Service station helmet removal??

[Yarg]

Normally take it off as a matter of courtisey.

[maybe]

I have a flip front so no issue

[murhf3]

Its a fecking pain in the arse, but I do see there piont,its worse when ya hav to take gloves of and ya bacpack to get gas, all takes time when I want to be ridding

[murhf3]

Filling up at GAS last night in glen innes (yeah mr blue/red cbr250 who drove by that was me if you are on this site) I received some weird stares and 'walk around the bike/checking it out' type treatment... I think I felt more threatened lol.

I figured as there might have been recent robberies (not the nicest area) I should take the helmet off and get the cash out. They looked nervous as hell at the counter untill I asked if they had/are getting 98, just so I could break the ice. I was expecting red and blues to turn up or something

It all ended up friendly and happy and the attendant ended up asking me how many km's/L the bike does while I was putting the helmet back on!

Noticed that,is this right and is it comming everywhere?

[murhf3]

Well...... Only Shell left, whose nice lady on the phone, also a biker, was apalled by the idea... so hopefully I'll be ok for a while!!!

Hi hey I had a ZX12R 2002, 180hp, dreamed of ridding your roads on it as 330km/ph here was a tad unexceptable altho it appealed to me.

[NC]

If I really can't be fucked taking the helmet off, I don't. But everyother single time I take it off, I think it's a manners thing.

Yes I do have manners

[CBR97]

I rekon its the Goverment,
I met this guy in Mt Eden, he was talking to himself, he had a helmet on with a tourch trapped to the top, he told me " the goverment was doing strange things to all of us", and maybe this is one of the strange things,
I,ll ask him next time I see him.

but if im asked i do take my helmet off, (but i make sure the cameras dont see my face, im sure the S.I.S use the cramers to spy on us.)

Plus the helmet hair thing

yep, im stuck inside,
might go and change my sparkplugs

[Sutage]

Asked the guy at the place where i fill if he minded, he said he personally doesnt care, titirangi BP is the place to be !

[Zed]

Asked the guy at the place where i fill if he minded, he said he personally doesnt care, titirangi BP is the place to be !

Personally I don't have a 'preferred supplier' of petrol. Whoever is closest at the time I need it gets my money! I mean, a good service station is not to be compared to a good restaurant, where I will return time and time again because the food tastes so delicious.

[Sutage]

Us westies gotta stick together! I generally always fill there now because its close to my house, and whereever i go i pretty much go past there, plus i hate Mobil petrol!

[scumdog]

Not many places in Dunedin have signs telling you to remove your helmet, although they all now have signs telling you you must dismount your bike to fill it.

I managed to talk 2 service station guys to hold my bike level when I filled it the other day so I could make the minimum and use my AA card Bored at night gotta love it.

Same here, most of them just say "oh, back again eh?"

NEVER been told to take off helmet or to get off bike while filling it.

[Jantar]

....If you were a hunter, would you expect to be able to walk into a bank carrying a shotgun? And react with self-righteous indignation if challenged?....

Legally, that is exactly what you must do. If you have been out duck shooting, and need to call in at the bank on the way home, then you are NOT permitted to leave a firearm unattended on your bike. You must carry it with you even into the bank.

Now, try explaining that one to the armed offenders squad when they arrive at the bank a few minutes later.

[250learna]

Legally, that is exactly what you must do. If you have been out duck shooting, and need to call in at the bank on the way home, then you are NOT permitted to leave a firearm unattended on your bike. You must carry it with you even into the bank.

Now, try explaining that one to the armed offenders squad when they arrive at the bank a few minutes later.

the way i see it your F#$%$d either way

[vifferman]

Legally, that is exactly what you must do. If you have been out duck shooting, and need to call in at the bank on the way home, then you are NOT permitted to leave a firearm unattended on your bike. You must carry it with you even into the bank.

Now, try explaining that one to the armed offenders squad when they arrive at the bank a few minutes later.

Years ago, when I was a professional sheep-shagger, there was a guy who worked on the station who was quite good at screwing things up: he ran himself over with the ditch-digger (max. speed about 1 km/h), got the dozer stuck in the swamp because he drove it in there so he could stand on the blade to pick watercress and keep his feet dry, etc. etc.
(You get the idea? Not the sharpest crayon in the box, by any stretch of the imagination...)

One night, he goes down the local pub to have a few, and runs out of money before he's quite comatose.

What to do.. what to do... :spudwhat:

Eventually, an idea comes to him, and he wanders out to the car to find something he can hopefully sell to the barman. He returns with a sawn-off shotgun, which he takes to the bar. Then this toothless, brainless, oaf starts a drunken discourse with the barman, extolling the virtue of this fine piece of weaponry, and how it should be worth a few shekels.






Can you guess the rest ?

[phantom]

I normally take my helmet off, its no real biggy, but then have the problem of where to put it. Don't like to put it on the flimsy aftermarket rear vision mirror ( must change them some day ) as it cost a not insignificant amount of money and a fall onto a concrete forecourt is likely to be terminal and every other flat surface in the vicinity is covered in diesel etc