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Joined: Aug 2009
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Complete Newb
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I'd like to park my bike at the airport (Dulles/DC) for several days. Anyone ever do this? Was their bike still there when they came back?
09 Bonny America, all factory, 1st ever Bike!
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Joined: Jun 2009
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Your bike would be safer at home. Nothing will make your day like returning to find it either gone or knocked-over/dinged-up by some slob in a cage three days earlier. You find out how good your insurance is, though. Essentials like your helmet could be missing when you return.
Have a friend drop you off at Dulles instead!
John
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2008 TBA / Black / NCHD Windscreen / Saddlebags / De-Baffled Pipes / Flat Black Console
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Joined: Mar 2009
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Stickman Yogi
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Stickman Yogi
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Your bike would be safer at home. Nothing will make your day like returning to find it either gone or knocked-over/dinged-up by some slob in a cage three days earlier. You find out how good your insurance is, though. Essentials like your helmet could be missing when you return.
Have a friend drop you off at Dulles instead!
Does sound a little dicey! I don't know if I could sleep while I was away, knowing my beloved Trumpet was left to the whims of chance. Can you just leave 'er at home and catch a lift with a friend as John suggests? Maybe a cab, bus... must be some other way.
Live to love, love to live.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Do they have special or segregated paid parking for bikes? Many, many moons ago I worked a second (or third?) job at a parking lot near the old Stapleton airport in Denver. They had a special area for bikes, though there were never many in there. This was long-term parking and it was constantly patrolled and all the vehicles were inventoried every night (my job).
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Found out Dulles has a valet section which takes bikes, but problem is it's not covered. At least the theft risk wouldn't be so bad I guess...
09 Bonny America, all factory, 1st ever Bike!
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Second Wind
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Never in a million years  . Take a cab. If I got bake and my bike was damaged. I would have to be shot to stop me from destroying the whole town.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Learned Hand
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Learned Hand
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Not on a bet, nor will I park it at one of the MARTA lots and take the train. I might leave it in the patrolled deck at my office, but even that would give me the willies.
Thom
I might be wrong, I sometimes am.
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