Someone hit my bike!

[VEGASRIDER]

Hey Travis, how did you park your bike? Was it backed in, where the front is facing out of the stall or was it parked with the back end facing out?

For what it's worth, you are always better to park your bike in the midddle to the rear end of the stall with your front facing out towards the stall.

Your bike is more visible facing the front because it's larger, versus the rear. Parking the bike in the middle to rear of the stall will allow a buffer zone in the event a cager backs up and doesn't see your bike. Most people who back up will utilize the extra space behind them because it makes backing up a lot easier. Somre riders prefer parking their bike towards the front of the stall to inform other drivers that the stall is occupied. However, you are then very vulnerable from vehicles backing up. I'd rather take my chances having a cager see my bike driving forward, rather than relying to see my bike backing up.

You ever wonder why all the cars that are parked by Valets are backed in?

Reason being there is less conflict when you drive forward rather than backing up.

With that in mind, I will always gamble and park my bike in the middle to rear of the stall facing out, rather than the very front in the 2% chance that you find me parking in a parking lot.

 

[DefyInertia]

sorry to hear.

we need to ride soon. I did bear mtn road the other day and it was pretty sweet, if a little bumpy.

 

[Davey]

Ah man that sucks! Glad it seems to be not too bad and you'll be working it out with the guy.

I parked mine up once at home in a gated complex (it was a pretty swanky place to live I must say, and most people who lived there were loaded). I admit I could have parked it better but to come out of my place to go to work in the morning and see my bike laying on it's side was not a pretty sight!

No one tried to find who owns it, no note was left, so many people must have seen it before me and no-one tried to pick it up or anything! I was furious! Luckily I didn't have too much damage either - some v small scratches on the fairing, a bent fairing mount, a bent brake lever and some v small scratches on the engine casing.

 

[CHEMIKER]

Hey Travis, how did you park your bike? Was it backed in, where the front is facing out of the stall or was it parked with the back end facing out?

For what it's worth, you are always better to park your bike in the midddle to the rear end of the stall with your front facing out towards the stall.

Your bike is more visible facing the front because it's larger, versus the rear. Parking the bike in the middle to rear of the stall will allow a buffer zone in the event a cager backs up and doesn't see your bike. Most people who back up will utilize the extra space behind them because it makes backing up a lot easier. Somre riders prefer parking their bike towards the front of the stall to inform other drivers that the stall is occupied. However, you are then very vulnerable from vehicles backing up. I'd rather take my chances having a cager see my bike driving forward, rather than relying to see my bike backing up.

You ever wonder why all the cars that are parked by Valets are backed in?

Reason being there is less conflict when you drive forward rather than backing up.

With that in mind, I will always gamble and park my bike in the middle to rear of the stall facing out, rather than the very front in the 2% chance that you find me parking in a parking lot.

My co-worker comes in early and gets the first spot in the lot. He parks his CBR1000RR toward the front of the stall diagonally. I pull in next to him diagonally at the same angle, in the rear 1/3 of the stall. Usually visibility isn't a problem because of the two bikes in one spot, but my co-worker had gone out for lunch that day, leaving only my bike in the back of the stall.

It was just an absent minded thing on the driver's part; he must have seen it as he has to walk around the spot my bike was in to get to his car.

Unless I keep my bike in my garage, it is vulnerable no matter what I do (even then it's at the mercy of Mrs. Chemiker LOL). People back into my Honda sedan and even my Toyota minivan in parking lots! Best I can do is park where my bike is visible, and let insurance take care of the oops moments.