No motorcycles allowed???
Road Master
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From: Baltimore, MD
Usually non gated communities allow motorcycles. I recently went thru this.
Gated community offers a level of security, especially if its a part-time home. You jus have to do more research.
Also how are you going to get the bike down south.
Just went thru the same problem, I got an indoor 5x10 storage unit for $50 a month.
Gated community offers a level of security, especially if its a part-time home. You jus have to do more research.
Also how are you going to get the bike down south.
Just went thru the same problem, I got an indoor 5x10 storage unit for $50 a month.
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The place in question isnt a gated community, its just 5 or 6, 2 story apartment buildings built around a lake. Oh well, we move on. Re getting a house, not really interested in that for part time living. Condos are cheaper, have on site maintenance personnel and less to worry about when not there.
I got three bikes, Ill bring one down and leave it. Prob the FXR, thinking the carb makes for easy drain and storage long term. However, the number of old folks in the areas we are looking makes its lack of ABS less then ideal. Anyway, one stays. And it will probably go into exactly one of those storage places when were not down there. However I will not have to drive to a storage box just to get my bike. Shell have a car, but the bike will be my main transportation, so its gotta have parking on site.
Nice thing is were in no hurry, so we keep looking...
I got three bikes, Ill bring one down and leave it. Prob the FXR, thinking the carb makes for easy drain and storage long term. However, the number of old folks in the areas we are looking makes its lack of ABS less then ideal. Anyway, one stays. And it will probably go into exactly one of those storage places when were not down there. However I will not have to drive to a storage box just to get my bike. Shell have a car, but the bike will be my main transportation, so its gotta have parking on site.
Nice thing is were in no hurry, so we keep looking...
Road Master
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No big deal but storage spaces do not have outlets so you will have to remove your battery. I will bring my bike back up north. Maybe someone can tell you if the summer humidity & moisture will have any effect like rust by keeping the bike in an enclosed area for a few months. Might want to post that question in the "Florida Crew"
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This article is about trucks being prohibited in a FL community https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl...644-story.html
My wife and I have looked at a couple condo's in FL. Many of the ones we have been interested in say no to motorcycles. Also looked into a nice RV park to put a RV long term, again no motorcycles. The few RV parks that would allow them, were dumps in my opinion.
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Many condo DO allow bikes. It is up to the a$$holes who write and update/change the rules and regs.
I am SURE your GF will find another place allowing bikes.
Sounds like she is a keeper.
BuzzCap7
Bikes ARE then and NOW allowed in Delray Beach.
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My girl is looking to buy a condo in mid-south gulf coast Florida, both as an escape from the miserable winters up here, and to have a place near her ailing parents so when they inevitably need care we have a place to stay. I could take it or leave it, but its what she wants so Ill not argue. Its cheap enough, and I dont mind the idea of being able to ride comfortably in January :-)
Anyway, we had the perfect 2br 2 bath condo picked out, meeting all the parameters - top floor, assigned and covered parking, great view, etc. Absolutely perfect. Perfect that is, until she saw the application and by-laws where it said NO MOTORCYCLE PARKING for more then 24 hours. Unbelievable. We would have bought the place in a heartbeat, but to her credit, she told me up front that when she saw that, that was it.
I offered to see if maybe there was local offsite parking I could rent (which I would hate to do, but I would for her) nd keep a bike there, but she immediately said no way to that. I love this girl!
But it what the hell? To me its almost discrimination... I thought Florida was bike friendly. Guess not.
Fers...
Anyway, we had the perfect 2br 2 bath condo picked out, meeting all the parameters - top floor, assigned and covered parking, great view, etc. Absolutely perfect. Perfect that is, until she saw the application and by-laws where it said NO MOTORCYCLE PARKING for more then 24 hours. Unbelievable. We would have bought the place in a heartbeat, but to her credit, she told me up front that when she saw that, that was it.
I offered to see if maybe there was local offsite parking I could rent (which I would hate to do, but I would for her) nd keep a bike there, but she immediately said no way to that. I love this girl!
But it what the hell? To me its almost discrimination... I thought Florida was bike friendly. Guess not.
Fers...
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The place in question isnt a gated community, its just 5 or 6, 2 story apartment buildings built around a lake. Oh well, we move on. Re getting a house, not really interested in that for part time living. Condos are cheaper, have on site maintenance personnel and less to worry about when not there.
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Motorcycle discrimination has it roots in loud pipes and the reckless wheelie squids. We can be our own worst enemies at times. 10% of the riders ruin the rights for the other 90%.
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The town I used to live in placed a sign at the entrance of the park stating No Motorcycles Allowed. The park had a paved street and paved parking etc.
Someone challenged it. I am not sure if it went to court or what but I heard it came down to the park is funded by public money (taxes) and they can't exclude motorcycles because of that. What they can do is fine people for noise violations (revving the **** out of a bike with open drag pipes) or for riding a bike in the dirt and tearing up property, etc. So IMHO that was a good ruling.
Someone challenged it. I am not sure if it went to court or what but I heard it came down to the park is funded by public money (taxes) and they can't exclude motorcycles because of that. What they can do is fine people for noise violations (revving the **** out of a bike with open drag pipes) or for riding a bike in the dirt and tearing up property, etc. So IMHO that was a good ruling.
Road Master
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These HOA communities never bar the actually dangerous drivers. Their rules are an attack on our lifestyle and an attack on men who act like men. A non-threatening doughy old fart with a golf bag and a Benz is welcome at all these HOA wimp fests.
