Gas station rules

[Patch]

its 'cause u were on a gixxer dude, buy a real bike - you'll get more respect.

[dipshit]

When I was travelling on the Hornet I used sit on the bike while I poured so as to fill the tank properly. None came out the overflow unless you totally overdid it. That allowed me to get to Ngauruwahia from New Plymouth without the reserve light coming on. Very restful.

You could just hold the bike upright for a few moments near the end of filling it while standing beside it too you know.

[vifferman]

It's interesting that people who fill the bike up while sitting on it can always find reasons to justify it. I've tried it - it was 'kn awkward. You have to get off to pay anyway, so what's the big deal?
I've never slopped petrol on myself while standing next to the vehicle, but I have slopped it on the tank or down the side (in a car/truck). Nice to have that on your pants...

[samgab]

Petrol stations get a lot of petrol drive offs these days.
It's a pain, but I now understand why they prefer prepay.

[Duke girl]

To me it sounds like more, that the Service stations think that everyone who pulls up on a motorcycle to get fuel and stays on their bike while fueling up is a suspected ride of petrol thief, yet to me its the best way to get as much petrol in your tank having the bike completely upright instead of on a slight lean.
Most service stations have a sign up at the entrance saying to take helmet of before entering shop and yet 9 x's out of 10 I go into the shop part to pay for fuel with my helmet still on my head and have never had any 1 tell me to take it off.
Next time it happens to you about being asked to hop of your bike while fueling up ask attendant what the reason is for it. Then you will know the reason why they ask you to do so.

[LittleAngel]

It's interesting that people who fill the bike up while sitting on it can always find reasons to justify it. I've tried it - it was 'kn awkward. You have to get off to pay anyway, so what's the big deal?
I've never slopped petrol on myself while standing next to the vehicle, but I have slopped it on the tank or down the side (in a car/truck). Nice to have that on your pants...

I agree - the only time I filled the bike up while still on it, was awkward as hell!!

I don't have a center stand but I just lean it over a bit - if I can be bothered! Otherwise I'm not that fused.. I'm more worried about not spilling in on the paint!!!

I think the main reason they'd execute the rule would be in case you were doing a runner.. Just as we assume every cager is out to get us, the attendants would assume everyone is out to steal gas... If you were sitting on ya bike and with ya helmet still on ... what would it look like to a non-biker?

Be it right or wrong - that's just the way it is....

[Nasty]

Quite often when filling I will get off fill the bike .. get on move bike to the parking spots and then go pay ...

[MarkH]

I pulled in to a BP the other morning to fill the GSXR and as per usual, I popped the gas cap whilst still sitting on the bike (obviously to pack as much in as poss) and grabbed the pump and proceeded to fill...there was a short squirt of gas, then nothing.
I looked at the attendant in his cage and he got on the speaker "Please get off the bike before you fill it"

It is there right to set and enforce whatever rules they like!

It is your right (and your money) to take your business (and money) elsewhere!

I always fill up while sitting on my scooter, they never say anything at my regular. I always fill up at the same station unless I am out of town, because I have no hassles with them and somewhere else there might be twats!

[sunhuntin]

Quite often when filling I will get off fill the bike .. get on move bike to the parking spots and then go pay ...

ditto. if its massively busy, i move up to a park [removing helmet etc first and walking the bike across the forecourt]

the one thing i hate about my local shell is the forecourt. the pumps have a bitch of an angle to allow the spills to drain away... but it means on a bike that it feels like its going to tip over. so now, i have to try and get a pump on the same side as stand. otherwise i freak when hopping off that its gonna fall.

[breakaway]

Holy fuck I can't believe the amount of whiners on this forum. Get off your fucking bike, take off your damn helmet. It's not going to kill you!

[DrewBroadley]

All this talk is inspiring me to try and fill the car without getting out

[JMemonic]

Been that way for years, next time you fill up check the little stickers near the pumps, when I first started in a station the boss gave me a run through of the rules and one of them was not straddling the bike, another was no transmitters (this was pre cellphones) and we used to ask the police to turn off theirs before we filled, oh and you had to have a certificate to fuel LPG vehicles.

[Harvd]

Holy fuck I can't believe the amount of whiners on this forum. Get off your fucking bike, take off your damn helmet. It's not going to kill you!

You cant? seems just about right on the 9:1 ratio of moaners:non-moaners

This of course being the normal level

[sunhuntin]

oh and you had to have a certificate to fuel LPG vehicles.

still do. we werent allowed to fill lpg bottles or cars till wed "passed" the pathetically easy "test" that any dunce with .5 of a brain could complete, specially with the guy who doled it out repeating himself 5 or 6 times in the form of a stutter: "o, o, ah, ah, ah," from which hed get to his point, then hed go back to what he was talking about 5 mins ago, including the stutter. at times, i had to stop myself from mocking his gravelly voice when he showed up on site, lmfao.

[munterk6]

I have never spilled gas on my self and I have never thought it was awkward pouring the gas whilst seated on the bike..dunno what everyones on about there. I guess Im gonna have to get into the habit of gassing up off the bike eh.