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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: canuguzzi on June 27, 2015, 06:29:28 PM
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I'd seen motorcycles in apartments but didn't think people actually put them inside hotel rooms for the night. As I was just about to leave the other morning and about a day from home, I see two guys heaving and huffing at the door to their room. I watch as they pull out by the rear a HD stretcher, hard tail and all.
Strange I thought because there were so many other people also getting ready to head out and the cleaning staff was already hitting rooms.
Stranger was when they went back inside and pulled out another, and one more! I looked at my room then imagined the arrangement inside theirs, I had the large room and theirs appeared to be one of those singles.
No license plates on any of them, no helmets in sight (California) and no one wearing any riding gear. 2 guys and 3 bikes. They didn't have a car or some other vehicle that I could see.
Just strange.
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Back when I toured long distance more often, I usually put my bike in the hotel, would lay down a large garbage bag first just to be courteous. In Hastings Nebraska, the woman saw that and told me I must move it. I pointed out the approaching weather and told her "Sorry, but no way". Half an hour later we had quarter sized hail and tornadoes close enough to hear. Next morning she came by and said I made the right call (once she saw how careful I was to keep the room clean) since every car in the lot was all dinged up bad. When I couldn't put it in the room, I would run fishing line out the window concealed as well as possible and tied to my bike, and tied to my traveling boy scout pot and pan kit in the room. Instant homemade bike alarm. That and my Beretta .380 and I would sleep quite well :thumb:
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Henry you are the polar opposite of the guys I know that rebuilt the carbs on their suzuki race bike in a motel room. It was.......stinky.
I think that was a no smoking room after that.
Hunter
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Thanks for the fishing line story - I've used it before like that but not in that circumstance. I understand asking for a handicapped access room usually gets you ground floor with a wide door.
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https://dowcopowersports.com/guardian-cover-alarm-26038-00/
To say that this is loud would be an understatement!!
The black box has a clip on the back and just attach the lanyard and when the lanyard moves it pulls out the pin in the top of the box.
No problem hearing the alarm in your room on the 3rd floor.
I got 1 for my Eldo and will get another for my wife's XS650
It may seem pricey,but, after you hear it you'll forget about the price......Alan
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Whenever I stay in a hotel, I park the bike under the covered main entry way. If a cheap "motel no-tell"' bring it up under cover outside the door. Yet to meet any resistance to either.
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Look, I love my bikes, but they're only bikes not Picassos.
I will occasionally ask to park under protected cover, but no matter how much care someone supposedly takes, it's disrespectful to bring it in the room.
I remember the first time the owner/operator of small establishment sheepishly asked me not to do that at check in. I was aghast that some barbarians had done it to him in the past so he felt the need to proactively bring it up.
Just another case of why some of the non riding public hates us.
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"Look, I love my bikes, but they're only bikes not Picassos.
I will occasionally ask to park under protected cover, but no matter how much care someone supposedly takes, it's disrespectful to bring it in the room."
:1: Amen.
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I cover my motorcycles with a cover. Out of sight-out of mind. :boozing:
Matt
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No license plates on any of them, no helmets in sight (California) and no one wearing any riding gear. 2 guys and 3 bikes. They didn't have a car or some other vehicle that I could see.
Just strange.
The 3rd guy was probably outside relieving himself, as there was a 4th bike stuck in the bathroom.
Ken
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Look, I love my bikes, but they're only bikes not Picassos.
I will occasionally ask to park under protected cover, but no matter how much care someone supposedly takes, it's disrespectful to bring it in the room.
I remember the first time the owner/operator of small establishment sheepishly asked me not to do that at check in. I was aghast that some barbarians had done it to him in the past so he felt the need to proactively bring it up.
Just another case of why some of the non riding public hates us.
:1: Absolutely right on the money.
And what about it being a fire hazard in a closed space? Isn't that an issue as well?
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A local dood went to Sturgis with his bro in law, He on his good 'ol SPII and bro on his brand new hawg. Bro in law had all the fanciest new locks and chains and locked the hawg up in the hotel parking lot. When the guys got up in the morning, the hawg was gone, the SPII was still there with the key in the dash. Alot to be said about not taking your Picasso on the road. :thumb:
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What next? Bikes on planes??
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The three bikes in the room, the three guys all sleeping together in the bed. Maybe that is the mindset?
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I only did it once and it wasn't a very nice place. It was a nowhere motel in Alabama and I couldn't find a place to stay due to whatever reason, the bullet proof glass and the scantily dressed young ladies hanging out in the parking lot made me a bit concerned, so in the room I rolled the bike.
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I always got picked up by some bi polar woman and parked the bike at her place...
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When I was doing my ride to South America, I would always look for hotels with parking lots, This one was in Salvador, thats a sawed off shotgun the man is holding.
(http://s5.postimg.org/6iknhqzpv/manwithgun.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6iknhqzpv/)
Sometimes if they did not have one the hotel would offer the lobby for parking. In La Paz Bolivia they said sure, no problemo, after I checked in and paid they had me roll the bike down this staircase to nowhere :-) It was a lot steeper than it looks in the picture. It literally took two men and a boy to get it out. I tried riding it out but I could not get traction on the stairs. A trials rider coulda done it I suppose but it was beyond my skits
(http://s5.postimg.org/tvip09ftf/lobby.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/tvip09ftf/)
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No plates. No helmets. In California. Show bikes. The trailer was out of sight. Motel maybe hotel, No. The only bike I ever did that with was my Daytona 1000. Most other times it was under the parking roof overhang.
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No plates, 3 bikes for two, they were collecting stolen bikes there?
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Look, I love my bikes, but they're only bikes not Picassos.
I will occasionally ask to park under protected cover, but no matter how much care someone supposedly takes, it's disrespectful to bring it in the room.
I remember the first time the owner/operator of small establishment sheepishly asked me not to do that at check in. I was aghast that some barbarians had done it to him in the past so he felt the need to proactively bring it up.
Just another case of why some of the non riding public hates us.
+ a bunch. How can a motel possibly allow anyone to bring a dirty 800 pound vehicle with 5 gallons of gasoline into a room? It doesn't make sense.
I think they're being really nice to allow us to park under the front foyer, like the last two have done for me without my even asking. They can see them from the front desk; although they don't commit to watch them all the time, a thief will likely try a less visible target.
If people start insisting on their "right" to bring a bike into their room, it's going to go back like the bad old days. And it should.
Lannis
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Goes for the same with using motel bath towels to wash the bikes.
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I have to say I found the whole idea bizarre.
I've travelled extensively in the US by bike and have never felt the need to park any of my bikes in my room. I stayed in a couple of slightly dodgy places too! (the 'Days Inn' in Muscogee was particularly memorable. Jude got savaged by bed bugs! :D) and on another occasion I stayed in downtown St. Louis where I have to say I have felt more secure but on that occasion I was on the Convert, a machine so oddball that nobody would steal it, even if they were barking mad!
If you're travelling, especially for pleasure, surely it's easy enough to stay somewhere where you aren't kept awake by the crackle of gunfire?
Here in Oz most publican's will suggest you put your bikes 'Around the back' rather than leaving them in the street and often there will be an undercover area out the back which you're welcome to use if you ask nicely but if you tried to push your vehicle into your motel room chances are the proprietor would, quite rightly, go ballistic! If you refused to move it they'd call the wallopers, and quite right too! It's an absurd presumption.
And I agree wholeheartedly with Tom about the use off towels to wipe down your bike. What monstrous arrogance!
Pete
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Goes for the same with using motel bath towels to wash the bikes.
The last two I stayed at, one offered the old worn out room towels without me asking, the other gave me one when I asked.
I just hate to see that nice trend screwed up by people pushing the envelope of civility.
Lannis
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I have to admit I have used a hotel towel to wipe off my seat after it rained that night. Mine were still wet/oily from previous incidents.
But, would not think to use one to clean the bike.
I guess owning a bike that no one would want makes me think a bit differently than most. I'd park mine just about anywhere (and I frequently forget and leave the key in it). Heck, if I don't mind staying at the hotel, then I trust leaving the bike in the parking space outside. If I don't trust the hotel parking lot I'll go somewhere else.
And have had plenty of nice motel folks offer to let me leave it under an overhang. One pair of chromed HD's got ticked cause my bike was under the overhang and there was no room for theirs.
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Riding the 1100 Sport in NZ last year, I stayed at the holiday park in Waihi Beach, and was the only guest in the backpackers dorm. On booking in, was told "it looks like it will be wet overnight, you'd better park the bike in the room" (big sliding glass door). The only time I've ever even thought of doing that. It did rain overnight, but beautifully sunny next day.
Mal
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And have had plenty of nice motel folks offer to let me leave it under an overhang. One pair of chromed HD's got ticked cause my bike was under the overhang and there was no room for theirs.
I pulled up under a front foyer in front of a Holiday Inn Express last Monday just in front of a torrential thunderstorm. A long H-D trike-trailer rig was taking all the available space. The rider saw me pull up, ran out of the lobby, and pushed his rig back so his trailer was in the rain but I could fit my bike in so I could park and unload under cover.
I thanked him (a Marine, by the way), and in the morning when I left I found that he had cleaned all the bugs off my windshield and wiped off my seat and tank .....
We want more of that, from fellow riders AND from motels ....
Lannis
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And I agree wholeheartedly with Tom about the use off towels to wipe down your bike. What monstrous arrogance!
Pete
I`d rather use a use a cleaned towel somebody had used to wipe down their bike than one used to wipe clean an ass any day.
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I`d rather use a use a cleaned towel somebody had used to wipe down their bike than one used to wipe clean an ass any day.
From the looks of the guys hauling the bikes out of the room, I'd say the towels there were used to wipe asses and other nethers after they were used to wipe down the bikes.
So you'd get a 2fer. :laugh:
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From the looks of the guys hauling the bikes out of the room, I'd say the towels there were used to wipe asses and other nethers after they were used to wipe down the bikes.
So you'd get a 2fer. :laugh:
No doubt, and you can be assured the bikes were wiped first :grin:
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I do/have.
Started with my '82 Katana. Turned out to be a side benefit to the ergos I like that it'd fit through standard doors.
Came walking across the parking lot one evening from a quickie-mart and a fella is doing what he later described as "seeing how top heavy it was". Point being, I clear the corner and he's standing beside it with it off the side stand. Too, there was a utility trailer across the lane and down with its door-ramp down.
Coincidence? Possibly, but either our man or someone else had tried to push it far enough to get my disc-loc well and truly into my chain and far past where I left it. Things got said and words got backed up but in the end, I still happily found that it rolled nicely into my room. I then and ever after use a poncho that I always carry to roll it in and sleep quite soundly.
Is it something I perceive to be overly precious as stated above? Are my priorities outa line with others?
Don't give a frigg... I still have my bikes and I defy anyone to detect the past presence of my bikes once I clear-out.
Then, I couldn't replace it. Now, I don't wanna replace any of them... forcibly.
That one had at least three theft attempts so far. My XR1000 had one attempt and one success. My old 'Glide went to the swap-meet in the sky.... Just those three alone represent what are to me irreplaceable items in what they are in particular and what they represent to me mostly.
Yup, I do it and apologize to no one. In fact, I kinda marvel at not appreciating them more than... "Oh well, I'll hammer the insurance and buy another/something else".
Todd.
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10? years ago I was staying @ the Motel 6 @ Seaside, Ca. for the bike races @ Laguna Seca. Forget if it was a WSBK or MotoGP weekend. That Saturday @ the track a Euro paid stunt rider blew up his 1100 Suzuki stunt bike. I had gone back to the motel for the night and a guy on a matching pristine 1100 Suzuki had parked his bike in front of the office to check in. He checks in and finds his bike is GONE when he comes out! This was like 6pm. The next day the stunt rider does his stunts @ the track as he's paid to do. Don't know how things turned out for the motel Suzuki rider. :popcorn:
The only thing I've ever pulled into a motel room is our Unigo trailer 1 time because it would fit thru the door and would be easy to steal. I have a decades old $40 Kryptonite fork/rim lock that gives me peace of mind & don't ride a HD. But I have had young motel people ogle my 750 Breva probably because it's different. :cool:
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Riding the 1100 Sport in NZ last year, I stayed at the holiday park in Waihi Beach, and was the only guest in the backpackers dorm. On booking in, was told "it looks like it will be wet overnight, you'd better park the bike in the room" (big sliding glass door). The only time I've ever even thought of doing that. It did rain overnight, but beautifully sunny next day.
Mal
I pulled into the Premier Inn in Carlisle UK after riding all the way from the Isle of Skye in pouring rain on a VFR750 a while back as was offered the use of the lobby to park the bike in
Only didn't take it up as the bike was a sodden mess and I wasn't too keen on shoving a 1/4 ton of wet MC around on a polished stone floor :thumb:
I do confess to stuffing the bearings on the oscillating electric fan in the room after I left it running all night to dry some of my gear out though!
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I dunno Todd, at a glance you would have seemed to have made an argument:
Started with my '82 Katana. Turned out to be a side benefit to the ergos I like that it'd fit through standard doors.
Came walking across the parking lot one evening from a quickie-mart and a fella is doing what he later described as "seeing how top heavy it was". Point being, I clear the corner and he's standing beside it with it off the side stand. Too, there was a utility trailer across the lane and down with its door-ramp down.
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That one had at least three theft attempts so far. My XR1000 had one attempt and one success. My old 'Glide went to the swap-meet in the sky.... Just those three alone represent what are to me irreplaceable items in what they are in particular and what they represent to me mostly.
Though I'd counter the argument with "jezus man, perhaps you need to frequent different places".
20+ years, hundreds of thousands of miles of riding and leaving Harleys (and BMWs, and Guzzis) out in front of hotel rooms, or in parking lots out of site of the room, and not a single loss or even evidence of a failed attempt.
Not saying it can't or won't happen someday, but hardly worth my worrying about it unless I start traveling with you it seems. :wink:
Is it something I perceive to be overly precious as stated above? Are my priorities outa line with others?
Don't give a frigg... I still have my bikes and I defy anyone to detect the past presence of my bikes once I clear-out.
Then, I couldn't replace it. Now, I don't wanna replace any of them... forcibly.
OK, don't give a frigg. And I applaud the fact that you at least seem to show the ancillary courtesy of "leaving no trace".
In fact, I kinda marvel at not appreciating them more than... "Oh well, I'll hammer the insurance and buy another/something else".
Why marvel? Nothing in this world is permanent. To pretend that you can hold on to any possession is folly, in the end it will belong to someone else and/or return to the world.
Ok, that's too deep.
How about this then: Dude, seriously, they're machines. I may take some serious joy out of them, but they are still just machines. I'd rather enjoy them than spend (waste?) my time worrying about every little thing that might happen to them but my life experiences suggest are unlikely.
IF your experiences keep suggesting your shyte might be stolen, I'm seriously suggesting you consider changing something up in the pattern, cause that ain't right.
But I just wouldn't want to be that worried about it all the time.
Yup, I do it and apologize to no one.
Well, that's sorta why I'm taking you to task. You see, your actions effect more than just yourself.
On the one hand yes, you're doing your best to be courteous, and again, kudos.
But on the other hand, it's still arguably irresponsible. You're still taking liberties and risks with other people and property that is not yours by right to take. Ok, mountain or molehill? Perhaps, but it just takes one time for it to go wrong or for you to prejudice one owner or observer for them to take prejudicial actions against someone else, and that's not cool at the end of the day.
I stand by my original position on the subject.
Ride safe!
Kev
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When I bought a new Cal2 from Ed Thompson, Denham Springs cycle , Louisiana , I was riding it home to Shreveport when I stopped for the night in some small town. The motel owner insisted I take a handicap room so I could fit the bike in easier. I was confused by that as I didn't think I would do that to someone else's property. Anyway I parked the thing inside and some heavy thunderstorms rolled over that night. I left the room cleaner than I found it.
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That's great and no worries if invited... that's a whole other thing... though I would think 99% of a time some sort of balcony or overhang should be sufficient for storm protection.
Then again, when that seeming tornado (or whatever) ripped apart my yard and much of South Jersey last week (we lost power for 64 hours, and others for almost a full week) I was sure glad the bikes were parked inside.
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Don't anyone ever forget that when Kev m is here he's in charge and always has the last word. :thewife:
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Don't anyone ever forget that when Kev m is here he's in charge and always has the last word. :thewife:
Wow that was rude and uncalled for...
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But I have had young motel people ogle my 750 Breva probably because it's different. :cool:
Kinda scary actually.
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Don't anyone ever forget that when Kev m is here he's in charge and always has the last word. :thewife:
That isn't completely true, I can prove it. ;)
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That isn't completely true, I can prove it. ;)
You just wait. :wink:
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I dunno Todd, at a glance you would have seemed to have made an argument:
I stand by my original position on the subject.
Ride safe!
Kev
Me too.
Just outlining a point of view and find little to argue against in your post.
Still...
I look at it kinda like several somethin's I regularly do (safely) which are strictly illegal yet of no impact upon the rest of the world.
Now, were one of my bikes to puke it's life-blood in a room - I'd stand-up behind it just like the time my Rotweiller went into heat in a hotel. Looked like I was killin' hookers in there. Boy howdy! Was Ravisharan peeved!
Bought me a crime-scene mattress and sheets off that one...
Todd.
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Wow that was rude and uncalled for...
Take it as a compliment. Actually, I thought that was a great summary on bikes in motel rooms.
Lannis
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Don't anyone ever forget that when Kev m is here he's in charge and always has the last word. :thewife:
:thumb: :laugh:
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I think I will have a cover made for my bikes with Hyosung printed boldly.
Who would steal one? :thumb:
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I think I will have a cover made for my bikes with Hyosung printed boldly.
Who would steal one? :thumb:
To be honest, a cover with a monogrammed "Moto Guzzi" would be more effective. Between asking "Who makes those?" or "Do they still make those?", they'd not have time to steal the bike.
Lannis
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I read this quickly a few days ago and thought it must be some kind of a joke, honestly parking a motorcycle in a Motel room?? That has to be one of the stupidest things I can think of involving motorcycles, besides breaking every building and fire code that I can think of, you can not park a fuel fired vehicle in a sleeping room!!! Gas, fumes, batteries venting, not to mention how the motel owner would feel about it!
I have ridden from the Arctic circle to the middle of Mexico and most places in between and not once have I even locked my bike up. On more than 1 occasion I left the keys in my BMW and as always no one touched a thing. My KLR has soft bags, zippers and velcro, I don't unpack most of my stuff including electric air pump, tools etc, nothing has ever been touched.
The only bikes I have ever seen chained up are Harleys, but even that trend seems to be fading.
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i'm one of the who cares crowd. If it rains, who cares. It's not like the bike is going to stay clean on a multi day trip.
If someone steals it I'll be pissed, but that's what insurance is for, and there are so many other bikes out there to try.
I can't imagine putting my bike in my hotel room. I will park under the overhang if allowed, but it doesn't really make that much of a difference.