Bitch Bitch Bloody BP!

[NordieBoy]

It is courtesy to remove your helmet.
As for sitting on your bike, the charging system dumps a crap load of current to earth through your bike frame. If you aren't earthed properly, and you touch something and get a spark while filling, the consequences aren't worth thinking about. I for one do not want to either toast my crotch or blow up.

And this is different for a car how?

I always get off the bike but that's just how I fill up and not through thinking about it.
Never take the helmet off and never been asked to.

Now being told that "You have to wear shoes or leave" in restaurants and nightclubs can get annoying especially when they have no signs and don't explain why (Getting bundled out of the nightclub and the bouncer won't let you explain that you're actually there to fix the computer )

[MacD]

Not sure if I got this video clip from Kiwibiker or not, but here's another look anyhow if I did?

I imagine the woman got quite a surprise!

[James Deuce]

And this is different for a car how?

I always get off the bike but that's just how I fill up and not through thinking about it.
Never take the helmet off and never been asked to.

Now being told that "You have to wear shoes or leave" in restaurants and nightclubs can get annoying especially when they have no signs and don't explain why (Getting bundled out of the nightclub and the bouncer won't let you explain that you're actually there to fix the computer )

Well for one thing I don't own a car that I can stay IN to fill via a hole between my legs.

[almonster]

its not a good idea to fill the tank to the very top unless you like fuel coming out your beather did this one day to find fuel blowing in my face going down the road it was pumping up the brether which was fixed on the bars not nice most tanks have a tube in the filler you are not to fill past the bottem of it for this reason never remove my lid never been asked to but never go to bp as they dont take cheques

[ajturbo]

DON'T get off my bike, DON'T take off my helmet, I put the gas in, Crissy-Bimbo goes into the office and pays and we ride off. End of story. :spudwave:

umm have they power down your way yet?, or are all the pumps, hand pumped?

[Stinkwheeler]

ummm... diesel was it? they dont have HT leads/plugs to ignite the vapour & was most likely on a turbo timer.

A turbo timer on a nissan patrol Those guys in evos better watch out. Yes, yes I see the practicality in it. You'd need to flog it non stop to make it go anywhere, which would no doubt fry the turbo (still doesn't stop other owners from driving around with buggered turbos/buggered everything, but I must admit I never thought of it).

But no suck luck, he had the green handle firmly wedged into its rear quarter.

What a thread. What a contrast of views. I applaud.

[scumdog]

umm have they power down your way yet?, or are all the pumps, hand pumped?

Hey, I don't think you should be using the term "hand pump"

[vifferman]

20 cents or $1... Is that an error factor of 80% in my hypothesis? I think not.

No. But then I've never filled my bike while sitting on it anyway, although I did start to try it once - it was very, very awkward! So while it may have appeared that I was giving tacit approval to those who did so to squeeze the last little bit into their tanks, that wasn't my intention. I was merely pointing out that on some bikes it's not just the last 200ml that's hard to squeeze in, it's the last litre or thereabouts.

And almonster - I almost always fill my bikes to the very top, sometimes so it's running down the overflow, because they're civilised and don't spray petrol in my face via some mental breather design.

Here's some extra bits you can insert in your post to punctuate it and correct the spelling. (NO, no need to thank me - I do this for a living ):

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[Paul in NZ]

DON'T get off my bike, DON'T take off my helmet, I put the gas in, Crissy-Bimbo goes into the office and pays and we ride off. End of story. :spudwave:

Far out... Imagine having to ride a harley and never being allowed to go for a ride by yourself. I feels for ya man....

Paul N

(running and hiding from the law)

[RiderInBlack]

When I stopped to fill the gas bottle yesterday, I saw the sort of Idoits that the poor old service station attendants must have to deal with on a regular bais.
Wally 1 was talking on his cellphone while trying to full his "cage". Was ask by the Attentant to move away from the pump while using the cellphone. This he did, for awhile, but (while still using his CPh) headed back to the pump. No surprise that he was asked to take it away from the pump again. Mean while his mate (Wally 2) was just sitting in the "cage". Did he think to help his mate out by filling the "cage" while his mate was busy on the CPh, NO. Wally 1 walks back to the pump still talking on the CPh, hungs-up and then fills his "cage". As Wally 1 goes to pay for the fuel, Wally 2 lights up in the "cage" still by the pump

I didn't know whether I should laugh at their supidity , rip into them , or run like f*ck .

[denill]

Sorry..

I'm not gettin' any of this.. The experts (fuel companies) suggest that you should not do something because there is a remote possibility you could blow the whole suburb to kingdom come and they are a bunch of wankers for requesting you not to? Stuff me, I wouldn't be polite about it...

But Paul -In the remote chance you blow the whole suburb to kingdom come (It doesn't happen often, fortunately) if you are sitting on the bike or standing beside it, it would be like a bad day in the '60s in Vietnam for EVERYONE in the immediate vicinity.

I guess a lot of the previous comments are from people like me - they don't like being told what to do - unless it is in a congenial manner...........

Wanna be Hitlers are not my favourite people.

[RiderInBlack]

Everything I need to say here I've said before is this thread http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...1&postcount=18

[Skyryder]

Always get off when filling up. Cant run very fast if something goes wrong while sitting on the bike. Besides you gota get off to pay so why not before the fill. Usually keep my helmut on but lift up the visor.

Skyryder

[dangerous]

But Paul -In the remote chance you blow the whole suburb to kingdom come (It doesn't happen often, fortunately) if you are sitting on the bike or standing beside it, it would be like a bad day in the '60s in Vietnam for EVERYONE in the immediate vicinity.

Geezzzzzzz................ some people are thick one point of the rules/regs is that we, yes us bikers... could slip on whats often a slipry forcourt while filling up on the bike.
Think about it.......... what could happen....... the bike goes down, you go down, both go down, either way I cant see how you would be able to hang on to the fuel filler and not spill a drop from the tank............ hell isent it easier to do all we can to prevent an incedent?

BTW.... I have seen this happen, but as the rider was off the bike they let go of the triger the bike stayed up right the hose hit the ground with very little spilage and the rider ended up with a sprained ancle... and a wee dent in the tank.
This is also why I dont chose a deisel pump to fill the bike up with... not with deisel, you know what I mean.

[Bazza]

Just returned to riding after 4 years, read somewhere,(possibly on this site...) you NOW had to fill up off the bike, same as using cell phones in forecourts which is now illegal overseas (due to an explosion..) makes sense and is safer.

As far taking your helmet, I always thought you had to by law ? Most stations I go to used to have signs asking you to.

Have wondered though, how much more gas the firestorm would take if it was upright as it filled...as the fuel gauge is hugely inaccurate!