Ticketing Motorcycles

Swampy3k

How easy is it for a trafficwarden to ticket a motorcycle? I am guessing in private supermarkets etc where they hire contractors who take the picture of your vehicle in situ and just send you a bill but traffic wardens use the older ticket system do they not?

Just asking as where I park in Glasgow it is choked for cars, (some of which are parked illegally but not in anyones way) there is a designated motorcycle bay but quite often there is a car in it, so would I be ticketed if I park just outside the bay in the illegal area?

Inch_High_2

You could be ticketed yes.

How easy is it to do? I would imagine no harder than a car.

pogofish

It is easy to ticket a bike but a lot of patrollers don't like doing it because a secure attachment on a bike is sometimes difficult and often leaves room to successfully challenge. This is where naked/unfaired bikes are great!

Personally I ued to park just beside bike bays blocked by vehicles or occupied by disabled drivers when their adjacent bays were taken and never got one - of course there is a risk that the car will move when you are there.

The time a police car stopped yet again in the bike bay and four of us hemmed it in with our bikes was quite funny - esp when the officers returned laden with supplies from a nearby bakery, presumably for the whole station!

londonTiger

wel i guess police won't push your bike over/out of the way.

Johno100

Inch_High wrote: »

You could be ticketed yes.

How easy is it to do? I would imagine no harder than a car.

I'm not sure about that, supermarket ANPR cameras that take a photo of the front of the vehicle entering and the rear leaving are really going to struggle with a motorbike.

Same goes for those speed cameras that face the oncoming traffic.

Inch_High_2

Johno100 wrote: »

I'm not sure about that, supermarket ANPR cameras that take a photo of the front of the vehicle entering and the rear leaving are really going to struggle with a motorbike.

Same goes for those speed cameras that face the oncoming traffic.

Did you bother to read the op before you jumped in?

Davie-G wrote: »

How easy is it for a trafficwarden to ticket a motorcycle? I am guessing in private supermarkets etc where they hire contractors who take the picture of your vehicle in situ and just send you a bill but traffic wardens use the older ticket system do they not?

Just asking as where I park in Glasgow it is choked for cars, (some of which are parked illegally but not in anyones way) there is a designated motorcycle bay but quite often there is a car in it, so would I be ticketed if I park just outside the bay in the illegal area?

Retrogamer

londonTiger wrote: »

wel i guess police won't push your bike over/out of the way.

From my experience of being around bikers, not many people will unless they want to risk a potentially violent confrontation.

fivetide

I've had tickets on the bike before.

One stuck in the nice wee pounch they use. It was for not displaying a tax disc. This is despite there clearly beign a tax disc affixed to the front forks.

A few letters later and ticket cancelled.

A week later, same thing except this time it rained so it was lucky that i noticed it in the gutter and wondered if it might be the same as before (you could see the puch was unopened) - yep and also cancelled with arecommendation that the wardens "look down on occasion" before wasting everyone's time writing pointless tickets.

Upshot - they can and they will ticket you. They'll also ticket people for parking in a bike bay though so flag one down (a warden) and get a fine slapped on the motor.

Arfa__

Many car parks only offer free bike parking in the designated bays, so I wouldn't past them to try and ticket you if you parked else where.

Of course, bike crime is rife and a great way to keep prying eyes off you bike is to put a cover over it. A basic lightweight one won't cost much and can easily be stashed in your top box/tank bag. Will totally cover your bike, keep all of it out of sight and stop any scrote messing with it, tampering with and sticking their grubby mitts on it. ;-)

pogofish

londonTiger wrote: »

wel i guess police won't push your bike over/out of the way.

Let them try - It was a solid old machine that had seen plenty miles and a few knocks - So not pristine.

And besides if they had, the local CCTV would have been questioned within minutes!

Norman_Castle

londonTiger wrote: »

wel i guess police won't push your bike over/out of the way.

Fantasizing about what you would do? Dream on.