Do you use motorcycle parking spaces?

[VegasSpyder]

When you are out on a ride and want to stop at the store, mall, or where ever, do you use the M/C parking spaces?

or regular car parking spaces?

I use the car parking spaces, so far.

[SpyderAnn01]

It depends on how many there are, how much closer I can park if I use one and where they are. For instance I won’t use them at a Harley dealer.

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

When you are out on a ride and want to stop at the store, mall, or where ever, do you use the M/C parking spaces?

or regular car parking spaces?

I use the car parking spaces, so far.

It really depends (to me anyway) on how close they are to where I'm going, but more importantly, is the Mtc. space large enough for the Spyder ….. most I've seen aren't ……. Mike

[Lew L]

When you are out on a ride and want to stop at the store, mall, or where ever, do you use the M/C parking spaces?

or regular car parking spaces?

I use the car parking spaces, so far.

Some of us still ride motorcycles ( Yamaha V-Max ) and I park front wheel out in motorcycle parking spaces ( if they are there for us ). On the ---- I always use an auto space ( nose out for a quick get away).

Lew L

[AeroPilot]

Usually I park in the car spaces, and especially when ryding with our group of 4 Spyders, we try to overlap by parking two Spyders to a car space. Usually two pull in and the last two back in to overlap rear wheels and save space.... and it seems to lessen the amount of Looky Loos climbing around them

[ARtraveler]

Mostly car spaces and we also double up on the parking when we are out riding.

[ozarkryder]

Depends on circumstances. The Spyder is a motorcyle, so I can park in motorcycle spaces, but most places don't have dedicated motorcycle spaces so it it usually in the car spaces. The RTL has handicap plates as Gloria has bad knees and trouble from a former car wreck, so if she is along we park in the wheelchair zone.

As opposed to SpyderAnn01, I find a small amount of perverse pleasure parking the Spyder, our Goldwing 1800 trike or my Triumph Bonneville right by the front door, where the motorcycle spaces generally are, at the Harley dealer when I am getting parts for my FLHS.

[FalconAF]

I live in Las Vegas. I will use car spaces normally, except when I go to a covered parking garage like at a hotel/casino and it has dedicated motorcycle parking in the garage. Then I will put the Spyder in the motorcycle parking area, primarily because that area will (normally) have surveillance cameras monitoring it. The casinos aren't stupid (I used to deal at them after I retired from the Air Force). If a customer rolls up on a Gold Wing, Harley, or equivalent $40K-ish Trike, that customer has money and wants their bike watched by security while they are in the casino or staying at the hotel. And seeing as most Valet Parking will not take a motorcycle (insurance reasons primarily), many (most) casinos will provide supervised (camera surveillance) motorcycle parking for you to use in the parking garages.

[Easy Rider]

It really depends ( to me anyway ) how close they are to wear I'm going , but more important , is the Mtc. space large enough for the Spyder ….. most I've seen aren't ……. Mike

+1

Or you can do it like the Harley riders do:
Park right beside the front door.......on the sidewalk.......beside the bicycle rack if there is one.

[Mazo EMS2]

Very few M/C stalls in our area, so car stalls it is. I would use a car stall anyway due to the width of the Spyder

[Chupaca]

if it is a motorcycle designated area and not lined for two wheeler I will park there. If lined then in a car space.

[billybovine]

Always nice to have dedicated Spyder parking spaces.

[Bfromla]

When you are out on a ride and want to stop at the store, mall, or where ever, do you use the M/C parking spaces?

or regular car parking spaces?

I use the car parking spaces, so far.

True parking POLE
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[ARNIE R]

Wouldn't dare park anywhere where a Harley does.....already heard enough about getting a "real Motorcycle"........

[FalconAF]

Wouldn't dare park anywhere where a Harley does.....already heard enough about getting a "real Motorcycle"........

Show them your Veteran's License Plate, then your VA Disability documentation, then a picture of your neck X-Ray showing the 9 screws holding your head up.

Then tell them where they can go with their "real motorcycle".

[Spyder Insyder]

I always use the designated motorcycle parking at our local Walmart. Problem is, so do some of the car drivers.

[Spyder Insyder]

Wouldn't dare park anywhere where a Harley does.....already heard enough about getting a "real Motorcycle"........

If that ever happened to me, I would just show them a picture of my H-D RoadKing.

[d.o.spyder-rts]

If there is one I'll normally use it if it's large enough. Like others have said, not to many parking lots around here have dedicated motorcycle parking. Dale

[VegasSpyder]

I live in Las Vegas.

Me too.. born and raised...

[Desert Spyder]

Anywhere but the blue zones. At a local Del Taco there is a MC parking spot set in a wedge and the end of a row. I fit there perfectly.

[pegasus1300]

I always park in a regular car stall, but I go in just far enough to clear the lane so another car wont think the stall is empty. I don't use motorcycle stalls as I think the Spyder is too big.

[Wahrsuul]

Wouldn't dare park anywhere where a Harley does.....already heard enough about getting a "real Motorcycle"........

I usually just reply; "I will when you do." Still wouldn't park where Harley's frequent - takes too long to burn the oil off the tires

Spent my formative riding years in Daytona. Heard some of that while riding my RD350. For the most part we were treated like distant cousins - a member of the family, but not quite right.

[AY4B]

Unless Im parking at a MC dealer, I never see dedicated MC parking. I go to my local Home Depot and half the parking lot is for disabled, veterans, internet shoppers, emplyee of the month, contractors, or just taken up by rentals or inventory.

[AY4B]

What really gets my goat is looking at riding groups, The description would say all types of motorcycles and trikes welcome.... then at the end it would say no spyders.

[Easy Rider]

What really gets my goat is looking at riding groups, The description would say all types of motorcycles and trikes welcome.... then at the end it would say no spyders.

They are doing me a favor by putting that in the description.
Even when I was on two wheels, I would avoid groups that said things like that........ because experience tells me that I wouldn't like most of the people in the group anyway.