Motorcycle parking at Amex

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Garage_Doors

Originally the Swankers
Jun 28, 2008
11,790
Brighton
Been asking this for a while. No one at the club knows.
I'm planning to just park it with the bicycles.
 








rocker959

Well-known member
Jan 22, 2011
2,802
Plovdiv Bulgaria
Oh do please park anywhere you so desire darling !!!
 

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Drumstick

NORTHSTANDER
Jul 19, 2003
6,958
Peacehaven
If you find one it'll be a little VICTORY.
 








Twinkle Toes

Growing old disgracefully
Apr 4, 2008
11,138
Hoveside
I'd love to see a massive motorcycle parking area up there meself, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's HARLEY any at all. :shrug:
 






Superphil

Dismember
Jul 7, 2003
25,679
In a pile of football shirts
Why should motorbikes have any different arrangement for parking over cars?
 




binky

Active member
Aug 9, 2005
632
Hove
Agreed. Apparantly they never have to pay for parking anywhere, that just doesn't make sense?

Because there are comparatively fewer of them than cars, and they can ride around/over any barrier sufficient to stop a car, historically, it has not been cost effective to charge for M/C parking.
This is changing now, with Westminister leading the charge to extract ever more cash from motorists wallets by introducing charging for M/C parking, and other boroughs and cities following suit.

This, I think is a mistake. Motorcycles take a fifth of the road space, typically use half the petrol, and over their lifetime have circa a 10th of the carbon footprint of a car. Perhaps they should be encouraged rather than discouraged.
 


Drumstick

NORTHSTANDER
Jul 19, 2003
6,958
Peacehaven
Why should motorbikes have any different arrangement for parking over cars?

As stated above plus the fact that you can fit in alot of bikes into ONE car space.
 




Superphil

Dismember
Jul 7, 2003
25,679
In a pile of football shirts
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This, I think is a mistake. Motorcycles take a fifth of the road space, typically use half the petrol, and over their lifetime have circa a 10th of the carbon footprint of a car. Perhaps they should be encouraged rather than discouraged.

Car drivers are taught to give bikes plenty of space, so they certainly take up more than a fifth of the roadspace, unless they ride recklessly and squeeze into gaps by overtaking and dipping into the space the car driver is leaving between hm and the car in front. As for MPG, many many bikes run at lower than 30MPG, and some far lower, and emissions aren't all that great, especially those with the 'trick' exhausts. Granted, smaller bikes use less fuel, and have lower emissions, but all in all, if it is percieved that the motorbike takes up less space, then charge them less, not nothing.
 


Chester Drawers

New member
Apr 15, 2004
1,013
Belair
This, I think is a mistake. Motorcycles take a fifth of the road space, typically use half the petrol, and over their lifetime have circa a 10th of the carbon footprint of a car. Perhaps they should be encouraged rather than discouraged.

Yeah quite right too ... as a Blue Badge Holder who would have to "pay" to park my Car at Falmer I'm more than happy to struggle to the ground via some other method just to see some motorcyclist roll up, step off and stroll in ....
 


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