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My Parking Spot...
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Re: My Parking Spot...
Postby gpz1100 » Tue May 21, 2013 5:17 pm
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Re: My Parking Spot...
Postby Summernight » Tue May 21, 2013 5:30 pm
gpz1100 wrote:ive got a krtyptonite chain and lock on my parking spot,although i never use it.Its just locked to the rack,signifying my spot.That seems to be parking etiquet at my work.Does anyone enviously check out what else is parked?.its great when theres something new and expensive you havent seen before.
Other people's locks are ignored at my building and just shoved to the back of the rack.
I most definitely ogle other people's bikes.

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Re: My Parking Spot...
Postby eldavo » Tue May 21, 2013 5:37 pm
Apart from a couple high end examples, I usually see a lot of average bikes and appreciate mine all the more =D
re: locks, that's the main reason I return to the same spot, same routine, some regulars mix it up and take 'my spot' but there's a 3 way split so can just be a pain to dig my locks out from around their wheels/chain/derailleurs.
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Re: My Parking Spot...
Postby twizzle » Tue May 21, 2013 6:29 pm

I can only commute by bike two days a week now... so I have removed my lock and the dead tubes that protected my paint. From now on I'll use one of the spots that the "transient" people use.
Sent from my iThingy...
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Postby twizzle » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:49 am
A couple of people made the mistake of using it last week, I just moved the bikes (there were spare spaces around it!

...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
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Re: My Parking Spot...
Postby Summernight » Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:36 am
twizzle wrote:I took my spot back about a month ago. Re-decorated with tubes, put the lock back on.
A couple of people made the mistake of using it last week, I just moved the bikes (there were spare spaces around it!), the issue hasn't recurred.

So they hadn't locked their bikes onto your rack? That was their fatal mistake.

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Re: My Parking Spot...
Postby eldavo » Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:17 pm
Same deal loads of vacant space. I thought you could have a lot of fun with someone of that nature... but the colleagues escalated the possibilities far beyond what I thought was fair play =D
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Re: My Parking Spot...
Postby twizzle » Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:01 pm
Summernight wrote:twizzle wrote:I took my spot back about a month ago. Re-decorated with tubes, put the lock back on.
A couple of people made the mistake of using it last week, I just moved the bikes (there were spare spaces around it!), the issue hasn't recurred.
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So they hadn't locked their bikes onto your rack? That was their fatal mistake.
Not really... once or twice I might have accidentally fallen on a tyre with a sharp object when people didn't get the hint that the space was already claimed.
...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
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