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totally feel you on this. i try to pick up any motorbike or scooter i see in the kill zone but my hesitation is always "this dude is going to see me picking this up and assume I knocked it over"

Some sort of pop up flag might make it easier to see in car mirrors.

If I am riding by I wear my helmet so they know I am a fellow rider. But honestly this isn't the countryside where someone will shoot you with rock-salt. They may come out yelling but you can just say you saw it like that. But I do get it - most people are nervous that motorcyclists are assholes. And honestly some are...

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some bikers are chill. some bikers are complete aggro assholes. like i said i'll pick up bikes because it seems like the right thing to do and i'm also a big dude. but for a lot of people its not a question of decency but safety and common sense (if the biker thinks you dropped it, he will likely hold you responsible)

LOL, good luck shouting into the void with this one. Getting drivers to be aware of humans around them is apparently such a hard ask, let alone stationary bikes. As you mentioned, these large SUVs have such large over-hood blind spots that they love to gobble up small children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6k0-3QrZjA

You also have to love the marketing about it: instead of regulating visibility guidelines, we have a created a phrase for an incident where "Oops I ran over a child".

I had my Ducati knocked over in the 30min it took to get a haircut. It was parked in front of an apartment building with a good 5-7 feet on both sides, but it appeared to have been backed into, likely by the SUV that was parked in front of it. One cracked fairing, bent clutch lever, either a cracked clutch reservoir or even a damaged MC, plus a broken shifter such that I couldn't even limp home. I ended up taking the subway back home, grabbing my toolkit, coming back, and having to do repairs in the dark by this point. But I managed to get into first for the entire ride home. I had also called the police precinct 2 blocks over to file a report, but no officers came by during this entire ordeal of 2+ hours, as I had wanted to file a report to request the apartment building to turn over the security camera footage that it was parked in front of. When I had first inquired about the footage with the doorman on duty, they just shrugged, so I assumed that the driver was a resident and the building wasn't going to cooperate short of a subpoena.

Lived in Astoria for a few years and next to my building were two houses with 3 foot of curb in between their driveways, so luckily I never had my bike hit, but I see downed bikes all the time

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What’s the percentage of single dwellers versus families? What benefit does a motorcycle present to a family of 3+?

I have two dudes on my block that use their motorcycles to save spots for their family members by parking them parallel in between cars to save maximum space.

Annoying af.

And illegal. They must be perpendicular to the curb at max 35 degree angle with one wheel touching the curb.

However what's the difference between that and cars holding spaces? If those two bikes were cars then there would be three spaces taken not one. Motorcycles are not parking hogs, and most families don't have two bikes to use to hold parking spaces.

We could have five motorcycle / scooter parking spots with something to lock it to in the place of one parking spot or a zipcar spot. Bike lanes can be enlarged slightly to allow for motorcycles + scooters easier (since they are now already shared whether they like it or not). Buildings can allocate a space off the sidewalk for parking. Lane splitting could be legalized at stops at least.

Doing all that and more would increase the interest in two wheeled vehicles for people who could use them and free up more space for the rest. It's not a zero sum game - sometimes things can benefit different groups of people. We think too much that if someone has something we dont have that means we are losing out. Not always the case.,

Waiting for the “ban cars” crowd to get wind of this post.

Response from the driver: your request is perfectly reasonable. I am sorry your bike have been knocked over. However, this is still not a justification for motorcyclists to start parking on the sidewalk. In my neighborhood there is a motorcycle that is usually chained to the pole with cleaning/parking signs like this is their personal spot.

That's annoying af too. Especially when a few of your neighbors drive cabs and have multiple family cars. Finding parking where I live is fucked.

I have neighbors that have space in their driveway for two cars and will park both cars on the street to save spaces for their family members.

I have one car, no garage, and usually have to park two to three blocks from my building.