My Parking Spot...
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My Parking Spot...
Postby rdp_au » Wed May 01, 2013 10:42 am
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Re: My Parking Spot...
Postby JBark » Wed May 01, 2013 12:59 pm
Almost tempted to just leave my u-lock across the rack spot, but that is a pretty jerk thing to do, especially if the rack happens to fill up on a day I'm on leave or something.
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Postby jcjordan » Wed May 01, 2013 2:29 pm
I generally dont ride the good race bike into worjk but still take the time to wrap tape and a tube around the bar to prevent scratches. I also like to be able to leave my lock at work and know that I can easily access it.
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Postby queequeg » Wed May 01, 2013 2:42 pm
On the few occasions the spot has been used, I grab my lock and that rack then becomes my new home
My lock is too heavy to take home each day, so it stays at work, but does not prevent anyone from using the rack it is on.
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Postby Sparx » Wed May 01, 2013 3:12 pm
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Postby Summernight » Wed May 01, 2013 4:31 pm
We have those bike racks on the wall too - it is quite hard getting my bike into a spot when, on both sides of the rack I'm putting my bike on, there are huge handlebar-ed bicycles. I have to push them out of the way and do a bit of bike gymnastics. I think our racks were set 'road bike handlebar' distance apart, not MTB/uber hybrid sized.Lizzy wrote:We have the one-up, one-down Securabike racks. I picked an up-spot about halfway down one side and left my hulking great D-lock on it. I think my dominance has been successfully asserted since nobody's pinched my spot yet, but people have come in next door after me and bent my mirror back. How rudeness!
I have a particular rack I like to use (where I leave my d-lock), but I usually have to find somewhere else during summer as I get there around 9AM - I don't have to move around so much now with less people riding. Our building has about 20 bike racks in the entire building (and that's factoring in the 8 spaces for bikes on the 4 ground racks where you can fit two bikes on one rack). For a CBD building of around 20 floors I think that is woeful. I know one lady with a lovely pale pink Pinarello takes her bike upstairs and I wouldn't be surprised if others did the same thing.
We had a building-wide email sometime in summer telling everyone that the person who locked their bike to the basement stair banister was to move it immediately otherwise the lock would be cut and the bike moved. Whoever it was I felt sorry for them as there clearly wasn't any space left down there and they probably didn't think they could take their bike into their office.
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Postby skull » Wed May 01, 2013 5:13 pm
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Postby cp123 » Wed May 01, 2013 5:28 pm
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Postby queequeg » Wed May 01, 2013 8:24 pm
Yeah, same racks we have:-Lizzy wrote:We have the one-up, one-down Securabike racks. I picked an up-spot about halfway down one side and left my hulking great D-lock on it. I think my dominance has been successfully asserted since nobody's pinched my spot yet, but people have come in next door after me and bent my mirror back. How rudeness!
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Postby westab » Thu May 02, 2013 10:04 am
So we are all happy.
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Postby queequeg » Thu May 02, 2013 2:36 pm
That is the main cage and the visitor parking. We also have a second smaller cage for another 30 bikes, so all up there is theoretically parking for about 230 bikes.Summernight wrote:Okay, my building's don't look like that picture so they aren't what Lizzy is talking about. That is a nice set-up, Queequeg. Very jealous.
Building is 6-Star Green Rated, and I believe that lots of bike racks are a requirement to get the 6-Star rating, which was lucky for us I guess!
This was my bike parking at the old office:-
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Postby takeitasread » Sat May 04, 2013 8:07 pm
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Postby trailgumby » Sat May 04, 2013 11:24 pm
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Postby ZepinAtor » Sat May 04, 2013 11:45 pm
Holly racks Batmanqueequeg wrote: Yeah, same racks we have:-
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Postby twizzle » Thu May 16, 2013 1:09 pm
Only just saw this.skull wrote:Well now that I know where twiz parks, my goal is to steal his spot.
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Skull needs to be carefull. I have, on two occasions, "accidentally" fallen on an offenders tyre with a jewellers screwdriver. I also have a multi-tool and I am quite capable of turning someone's bike into bike components.
Re. the "accidental" incidents... it takes quite a bit to piss me off. Repeatedly taking over my space is one thing, adding insult to injury by then leaning your bike on top of mine or parking on the other side of the bar with your bike rubbing mine when I got there first begs for trouble.
And I know jcjordan has added some embrocation fluid (ie., simiar to "deep heat") to the chamois of someone who decided to take his spot and hang his sweaty knicks over the bike as well.
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Postby hannos » Thu May 16, 2013 1:29 pm
twizzle wrote:
And I know jcjordan has added some embrocation fluid (ie., simiar to "deep heat") to the chamois of someone who decided to take his spot and hang his sweaty knicks over the bike as well.
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Postby TraceyG » Thu May 16, 2013 3:38 pm
I remember, cough, splutter, driving to work a couple of months ago to discover that someone had parked in my car parking spot. But then I realised that I only drive to work one day a week now so I probably don't qualify for a car parking spot to call my own.
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Postby jcjordan » Thu May 16, 2013 6:15 pm
So my spot is right at the front door
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Postby TigerFilly » Thu May 16, 2013 10:30 pm
No-one has complained about me wheeling my bike across the reception carpet yet, but I did wonder if I might be pushing my luck this morning when I'd been riding on wet muddy paths.
I'm changing jobs in 10 days time, so will have to see what the bike parking situation is like. I know there is a shower at my new building, which my current work doesn't have. I peeked at the shower when I went for my job interview (have to get your priorities right) and it looked rather grotty.
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Postby casual_cyclist » Fri May 17, 2013 5:47 pm
rdp_au wrote:Uneventful run into work this morning. Wheeled the bike into the bike cage at work and found, gasp, someone had parked their bike in MY spot.
That's terrible! Luckily it's never happened to me.
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Re: My Parking Spot...
Postby jasonc » Sun May 19, 2013 3:38 pm
well as the cleaner at your new workplace, I'm sure you'll fix itTigerFilly wrote: I peeked at the shower when I went for my job interview (have to get your priorities right) and it looked rather grotty.
We're about to lose our bikeracks as they are putting in another building (where the current bikeracks are). I've been taking my bike up to the secure floor I work on and parking it in the foyer (I hang my clothes in there too). As 3 of the managers also ride and park their bikes up there too, no-one has said boo
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