Inconsiderate Bikers

We took the nice day Sunday to ride out to the Michigan Renaissance Festival in "Hollygrove." We go every year, even though I spend too much money and we don't even eat those smoked turkey legs. It's a real nice ride, and motorcyclists can park up front, so we don't have to get there early.

When we got there, the nearest place where we've parked before was filled up with about half as many bikes as spaces. That's because some inconsiderate so-and-so's parked parallel to the fence instead of perpendicularly.

Now I know how to park a motorcycle. You park facing the street — not parallel to it — backing your rear tire up to the curb. You do not pull in as if you were parallel parking a car. That's why we get discounted parking at so many places, because we can fit TWO bikes in one space.

Right?

I actually did squeeze in against the fence, but Ironman had a helluva time parking along the edge of the road further away, where they directed bikers to a ditch, basically, on grass.

A bunch of riders who reached the primo area after me tried to park on the other side of the road but were told they had to move down to that grassy area. They were not pleased.

I didn't get a chance to ask the parallel parkers why they did that (might not have been a good idea to do that, especially after a number of ales), but I would like to know.


Maybe they're afraid someone will dent their doors.

The right way to park a bike — side by side with other bikes, not wheel to wheel.