point

also try finding somewhere to put your disabled parking badge and clock)........like it would be there when i come back

[Gypsy]

here bikes/trikes can tend to park pretty much anywhere

[Huw Beer Monster]

here bikes/trikes can tend to park pretty much anywhere

Don't move here then :)

[Mitch]

We're having a running battle with the council in Hastings (through Hastings MAG) over this one...

Their suggestion was to buy a ticket and put it in one of those Sandwich Bags - taped to the bike.

OK, not bad idea if you can stop someone nicking the bag...

... Better still if you actually bother to tell the traffic wardens!!!!! :rolleyes:

[poridge wog]

in york they have a special shackle for your bike and on the side is a metal plate and window you slide the ticket into and then put youre own lock through that, :cool:

[Nitrowing]

I ended up with the baliffs chasing me for £320 because of this...

I was staying in Plymouth and had parked the CBR on the pavement, locked up to a road sign. The hotelier informed me that the traffic wardens were a bit keen and that I should but a ticket - £2.20. I buy the ticket, stick it inside my fairing and go to bed.

Next morning I have a different ticket stuck to my bike - informing me that I have been fined £20 for not having a parking ticket and if I don't pay up in 2 weeks the fine will double. So I write to the council, explaining what had happened. They replied saying I should NOT have put the ticket on the bike but kept it with me!?!!

They refused to budge. I didn't pay. Fine doubled. I refused to pay - they took me to court and were awarded £92 for me to re-imburse them with.
I hummed and hahed - but paid up a couple of days before the due date (trust me I really did NOT want to pay the f'ing scum).

Then I started getting letters from baliffs in Birmingham saying I owe tem £210 for them calling at my house and me not being there (strange that, as I was still in Plymouth...). Then another letter stating £320 because they had called again...!

I contacted Mutchie about all this - he put me on to MAG friendly solicitors who took all my details and never got back to - but then, neither did the baliffs :)

[Bosun]

A good point

also try finding somewhere to put your disabled parking badge and clock)........like it would be there when i come back


there was a contest recently in some bike mags to try and design such a holder, dont know of result

round here there are lots of toe rags who nick them from cars..though thankfully have had no problems when girlfriend with me, and displaying her badge etc..

[Bosun]

as to parking ticket one, when had to do regualy used to put in spare tax disc holder, now have security bolted type no good