Gas station bike policy

[Lou Girardin]

Has anyone struck problems with gas stations refusing to allow you to fill unless you get off the bike?
It happened to me at BP Birkenhead today. They actually turned the pump off while I was filing up. I even explained how the overflow sustem worked on a bike and that I have been filling vehicles twice as long as the pump jockey has been alive without immolating myself.
Needless to say, they've lost our business.
Is this the nanny state gone mad?

[riffer]

Yes - the Shell of Featherston Street and the BP on the motorway have both requested I do this. None of them turned off the pump though.

It's a bugger when they do this as it's hard to fill up the bike totally unless you can move the bike around to get all the air out of the tank.

[k14]

Exactly what I said to the guy who told me to get off at BP Riccarton last week. First time it has happend to me, but it is the policy of all service stations. If the attendant has any common sense, then they will not care, but just remember the society we are living in now. If some dumbass comes in and squirts petrol all over the exhaust of their bike and it catches fire the petrol station would get in shit for it. They are just covering their arses.

[Quasievil]

Put it on the centre stand ??
ANd if thats not available then ask them to fill it up while you hold the bike straight ??

[Skyryder]

Lou it's a saftey thing. Go to http://www.msgroup.org/DISCUSS.asp and find out why.

Skyryder

[dangerous]

Has anyone struck problems with gas stations refusing to allow you to fill unless you get off the bike?
It happened to me at BP Birkenhead today. They actually turned the pump off while I was filing up. I even explained how the overflow sustem worked on a bike and that I have been filling vehicles twice as long as the pump jockey has been alive without immolating myself.
Is this the nanny state gone mad?

What is there reason? did you ask them to explain?
IMO I wont fill up while on the bike never have, I sooner have the bike on the lean so as to get the nosel in easier and witout the higher risk of spilling (having better control) and to.
Also the air gap is ment to be there fpr a reason I have found that in the past when I have over filled the tank that it will siefen(sp) out or exit the over flow if I have filled up on a center stand.

ps: I find that if you park to close to a pump then some dick will park so close to you that there door hits the bike when they open it hence I park out from the pump and move the bike on when finished filling.

[FROSTY:Me]

Ive never encountered that problem My response would be instant and top the point. Hand the attendant his gas nozzle start the bike and ride off.
I deal with idiots all day the last thing I need is another idiot in my own time

[matthewt]

Has anyone struck problems with gas stations refusing to allow you to fill unless you get off the bike?
It happened to me at BP Birkenhead today. They actually turned the pump off while I was filing up. I even explained how the overflow sustem worked on a bike and that I have been filling vehicles twice as long as the pump jockey has been alive without immolating myself.
Needless to say, they've lost our business.
Is this the nanny state gone mad?

I've seen some signs at gas stations pointing this out. Can't remember which ones.

[toads]

the worst petrol stn rule I've ever had was " no your kid can't use the loo unless you buy some petrol!", ( we happened to be on foot and the kid in question was 3 years old and needed to do #2), needless to say I was more than a little pissed off and I boycotted them for years afterwards

[Ms Piggy]

This is a little but a couple of weeks ago I was calling someone on my mobile when I was inside the petrol station (BP in Berhampore) and the bloke behind the counter told me that you're not actually allowed to use cell phones & that there were signs.

When I went back out onto the forecourt there were signs but they were for usage of phones on the forecourt. I couldn't be bothered going back in to argue the point b/c it's not a service station I normaly go to.

I think k14 is right - it's all about covering their arses in the case of a 'worse case scenario' occuring.

Hey Toads - I remember when I was working on a road gang & we were in a little town called Herbert (SI) and the town didn't have a public loo but the guy at the Service Station was really reluctant to allow me to use theirs! DH!

[sAsLEX]

seen the signs at shell's, also state kids cant pump gas and about ten other things

[dangerous]

This is a little but a couple of weeks ago I was calling someone on my mobile when I was inside the petrol station (BP in Berhampore) and the bloke behind the counter told me that you're not actually allowed to use cell phones & that there were signs.

well thats cos in Oz there's been a few close calls like a fella whos phone rang when he was filling up the car, his phone was in his pocket and his hole leg and lower torso was badly burnt and another were a person was already talking on there phone and thay were badly burnt around the face..... not good realy.
youd not think it possible realy aye.

[James Deuce]

The high voltage, low amperage static field generated by electronic broadcast devices is a known fact. Your cellphone is always talking to a cell site, so it is always towing a small electric field around with it. Cell phone batteries "leak" static as well. They aren't shielded and you could potentially touch off petrol vapour while using your phone.

There have been cases of people setting fire to themselves and the gas station whilst sitting on a 'bike. I for one always get off the bike when I'm filling because those first couple of steps may save my life if I have to run for it.

Riding bikes is about risk limitation. Why add another couple of risks?

[Posh Tourer :P]

Anyone heard of the same in digital/film cameras? we got told not to use them on forecourt too.....

[Motu]

My 11 yr old loves to fill the car up,check oil and stuff,blow up the tyres - most stations won't allow him to,he get's a bit pissed off.Last week I had the boys at work with me on saturday morning - some guy came in from OSH and told me they weren't allowd in the workshop under 15yrs old.Bloody hell - going to work with Dad is an institution,how's a kid supposed to know what his father does all day....how can he follow in my footsteps if he can't follow me around.I went to work with my father on saturday mornings - drove around in trucks and motorscrappers,ran around in dirty pits...didn't hurt me...oh,hang on - scared me for life and I turned into a petrolhead!