Motorbike Parking near Stephen's green shopping centre

SDIESEL77

Hi,

I'll be starting a new job in Dublin in few weeks near Stephen's green shopping centre and would like to get some advices on where best to park (safely) my motorbike near it?

Thanks for your help 😎

spockety

There are some good wide path spots on Clarendon St/Row and South William St where you could park a motorbike and chain it to a lamp post or tree without it getting in anyone's way. To you question around "safely", just put two of the most expensive chains/locks you can find on it, and make sure it's secured to something.

muddle84

Alot of bikes park outside Pearse Street Garda Station for security reasons. Its only a 15 minute walk from stephens green then.

GBX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122502145#Comment_122502145

I recall seeing recently of somebody clamped there for parking their bike on the footpath. It may have been on reddit. I'll see if I can find the post. Not sure if it was over the annoyance of one particular shop being parked in front of.

GBX

Actually just saw a post about an attempted theft outside of the RCSI on Stephens Green. They were ran away by a few bystanders. I also heard of another bike being tampered with parked at the junction of St Stephen's Green and Leeson St. They were not able to get either but still. If you have to park it near your job, make sure its well locked up.

spockety

Yeah I think you need to start from a place of assuming that someone is absolutely 100% going to have a go at stealing it.. not "maybe it might potentially happen, but probably not". Work back from there in terms of security and location etc.

I see Pearse St station mentioned - honestly, thieves are so brazen now in Dublin City Centre that I doubt proximity to a Garda Station, even directly outside, would put them off at all.

Breezin

Not sure where, but there was a video doing the rounds a few months ago of an organized gang brazenly wheeling away bikes in broad daylight somewhere around Stephen's Green.

Where once upon a time I regularly parked in Dublin city centre, in this age of the cordless angle grinder and criminal impunity, I wouldn't leave a Honda 50 out of my sight there.

dubal2008

Check with Drury Street Parking

Krusty_Clown

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122503314#Comment_122503314

Dawson Street and some of the side-roads off Dawson Street are pretty good. I favour Molesworth Street, as it nearly always has a Garda presence at the top of the road (Leinster House). Just not too many solid objects to secure your bike to, so it's a first come first served.

Del2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122503314#Comment_122503314

A car park is no safer than the side of the road