I always get off and use the centrestand to fill up and always take off my helmet when I go inside,I don't really see it as much of a problem.Originally Posted by Hitcher
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I always get off and use the centrestand to fill up and always take off my helmet when I go inside,I don't really see it as much of a problem.
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Ive run out of fucks to give
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I have never filled up my bike sitting on it, I imagine it would be very akward to do? (specially not having overly long arms to reach the pump).
Used to put my bikes on the mainstand but now only have a sidestand and that's fine.
Usually leave my helmet on (hassle with earplugs etc etc) but always make eye contact and usually have my wallet in my hand.
Being frustrated is disagreeable.
But the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.
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Was he burnt while filling up? Or something like putting gas on a BBQ to start it.
From what I've seen, if enough fuel vapour ignites it won't matter if you're sitting or standing, you will get flash burns at the very least. You sure won't outrun it.
Hardcore Biker
All stations have the little pix of not sitting or straddling a bike on the pump. Though at times I have remained sitting on the bike but rarely now. What I have had is my boy being stopped filling up as he is too young :disapint:
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What generally happens as a result of a vapour flash during filling (and this doesn't necessarily have to be a consequence of anything you've done either -- petrol vapour, especially in frosty calm condistions, lurks with menace) is that the person doing the filling panics and drops the gun... I imagine that in the process of leaping off a bike some people may also neglect to cap the tank and put down the side stand...
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About the cell phone etc business I would that thought that starting up an engine just after filling would be the biggest cause with the sparks etc in the starter or even in the key switch as that is very near the fuel tank...
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bloody oath. I worked for Shells engineering branch a few years ago over the summer and they are WELL paranoid about the fire danger of fuel vapours... why? because it makes a bloody big mess when they go off! Its a bit like aircraft where 99.9% of aircraft flights are uneventful, but when they go wrong, a whole lot goes wrong at once.WELL SAID
Read the freakin signs and if you don't like it, go somewhere else (and read their signs and then run out of fuel trying to find some hick station that doesn't understand safety)
as for helmets, i always take mine off unless going to my regular haunt of Gull on Reeves/Ti Rakau drive. They all know me and my bike becuase I'm in there about twice a week (damn traffic making me lane split in 2nd gear!)
Dis Tent Rider
I got sent this on Tuesday with a notice about petrol fires, etc, etc. I do not know if it is staged or what but it looks very effective. The discharge of static electricity causes a large amount of fuel fires.
It is a reasonably large avi, (1,704KB), for those of us that are on dialup and lasts about 1m20sec.
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Women are capable of filling there own car
Work? I want to go ride!
whoa! I wonder if the video stops there because the car exploded and took out the camera? (the tank is still smouldering!)
oh, and I think you can safely say it wasn't staged. No gas company wanting to stay in business would even laugh about the idea of a fire on the forecourt.
Work? I want to go ride!
ahh, this is what I was trying to find. The video referred to may well be the one posted above.
Its a safety warnign from Shell and shows a van that got a little more flambe'd... actually it could be the one from the video if the fire took hold after the video stops.
This is worth reading guys (and its only 142 kb!)
parting of the sensory
I always fill my bike by standing next to it. It was OK with my last two bikes, as they had centre stands, but it's a pain on the VTR as it has a very small fuel range, so I like to get it as full as possible. Becuase of this, I have been tempted to sit on it while filling it, so I can get it more upright, but I've read too much and have too vivid an imagination to do so. Sometimes I lean it up off the stand a little to get a bit more in, but it's very awkward.
I used to leave my helmet on when paying for petrol at the local Caltex station, but one day went to a BP, and they asked me to remove it. Since then, I've always removed it, as I twigged to why they'd asked me too.
I've never seen any signs about this, but just figured it was courteous to do so, alleviating the staff of any fears I might be a bandito! I was tempted to get a flip-front helmet like my wife's one, just so I didn't have to remove my helmet, and may still do so. Yes, it's a pain having to take off gloves, sunglasses and helmet, but too bad.
That reminds me - once a bee hit me on the nose while riding up our road, and I had to stop in a hurry, take of my gloves, sunglasses and helmet to get it out of the helmet.It seemed to take forever! Luckily, it stung me on a part of my nose where the skin is thin and there's cartilage underneath, so it didn't hurt much. Either that or the impact with my hard conk stunned it!
parting of the sensory
It's interesting that the woman fiddles her jersey around a few times, and seems to have pantyhose on under her pants, by the way she keeps adjusting her pants leg. Those two things and sitting in the car fidgeting around would have built up quite a static charge, which arced to the metal dispensing nozzle when she reached for it ....
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Went to fill the LPG bottle on Sunday. I happened to notice a guy get an old plastic container out of the car and start filling it. Wife and kids patiently waiting. He finished the job and the put the bloody thing on the floor by the front passengers seat, paid and drove off. I wonder if BP have a policy about that.
Lou
PS. Who saw the gas station scene in Zoolander?
In the riders seat
If the container being filled isn't an approved fuel container I think you will find the gas station can be fined big time.
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