Parking on sidewalks/walkways

[isaiahchavez]

I have heard from a few different thing when it comes to parking your motorcycle on the sidewalk. A few friends told that you could park your motorcycle on the side walk of like walmart or a best buy for example since there place meant to park motorcycles. But another friend of mine said it doesn't matter and you will get a ticket for doing that. Sorry if this is a stupid question but I wanted to avoid getting a stupid ticket. Does anyone know which is right???

[Zach929rr]

I pretty much park wherever I feel like. I'd rather not take up a car space and park closer at the same time.

Except for at school. I do play by the rules there, as paying lets me park my bike right next to an attendant station that is occupied while I'm at class.

[Scatterbrain]

Stores i don't think they mind but on a sidewalk at a friends house i saw a buddy get a ticket for it. It's $50!

[Mother Goose]

It's illegal to park on a sidewalk. I do it if it's necessary, or I feel it's better if I don't take up a whole parking spot and haven't gotten a ticket yet. Don't park on the sidewalk at Colorado Mills though, the rent a cops there are on a power trip.

[isaiahchavez]

I have tried to look it up to see if there was a law about but no luck. I hate parking in regular spaces cause some people may not see my bike till it's to late.

[tecknojoe]

I have tried to look it up to see if there was a law about but no luck. I hate parking in regular spaces cause some people may not see my bike till it's to late.

I park with the tail end of my bike in the front of the parking space, in line with bumper of the rest of the cars. Less of a chance of someone not seeing it.

[jrhurt]

I got a ticket for parking on the sidewalk downtown and it was a pricey lesson, I think it was $140. With the restaurant's permmision, I was parked in between the sidewalk and their building(next to their patio). I got a ticket for an improperly parked motor vehicle or something like that. I was told since it was licensed, it had to be in an official spot.

[Mother Goose]

I park with the tail end of my bike in the front of the parking space, in line with bumper of the rest of the cars. Less of a chance of someone not seeing it.

Then you get the idiots that think that just because there's a motorcycle parked in that spot, they get to take half of yours too.

[tecknojoe]

Then you get the idiots that think that just because there's a motorcycle parked in that spot, they get to take half of yours too.

then they get to wonder if I'm going to retaliate before I leave


I forget where but someone makes stickers labeled "you park like an asshole" and it has check boxes for all different kinds of infractions. I should carry those stickers in my pocket for such occasions. It's gotta be annoying to have to peel a sticker of the center of your windshield

[Sean]

Never on a sidewalk, I think that's stupid. I'll find a corner, or small area to take up if I can, otherwise I park in a parking spot.

[Nooch]

I'll park on a walkway at Walmart or my gym or something like that, but at smaller places I will park in a space as Tecknojoe described. I usually try to find a space that I can pull through and park at the end of the space at an angle. I like to avoid having to back the bike out to leave. So far I've never been messed with at stores for parking wrong. And at Walmart in particular, Im hardly ever the only bike parking on the walkways. As for downtown, I rarely ever park my bike anywhere down there. If I have to park downtown I either take the lightrail instead or drive the cage.

[grim]

Don't park on the sidewalk at Colorado Mills though, the rent a cops there are on a power trip.

No shit man i parked my Katana there a few years back and two mall cops on segways came hauling ass over to me to tell me i couldn't park there. The sidwalks there are friggin huge!!! Oh well i moved it and went about my day.

[mdub]

the rent a cops there are on a power trip.

who can blame them......that is all they have.

[Ghost]

who can blame them......that is all they have.

Apparently they have Segways too!

(and tiny, tiny, penises)

[mdub]

Apparently they have Segways too!

(and tiny, tiny, penises)

extra confident....

well that is why they go into stalls instead of urinals.

[Zanatos]

I was in Blackhawk last weekend and saw a cop writing a ticket on a chopper parked on the sidewalk in front of a casino on Main Street.

I always park in a space because I don't want to risk a ticket.

[King Nothing]

there's a person at work who parks her Honda metro dead in the middle of the only shaded spot in the lot. it drives me crazy because she could park it under the tree with the bicycles and let those of us with proper bikes park multiple bikes in that spot. This, of course, brings me to my annoyance of the day... people who waste an entire space by parking dead in the middle of the space. Park it correctly and let at least on other bike park there. The main problem with this is, most people are idiots and will figure out some way to damage your bike.

[isaiahchavez]

Thanks for everyone input so basically it's at ur own risk. I'll keep doing what I am doing park where I thinks it's best.

[Mother Goose]

I think if you're not impeding foot traffic, they usually let it go. That's what I try to do if I'm parking on a sidewalk. I think of it like if I was a pedestrian walking down that sidewalk, would I think is this guy was a douche for parking it right there because it's hindering my walking area. If it seems like it's in the way, or would be in the way, I find somewhere else.

[vort3xr6]

I used to argue big time because I would park my bike next to bike racks here vespas were parked. I kept getting tickets and would tell the guy to ticket the vespa then. FTP.

[jbnwc]

It's illegal to park on a sidewalk. I do it if it's necessary, or I feel it's better if I don't take up a whole parking spot and haven't gotten a ticket yet. Don't park on the sidewalk at Colorado Mills though, the rent a cops there are on a power trip.

Yeah - careful at the malls. I've seen rent-a-cops writing tickets in CO Springs even when the bikes were not impeding anything and not near any entrances. Beware people in power that shouldn't be.

[Snowman]

I got a ticket for parking on the sidewalk downtown and it was a pricey lesson, I think it was $140. With the restaurant's permmision, I was parked in between the sidewalk and their building(next to their patio). I got a ticket for an improperly parked motor vehicle or something like that. I was told since it was licensed, it had to be in an official spot.

I will see you $140.00 dollar ticket and raise you a $340.00 repair job when I parked in a legal spot and came back out of the store to see my Blackbird on it's side with a cracked case cover. No note, no card just white marks on my handle bars...

[mdub]

see my Blackbird on it's side with a cracked case cover. No note, no card just white marks on my handle bars...

That is my nightmare....that is why i pretty much take my chances on sidewalks....i have even stuck it to the man...i remember yrs back i park in a garage for several hrs. snuck out at the entrance.

[Ricky]

There are a lot of places where I think motorcyclists are just a bunch of douchebags and they think they can park wherever they want, just because they're on a motorcycle.

I have certain places where I know I can park on the sidewalk, and other places where I know it's not allowed. I saw one asshole park his harley on the sidewalk here at work. Nowhere is there room for motorcycle parking, nor does it say motorcycle parking. I came out and happened to catch him as he was leaving so I said "That harley's so special it gets to park on the sidewalk, eh?" He mumbled a "fuck you", and rode off.

Many people have different opinions about bike parking. The fact is, it'l illegal to park any motorized vehicle on a sidewalk unless it is 49cc's or fewer.