Petrol Station told me to get off the bike.

Dav1son · Trackday Trickster Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Karma :

Not in a confontantional way. However the nice Tesco lady came over the tannoy and then to my face.
Told me I couldn't be served petrol until my pillion and myself were off the bike.
Gave me some bull' that it's a law etc.

Didn't care about my helmet or anything but I had to be stood next to the bike in case it apparently spontaneously combusted.

Anyone else ever heard of this? If I wasn't desperate I would have just left.
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Fin · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Feb 2016 Karma :

Yes, I have heard of it, not happened to me though, by 'nice lady' you mean hot.

I would have got off, let them authorize the pump and then sat on it and continued filling.

Sload · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Aug 2011 Karma :

Why do some people get their knickers twisted over this?
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Dav1son · Trackday Trickster Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Karma :

They don't tell me to evacuate my car when I fill that up.
Also I like having the bike upright so I can squeeze every last drop of liquid to the brim.

It's something I have never heard and a fairly odd request.
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Lord Percy · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Aug 2012 Karma :

I fill up with my helmet on, sitting on the bike so I can have it upright to get more in. I do fear that I'll one day be told I can't do it. My regular petrol stations seem ok so far though.

jpmiller · Derestricted Danger Joined: 21 Mar 2016 Karma :

Me too I always sit on bike to keep it upright, I do take off my helmet but only for comfort and ease.
Never been told to get off.
If I was I would want to see proper reason why.
Not just go by what staff say.

MCN · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2015 Karma :

It's duty of care.
It is dangerous, careless, foolish, lazy-ish to not get off the fucking bike.

As an employee, if you see an unsafe act you own it. That is a corporate policy of a lot of companies.

If there is an incident and negligence can be proved then the company can be held liable.

If it was my petrol station, I would tell staff not to activate the pump in that case.
Let them fuck off somewhere else for their 10 litres.

You can fill a bike to the top without having it vertical.

Filling till it splutters out the filler neck is also not wise as the cold fuel expands in the warm tanks (from the hot engine) and will be forced out the overflow.
Where is the saving again?

Just sayin'.
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Beehive Bedlam · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Oct 2013 Karma :

I would of played fuck and refused to move until either the cops showed up or the pump was turned on. Stupid cow.

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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

Get a few more litres in most of my bikes with it upright. When commuting a long way that was the difference between filling up once or twice a day.

If they are going to get arsey about it then I will go elsewhere. Not just on the bike but in the car afterwards. And in the case of Tesco the reason I don't shop there.

All the best

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Triton Thrasher · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 16 Oct 2012 Karma :

I'd bum some bitch into the middle of next week about that shit and I don't care whom.
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I'd bum some bitch into the middle of next week about that shit and I don't care whom.
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andyscooter · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 May 2009 Karma :

Centre stands ftw
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andym · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Nov 2010 Karma :

A few weeks ago I tested this theory of filling the tank to the brim.... or as close as I dared anyway.... a short distance later I stopped and put the bike on the side stand and went in to the shop and came out to a puddle of petrol that had come out the overflow.

I've never felt the need to sit on the bike to get an extra 50p of petrol in there..... but then I fill up regardless when I get to 100 miles and usually end up putting about £8-9 anyway

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Ichy · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Karma :

One day someone will use search on here, but not today.
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Dave70 · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Jan 2012 Karma :

I had it happen to me once only.

I had just started to fill up when the pump was cut off. The female assistant was doing her best Marcel Marceau impression at me through the glass window, to try and get across what the problem was (there was either no working tannoy system or she was too dumb to operate it).

In the end I had to go inside the garage to see what the problem was, I expected it to be a helmet thing tbh. Anyway, I was quite surprised to be told that I wasn't allowed to fill up while sitting on the bike. Confused

I even explained to her the reasons why many bikers do this (so they can fill it to the brim, as being leant over on the side stand prevents this). She was having none of it.

Ended up asking how much I owed (was something like £3.09), handed that amount over and rode down the road to the asda garage and filled up there instead. I refuse to go to that garage ever since (that'll teach 'em) Folded arms

but, out of all the petrol stationdls I've ever used, I've never been told that before or since.
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Ajo · Derestricted Danger Joined: 23 Mar 2016 Karma :

Surely it's clearly so that on the off chance that somehow your fuel ignites, you can at least run away faster than if you were sat on a bike being engulfed by flames and then tesco dealing with a massive negligence claim

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Dave70 · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Jan 2012 Karma :

If these petrol stations are so concerned with our safety, they'd be getting their staff to get up off their ass and clean up all the spilt petrol and diesel off the forecourt, as having an accident because your tyres covered in this is far more likely than your bike suddenly bursting into flames while filling up.
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Bozzy · Traffic Copper Joined: 20 Dec 2015 Karma :

I just use pay at pump. Our local ASDA petrol station is unmanned (it doesn't have a kiosk) so theres's nobody to moan at me anyway.

M.C · Super Spammer Joined: 29 Sep 2015 Karma :

Am I the only good boy who gets off the bike and takes my helmet off? Smile

Means I spend longer on the forecourt faffing about putting my gloves and lid back on but there you go...