Workplace Parking Place?

califano

Im figuring a lot of you dont conform to the proper workplace designated parking areas.
Has anyone got any cool, cheeky, non-conformist alternative entrances to their workplace!?.

My own is that i cycle straight into the underground car park and use a connecting basement door that leads to my workplace. Luckily i can bring it right in. On the way home its up the ramp of the basement carpark with the barrier opening automatically and away i go!.

manwithaplan

I am not the most cool or cheeky person you will meet. I am also suspicious of non-conformity. However, I do regularly cycle down the ramp into my work car park, thereby giving two fingers to "the man" who put up the "cyclists please dismount before using ramp" sign. I'm mad, me.

Jawgap

I come in through the undergroud carpark - I just wait until someone comes along and then tailgate them in - in the morning I rarely have to wait for longer than five mins.

Up in the lifts.

Bike is in the office behind me.

in the evening straight through the lobby and out the front door.

However, I always make sure my bike is dry and I always carry it when in the building.

HR, the H&S Officer and Security have all adversely commented on this but as of yet I've not been instructed to desist!

penexpers

Here's my parking space.

tomasrojo

manwithaplan wrote: »

I am not the most cool or cheeky person you will meet. I am also suspicious of non-conformity. However, I do regularly cycle down the ramp into my work car park, thereby giving two fingers to "the man" who put up the "cyclists please dismount before using ramp" sign. I'm mad, me.

I hate those signs.

I remember one of the car parks in Eastpoint Business Park had a sign telling cyclists they had to walk through. I asked around, and it turned out that a cyclist had been hit by a car reversing out of a space. This usually happens when a cyclists keeps too far to the left, but I don't know whether that applied here.

Firstly, the sign should have warned motorists to watch out for cyclists in the car park. Secondly, a cyclist wheeling a bike can also be hit by reversing motorists.

penexpers

tomasrojo wrote: »

I hate those signs.

I remember one of the car parks in Eastpoint Business Park had a sign telling cyclists they had to walk through. I asked around, and it turned out that a cyclist had been hit by a car reversing out of a space. This usually happens when a cyclists keeps too far to the left, but I don't know whether that applied here.

Firstly, the sign should have warned motorists to watch out for cyclists in the car park. Secondly, a cyclist wheeling a bike can also be hit by reversing motorists.

A lot of underground car parks are surfaced with concrete which has no grip at all for bike tires when wet. I thought I was being clever when I ignored the sign in our workplace till I went tumbling over one day when it was wet and hurt myself quite badly.

califano

penexpers wrote: »

A lot of underground car parks are surfaced with concrete which has no grip at all for bike tires when wet. I thought I was being clever when I ignored the sign in our workplace till I went tumbling over one day when it was wet and hurt myself quite badly.

Yeah i know the type of slippery concrete your talking about even when its dry i get the impression you need to keep the weight in the centre of the bike and not slant too much or turn too quick.They must use this surface in underground or multi car parks for a good reason i dont know about. Maybe theyre getting cheap on us!

Kintarō Hattori

I walk across the shop floor and take it to the back stairs. There it's hung up over the bannister where it bothers no-one. I'll take a picture later.

mikemac

Our underground car park had a concrete floor

So on a wet morning on the moped I'd take a sharp turn, flick the throttle and the back wheel used to skid out and screech.
Evel Knievel would have been impressed :cool:
Made bits of my tyre eventually though.

Used to do the same on the bicycle when the tyres were wet
Fly down the ramp, take the sharp turn and try to pull a skid.

Only thing that broke up my day from the monotony of that lousy job

ednwireland

carry mine upstairs and park it in a semi ripped out (unoccupied) office - next door

califano

Thats why ive taken this new route in. Because the biddy in charge of the area ive always carried it through is newly renovated. I only need to walk 8 steps through a foyer area but she always acts like shes having kittens whenever she see's me carrying it through. Her last performance which was much more steely and determined it was cringing. She;d be the type to complain to H&S even though its only her floor shes worried about!. So i said screw that and thought of another way. I cant believe i only thought of the underground entrance up untill now.