Recent content by georg

Schneller raises a valid point. In the original post in this long thread, the actual by law amending the municipal code for parking machines is shown and it makes no distinction between metered and pay & display parking spaces.

I have a 87 BMW R80. I very much doubt that timing advance could cause that much of an increase in idle speed. A few hundred rpms, maybe. If you have a timing light it is easy to check the ignition advance. What you have not stated so far is whether you have physically pushed the throttle...

Did not realize that there was a distinction between metered parking spots and pay & display spots. I was at a pay & display spot, on College just east of Palmerston. So, in my case, the officer was wrong and my 800cc BMW could park for free. So, we still have to pay at a parking spot with a...

I was on College at Bathurst on Saturday parked at a metered parking spot and was getting ready to leave when a parking officer came by. I asked him if I needed to pay and he informed me that only motorcycles under 250cc were exempt from paying. Any truth to this?