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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: beatup on November 15, 2013, 05:04:58 PM
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Talking to a bloke at Imbil today abt the 3 legislation and the police asking for ride registers.
He is going online to ask all SE Qld riders to gather at Minyama/Kwanana on November 30.
His idea appeals since it is home to the Attorney general.
No organized protest rally, just bikes legally parked while the owners go for a coffee.
His aim is to have bikes fill the spots disrupting Saturday shopping parking.
Chances of Jarrod being in his office are zilch but the disruption to a busy shopping centre would be noticed.
I'm going to go down abt 8am and get a spot just to see how many show up
Pass it on to your Facebook, Twitter friends and any one else you know.
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:wht11 py
let us know how it goes
Tipsy
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Apparently in Melbourne a few years ago the hierarchy started booking bikes for parking on the footpath, someone organised bikes to get into Melbourne very early on a weekday and park one to a bay, nowhere for cars to park caused chaos.
Bikes can now legally park on the footpath.
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Almost correct Yorkie, the Council had permitted footpath parking out of the way of pedestrian traffic. As Council is known to do, they changed their mind and gave a couple of days notice that the rule was changed. Some how the riders (as you stated ) got organised and on the start day took nearly every parking spot in the CBD before the cars got in to town.
Mass confusion as folk tried to find some where to park the gas guzzlers. Next day, footpath parking was again permitted. :grin
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Maybe we should do that here. City of Perth parking states that motorcycles can only Park in motorcycle bays. If you park in a car bay you can and will be booked. If no motorcycle bay available then you cannot park except maybe private operated car parks like Wilson. Up side is if you do get a bike bay, you are only charged 33% of car rate.
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Maybe we should do that here. City of Perth parking states that motorcycles can only Park in motorcycle bays. If you park in a car bay you can and will be booked. If no motorcycle bay available then you cannot park except maybe private operated car parks like Wilson. Up side is if you do get a bike bay, you are only charged 33% of car rate.
It ain't gonna work, eh? They'll just book every bike parked in a car bay.
Seems to me to be another reason not to live in Perth- since 33% of the car rate is still 33% more than we pay in Brissie and we can park in a car space if we want to pay full rate.
Anyhoo- back to Ian B's issue, which is not about parking, but about not being permitted to ride in groups larger than TWO!
(unlike me to "un-hi-jack" a thread)
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Maybe we should do that here. City of Perth parking states that motorcycles can only Park in motorcycle bays. If you park in a car bay you can and will be booked. If no motorcycle bay available then you cannot park except maybe private operated car parks like Wilson. Up side is if you do get a bike bay, you are only charged 33% of car rate.
It ain't gonna work, eh? They'll just book every bike parked in a car bay.
Yeah..... thought of that after I finished typing but didn't want to have wasted my time so I hit enter anyway.... :-)
You can have the thread back now :-)
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thread hijacked.
could the qld crew get in here and see if there is any support for this. :hijacked
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I'd be interested in this, but am out of State on the 30th.
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I am the same as diesel, I will be interstate as well :thumb
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I'd be up for it, but I ask is it worth a trip up from the Gold Coast on a Saturday. I normally try to keep off the roads on the weekend if I can help it.
They have my unreserved moral support though.
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Almost correct Yorkie, the Council had permitted footpath parking out of the way of pedestrian traffic. As Council is known to do, they changed their mind and gave a couple of days notice that the rule was changed. Some how the riders (as you stated ) got organised and on the start day took nearly every parking spot in the CBD before the cars got in to town.
Mass confusion as folk tried to find some where to park the gas guzzlers. Next day, footpath parking was again permitted. :grin
G'day Brock,
as you said we did that parking motorbike/scooter thing quite a few decades ago in Perth. (back in the early/mid 1960's sometime ???) Took about a month getting that organized - no internet and not everyone even had a telephone in their house !
Hay and Murry streets where open to traffic and general parking, so we 'targeted' every single parking bay we could find all that morning. :grin
AH ! Such memories of those 'good old days'. :clap :beer No 'bikie' gangs or 'colors' back then either ! :-(((
Started out to ride an ex-police BSA A-10 Golden Flash. 650cc twin. Cost me a whole 80 quid ! Crashed and/or broke more than a few BSA's, Triumph's (a dozen) one AJS, two Matchless 650's and a Norton International 500cc single OHC beast, (including 2 X BSA's and a Kawasaki W1 650 BSA clone in less than a week while on R&R May '68.) before buying my first BMW, an R69S, in 1969. Traded the BMW in three years later for my first Honda CB750 K2. (STUPIDITY OF YOUTH !)
:spank :'(
About the only motorbike parking area in the center of Perth was outside Mortlock's motorbike shop, R.H.S. of Hay Street up just before Milligan Street.
Motorbikes and scooters started arriving on Perth city streets and taking over ever available parking bay from about 7am. that morning.
We got warned by the 'grey ghosts' that while we where not breaking the law, they wouldn't tolerate any of us overstaying the parking time limit on the parking signs.
Whenever the time was almost up, the rider would stand out on the road side of his bike / scooter as a signal to any other passing rider to pull in and take over that parking bay. :thumb
Don't remember who organized it but it was successful alright, frustrated the hell out of the car drivers. :Stirpot :grin
Pommie bikes, mainly Triumphs and BSA's where by far the most common bike on Perth's roads. :-++ Vespa and Lambretta scooters where about it for the motor scooter brands.
The typical motorbike riders clothing was simply a T-shirt, pair of jeans, fur lined flying boots, a pair of leather gauntlets. Option of half a jar of Brylcreem or your hair full of engine oil from your leaky pommie bike. :rofl
Skinny, hard, tires that only just managed to grip even a dry road. Usual only a single leading shoe 7 inch drum front brake. Cables for brake and clutch operation. The less said about their 'handling' or mechanical reliability, the better ! :fp GOD only knows how ANY of us survived those days !
As pay back the City of Perth promptly passed their by-law that motorbikes could no longer occupy a marked car parking bay even if we paid for it. :'(
Take care :thumbsup
Flip
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