Ok, I'll ask

[1198]

When the obligatory face mask wearing indoors starts what's the crack with petrol stations? Will my full face helmet count or am I supposed to go to the faff of removing my helmet to put a mask on while I go indoors?
(Before anybody suggests Pay at Pump, that's not available everywhere, sadly!)

[Riejufixing]

[notbike]

I've started skipping any petrol station that isn't a pay-at-pump these days tbh. Cant be fucked getting off the bike.

[stinkwheel]

Nobody whinged at the weekend when I was up in Scotland. That said, my chinbar does cover both nose and mouth.
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[1198]

[xX-Alex-Xx]

Just wear a balaclava. It’s amazing how many places are ok with it now
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[arry]

[arry]

[smokin joe]

Very rarely do I use a petrol station on a bike, apart from on a long run where I have to refuel. I have a petrol can in the car and when the bike gets down below half a tank I fill that during a car fuel stop and top the bike up at home.

I hate filling stations on a bike, having to deglove and take the helmet off then fighting through zips and Velcro fasteners to find some money. That and the likely hood of having to ride over spilt diesel near the pumps. The whole process seems to take forever.

[ThatDippyTwat]

[arry]

[Robby]

Shell app. You can pay at pump with it at any shell station from your phone.

I don't think I've been inside a petrol station for over a year.

[ThunderGuts]

Helmet with visor down surely counts as a face shield?
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[Prawny]

[quote="arry"]

[arry]

I was thinking this one through overnight. Not once in 12 ish years of riding have I been asked, EVER, to do anything other than pay.

[Polarbear]

[arry]

[c_dug]

I've been asked to take my lid off countless times, even on the GS with a pillion, about as far from a dodgy moped teen as you get!

I tend to just go to Tesco now, can near guarantee they'll have pay at pump.
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[stinkwheel]

I once had a complete cock refuse to accept payment until I took my lid off (having already filled up and was standing in the shop). I told him no problem, I'd go back out and pay at the night window. He then proceeded to remotely lock the door, trapping me inside.

If it hadn't been very late at night and me being very cold and wet (pissing down, pitch black and 90 minutes of high speed riding from home, hence wanting to leave my lid and gloves on) and needing to get home, I'd have robocopped my way out of the door. i did consider it, there was a handy fire-extinguisher and it was a glass door.

As it was, I took all the nozzles out of their holsters, put them on the ground then did a big smoky burnout on the forecourt on my way out.

He was a complete cock. A loud-mouthed cockney wanker know-it-all.

On another day, I'd have battered the cunt. He had a face and demeanour you'd never tire of hitting and I was fucking raging.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[CorriganJ]

[doggone]

There was one incident when I started to pump and somehow they shut it off with just 50p on the dial.
I refused to pay it as it clearly said minimum 0.5 litres (they may be different now) - in other words the amount was so small it could not be correctly measured.
I just rode away after arguing with him, and heard no more.

[ThatDippyTwat]

I've been asked a fair few times. If they're total dribblers and refuse to use common sense, I vote with my money. Shell now have a company wide policy that you only need to lift your visor. I am a stubborn git, so I make my way clear across town to fill up if I'm "home", and I look for a Shell if I have to fill up when out and about. There's a couple of small ones that are fine with lids on some of the popular routes, and the usual supermarkets have pay at pump. You don't need to give your money to cockwombles that haven't got a clue why you don't fancy sticking several hundred quids worth of lid on some manky surface, or have it hang precariously off your mirror, not to mention the utter bollockache with faffing with chunky gloves etc in the winter.
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[hellkat]

I wore this on the Woolwich Ferry the other day
The other two bike riders had flip top lids and no masks.
Nobody hassled them about it.

I nearly forgot to take it off when I got off the ferry
I can see how easy it would be to inflict it upon us at petrol stations as they already have that "no helmet" rule working quite well for them (despite the "cameras on the number plate at every pump" thing)
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[weasley]