Slippy forecourts..

[george formby]

I had a pungent reminder this afternoon of another little trap for the unwary. Pulled into the garage forecourt, stepped out of the car straight into a patch of oil/petrol & nearly went arse over tit. Very nasty when you pull up on the bike & brake or when you step off & the foot slides away. This may save someone some embarrassment....

[Motu]

Went down a service station forecourt full lock sideways on a 650 Triumph once - I thought it pretty fucking cool!

[Toaster]

Yep, pays to pull away nice and steady too. All that crap ends up on the tyres. The ol' boots tend to slide a tad when coming in to refuel when stopping.

Dont tell OSH, they will insist on rubber mats with drainholes.

[Elysium]

Worst are those stations that have diesel pumps at every pump station so you get a lot of morons who spill shit loads of diesel on the ground. As soon as you put your foot out you take a slide.

[Hitcher]

I had a pungent reminder this afternoon

How smelly was this reminder?

[george formby]

How smelly was this reminder?

My car now smells like a diesel truck. Could have been worse, might have been a stock truck filled up before me. Thats another thing you find on the road which really spoils your day & your leathers. Cow slurry..

[AD345]

I had almost the opposite happen to me at the lights the other day.

Rolled up, stopped, feet down, lights green, let clutch out, roll away, feet up, change to sec........WTF!!!

Feet glued to floorboards due to melted tar that they had (inadvertantly and unknowingly) been placed into.

Closest I've come to an off in some time as I struggled to get to a safe spot with my left foot stuck on the board. Ended up wrenching it free and having very carefully thought out gear changes for the rest of the way home whilst dragging the sole of my boot along the ground at every opportunity.


Stupid tar

[quickbuck]

Worst are those stations that have diesel pumps at every pump station so you get a lot of morons who spill shit loads of diesel on the ground. As soon as you put your foot out you take a slide.

Yup.... It has got something to do with the way it throths when filling up....
Anyhow, it is a pain, and i usually avoid the servos that have diesel and petrol at the same pump.

Another gotcha is the stuff on the tyres when leaving the servo... especially in the wet.

[Elysium]

Yup.... It has got something to do with the way it throths when filling up....
Anyhow, it is a pain, and i usually avoid the servos that have diesel and petrol at the same pump.

Another gotcha is the stuff on the tyres when leaving the servo... especially in the wet.

Unfortunatly BP seems keen on having diesel on all their pumps for the newer service stations....er wait should we be calling them service stations since we do all the work?

[Slyer]

Services Station is short for Self Service Station.

[quickbuck]

Unfortunatly BP seems keen on having diesel on all their pumps for the newer service stations....er wait should we be calling them service stations since we do all the work?

Yup....
Just the trusty Local Shell that doesn't now....

Oh, our Mobil doesn't have it on all... but i hate the smell of that Ethanol stuff. And my bike doesn't like it either. Well, I'm the one paying for it, so she gets what she is given...
And I put good petrol in my motorcycle too....

[peasea]

My car now smells like a diesel truck. Could have been worse, might have been a stock truck filled up before me. Thats another thing you find on the road which really spoils your day & your leathers. Cow slurry..

Got behind one today as it happens. Went through a roundabout and thought 'jeez, where's the stock truck?' Bugger! It had just pulled out in front of the traffic that I was gaining on. Some vehicles peeled off as we went through the 70kph zone and we got down to two cars and me. I thought the truck was pretty smelly and that it must have been on the road all day but then I spotted the problem. He was dropping shit (literally) on the road as we went along. I backed off, even as we enetered the 100kph zone, and after a while the two cars in front peeled off. I dropped back even further until we rounded a bend and the wind was carrying the smelly spill away from the centreline (and dumping to the left) so I just whizzed past him. What a tosser. He laid shit for several k's and must have plastered at least four or five cars. Not to mention the crap that is now all over the southbound lane of SH6 between Richmond and Wakefield, probably further. Grr.

[BiK3RChiK]

Yeah, and then the attendant tips out the slops from the bucket of window cleaner all over the forecourt, so it's super slippery.... or it rains and well, same effect really! Gotta watch out for so much stuff. Brain in gear all the time while riding.

[Love my Bonnie]

When I was first learning to ride, an experenced rider told me that "men tend to have high speed offs, usually showing off, while chics tend to come off at the petrol station or in a driveway, and its usually only their pride ( & my butt it seems) that gets hurt"

So now, I am super careful in gas stations where I put my feet.

[SMOKEU]

Services Station is short for Self Service Station.

In South Africa you don't even have to get out of your vehicle at a petrol station. A kaffir will come up to your vehicle, fill it up with fuel, check the oils and fluids, take your money, give you your change and you're away laughing.