London's Best Motorcycle Parking? Westfield Shopping Centre

If you're a biker from the London area then you need to know about Westfield Shopping Centre's motorcycle parking. (I'm talking specifically about Westfield in White City although the Stratford location may offer the same.) Not only is it free of charge and situated in a secured indoor car park but you're also provided with excellent lockers in which to store your gear. 

Faced with the prospect of dragging a helmet, jacket etc. around once you've reached your destination is never a pleasant prospect. Here, you can stuff it all into the large locker which is secured via an attached cable (which you should first feed through your wheel). Literally the only thing you need is your own padlock to lock it all. 

I took these pictures last summer and thought I'd lost them, before stumbling across them (saved in the wrong folder!). With that in mind, I can't recall how many spaces there are but it was around thirty from memory. It's a very impressive provision given what inner city crime rates are like and how much parking costs (Westfield charges up to £12 for eight hours in a car, which is actually not bad at all either). It's not without limitations in that you're not allowed to use it as your permanent parking spot say, for example, you live locally. There are time limits on how long you can stay. Again, I can't recall them exactly (and their website offers no clues) but they're not bad at all and you won't hit them during a day trip.