Refuelling whilst still mounted

**kwaka_crasher** · 11th February 2010, 20:44

Originally Posted by Ronin

So your comfortable with them coming into your place of work and doing something you deem to be dangerous?

Such as? Riding your bike on the road is infinitely more dangerous than filling it with petrol while sitting down.

Originally Posted by Hitcher

You buy gas from somebody, you do it on their terms. And in many cases people's intellect isn't a function of how much they get paid, ask any PhD.

No. They don't get to dictate to me how I go about installing or using their product as long as what I do is lawful. And that is final.

So you reckon they're just kicking back, working in a petrol station, waiting for the next NASA recruitment drive?

**Oakie** · 11th February 2010, 20:49

I refuel whilst seated simply because I find it easier to do it that way.

**ckai** · 11th February 2010, 20:50

Originally Posted by Genie

filling up while astride, is that like eating while making love???
Just doesn't work.

OK, since no one else has...I gotta disagree so would my wife. Shit, what eating are you talking about?

First things first. Wouldn't a dude that keeps straddled while fueling, then reaches over, while still straddled, and hangs up the handle, have an easier chance of buggering off without paying?

On a purer economic stand, if I owned a stationed, I would request they get off. At least if staff were on the court they'll have more chance of stopping a drive away if they're off the bike.

Me personally, it doesn't feel right. One hose near my crutch is more than enough.

**Ronin** · 11th February 2010, 20:52

Originally Posted by kwaka_crasher

Such as? Riding your bike on the road is infinitely more dangerous than filling it with petrol while sitting down.

No. They don't get to dictate to me how I go about installing or using their product as long as what I do is lawful. And that is final.

So you reckon they're just kicking back, working in a petrol station, waiting for the next NASA recruitment drive?

Your related to dpex right? what is it with the absolute hatred of authority? Out of curiosity, and I'm serious about this, are you a cop hater?

If you don't like the rules then don't shop there. Easy.

**Ronin** · 11th February 2010, 20:52

double post

**tigertim20** · 11th February 2010, 20:57

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Over the past week there have been a couple of letters to the editor of the Dominion Post from motorcyclists promulgating lame excuses as to why they have to remain astride their bikes to fuel them whilst pouring scorn, sarcasm and derision on forecourt attendants who may have had the gall to tell them to get off their bikes and fuel these on their sidestands.

The number one reason wankers like this have for not getting off is that their bike has some sort of "teardrop" tank that can't be filled to the brim unless they hold it upright. If this were true, what happens to the extra fuel once they put their bike back onto its sidestand when they go to pay for their gas? Have they measured the extra amount of fuel that they get into their tank during this procedure? I predict it's only an extra 250ml maximum.

And where do they think they're going to go on this bike once they've fuelled it? A non-stop ride of more than 200km? I suspect not. Most owners of bikes with "teardrop" tanks are unlikely to go anywhere near half that distance, and certainly not without going past another service station.

Gentle readers, this is Small Penis Syndrome at its finest.

I wonder what these nongs would do once their brimming tank overflowed, with spilled fuel finding a source of ignition. How quickly could they dismount? Does their pillion have to get off first? Would they return the gun to its slot in the bowser in the process? Would they position their bike onto its sidestand before dismounting? Is a service station forecourt a good place to deposit several litres of burning petrol? The answers are most likely: Quickly; unlikely; no; no; and no.

Are service station proprietors within their rights to insist on reasonable behaviours that are intended to protect the health and wellbeing of their patrons and premises? Of course they are.

Only wankers remain seated on their bikes when they refuel them.

perhaps you are just a lazy cunt cos you chuck your keys on the bedside table when you get home instead of putting them on a hook screwed into the wall by the door.... why do you really give a fuck how people fill their tanks? why not whinge about the people who cant actually fill a vehicle, and actually require someone to come and do it for them? now THAT is something that is almost worth wanking on mindlessly about

**Hitcher** · 11th February 2010, 21:01

Originally Posted by tigertim20

perhaps you are just a lazy cunt cos you chuck your keys on the bedside table when you get home instead of putting them on a hook screwed into the wall by the door.... why do you really give a fuck how people fill their tanks? why not whinge about the people who cant actually fill a vehicle, and actually require someone to come and do it for them? now THAT is something that is almost worth wanking on mindlessly about

What I do in the privacy of my own home is my own business. Abiding by the requirements of fuel retailers regarding the safe handling of flammable liquids on their premises is a different matter entirely.

Also if part of the "service" involves getting somebody else to supervise the filling of your vehicle, at no charge, what's wrong with that? There's nothing worse than getting diesel on your Jimmy Choos.

**avgas** · 11th February 2010, 21:02

Originally Posted by kwaka_crasher

Such as? Riding your bike on the road is infinitely more dangerous than filling it with petrol while sitting down.

Depends if you smoke

**Cracker** · 11th February 2010, 21:03

I was born with an ego, came from my mother
it won't go away
i love riding bikes, and sitting in the seat filling the bugger right up with fuel
i am the problem
sorry, can't be fixed

**avgas** · 11th February 2010, 21:10

For the record I don't eat a pie while fucking the mrs.
This is probably why I feel unsafe filling the tank of the vehicle while remaining in/on it.

I do see their point though - they have to have some basic rules so that worse case scenarios don't happen. Similar to a speed limit.
You may be perfectly safe doing 200kph......but then some squid on a 250 will wipe out at 120kph.
Likewise you may find it perfectly safe to refill while seated on the bike........but then some knob will do the same, slip, drop the bike, drop the cigarette he was smoking, drop his cellphone he was talking on to grab for something, grab the pump handle, dump fuel all over the court-yard......BOOM........Te Rapa Servo just became a crater.

And before you say "Thats bullshit, no one is that stupid, that would never happen!" remember
...........your talking on KB

**tigertim20** · 11th February 2010, 21:17

Originally Posted by Hitcher

What I do in the privacy of my own home is my own business. Abiding by the requirements of fuel retailers regarding the safe handling of flammable liquids on their premises is a different matter entirely.

Also if part of the "service" involves getting somebody else to supervise the filling of your vehicle, at no charge, what's wrong with that? There's nothing worse than getting diesel on your Jimmy Choos.

it isnt a dangerous practice, dear god, what kind of a PC world are we coming to!?!?!?

I worked at a petrol station for 18months when working through school. never did my boss, nor any of my coworkers have an issue with filling while straddled.
the only remotely relevant argument ive ever heard is that some people may forget to put the stand down and drop the bike when getting off to go pay, however thats a void argument in my opinion, putting the stand down is something you do when physically getting off the bike, has nothing to do with filling or not.
as for driveoffs, well if theyre gonna do it, theyll do it. plenty of people get off, fill up, then fuck off without paying.

mountain out of a molehill.

**avgas** · 11th February 2010, 21:17

Originally Posted by Cracker

I was born with an ego, came from my mother
it won't go away
i love riding bikes, and sitting in the seat filling the bugger right up with fuel
i am the problem
sorry, can't be fixed

Don't worry you can be. Step 1 is realising you have a problem, Step 2 is feeling the learn lol
I used to ride in bus lanes - fucked if I will ever do that again.

**sugilite:Me** · 11th February 2010, 21:36

My bike has a wide flat top, I can get another 1.7 liters in if I straddle it (I'm kinda tall). I then leave dvke and riding my favourite route, the next gas station is in Martinborough, I need that 1.7 liters. I can usually straddle without hassle, even at the local BP, but on the rare occasion they take issue (only one particular attendant) I just hold the bike upright and fill with the other hand. I know, hardly ideal, but being a racer, I'm used to handling bikes in such a way (such as putting bike on race stand etc)
Where the stations have the rule posted, there is no point swearing at the poor old attendant, they have managers to answer to in order to keep their jobs. So to swear at them is as Mr Hitcher points out, very wankerish indeed.

**Maha** · 11th February 2010, 21:42

Originally Posted by Genie

just when i thought you might have stopped spouting.....there you burst forth like a sewage pipe

Thats cos' all Whippy Van owners leave thier deisel engines running while whipping and twirling ya'll a 99% fat free cone!

They dont care about the fumes lapping the very thing that you are about lick....na ah...