When I took the MSC I was told you I was to only park in parking spots. I remember as a kid my dad always parked his motorcycle in the cross section at the end of parking spots. Does anyone still do this?

I have always figured that there is more than enough room to park two motorcycles in a normal parks spot but at work the guys park in the middle of a spot not allowing room for another motorcycle.

Since I am new to riding I was wanting to know what the normal practice is when it comes to parking. Do you park at the end of spots? Do you leave room in standard spots for another bike? Do you squeeze your bike beside another bike?

 

I was told that so long as there isn't an adjoining handicap parking to the spot you can park there.

 

Technically those striped end caps are usually no parking zones. Will anyone enforce that... probably not. If I'm riding by myself I take up the whole parking space.

 

The stripes areas in a parking lot are no parking zones.
Back your bike into the open space, leaving the front wheel about even with the front bumper of a car, if it was parked there.

1) You can get out of the space and not worry about being blocked in.

2) The front of your bike is close enough to the front of the spot, so a car doesn't think the spot is empty and come flying into the spot and hit the bike.

3) If you leave space for another bike, who's to say he won't block you in somehow, so you can't get out?

 

NO, simply because they aren't legal parking spots.

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Do you leave room in standard spots for another bike?

If a buddy is with me then yes, I leave room for him/them. We can fit 4 bikes in one spot, if needed. However, leave room for a "stranger's" bike? Hell no!

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Do you squeeze your bike beside another bike?

Hell no! I find my own spot.

IE: If I'm alone, I pull my bike right into the middle of a full, legal, parking space.

 

I do use the cross lined area at Walmart parking lot. Talked to security there one time and they had no problem with it and frees us a space if their real busy. Dont do it to save steps as when in my truck or car, park so far away to avoid other car door dings. But for protection as there are large steel poles in the cross area.

And never allow any room for another bike unless it a buddy with me. I have had guys park so close, I could barely stand my bike up to leave.

 

No,I do not park in cross sections! I don't park in pedestrian areas! I park in the center of a parking spot unless I am riding with another bike which is rare!
I try to be considerate and not park so close to other bikes that it makes it difficult for them to get out!

 

To me it is a waste for one bike to take up a parking place.

 

That is what I was told as well. I will park in a spot if close, but half the time I am in the cross strips just to get the bike close to the door and to leave a spot open for cars.

 

If I'm alone I'll use an entire space, but if I'm with another rider we'll put two bikes in one space. As far as cross-hatched areas goes I'll use one if it is in a corner where I can't be blocked in or able to protect the bike from other motorists. I don't use them to save steps, as a matter of fact I'll usually park further away from store entrances just to keep others from parking next to me.