I don't see why people here have such a problem with taking off helmets before filling with petrol-if you owned the garage/worked behind the till would you turn the pump on for someone who you can't identify? I take my lid off everytime I fill and think those that won't should find something better to complain about!
I never remove my lid either....I work on the principal if I have to stand on my tippy toes to see over the counter they won't see me as a threat...it's worked so far
Sprint I would fully agree with you IF it was fully enforced but as you know its not including banks. People knock the French but at least thay have the balls to say enough is enough your not hiding behind that in public.
Working or ever worked in a petrol station etc may give you the view that a biker taking the lid off is no big deal. But I'm not so sure from a legal view point this is correct. As bikers we are by law required to wear a lid on the puplic highways. Now if your sitting on your bike keeping it upright to fill the tank and somebody come into the petrol station and for what ever reason crashes into your bike while your filling up and knocks you off the bike. Are you insured if you are not wearing your lid..as youve taken the lid off to keep the paranoid petrol pump worker happy?..... this might be splitting hairs but its still a point.
My main issue is the singling out of bikers, to be treated diifferently from other road users. As I said if you were wearing a Burka head scarf would you be asked to remove it before you filled your car up?
I understand this is an old issue and been done to death , but I'm just stating my view point, I would leave any petrol station without fuel ( as I did the other day, twice) if asked to pay in advance or to remove my lid..... These places will loose my trade end of story.
In that scenario you're unlikely to be served petrol anyway - it looks as if you're sitting on the bike in order to fill up and make off without paying. The petrol staff are likely to refuse to flip the pump switch until you've removed your helmet - which they'll tell you to do over the public address system. If you refuse and ride off it just confirms their suspicions.
It's also a bad idea because if you overfill you're likely to get a crotchful of petrol - which will sting.
I've found most staff are OK with bikers with flip up helmets on the whole. And I've not had any problems with those automated pumps where you pop in your card and fill up - I much prefer those to having to queue up in the garage.
The insurance company of the other party are liable for your damages in your above scenario so it matters not whether you were insured or not - you weren't on a public road, you were stationary with your engine switched off - fault lies with the other party who was driving.
Valhalla Rising, I reckon you just can't be arsed to remove your helmet. Right?
Of course you have a choice, and you are quite within your rights to purchase your fuel somewhere else, but I reckon you will run out of places to do so before the staff change their mind about their 'lid off or no service' rule.
I don't recall any reports of folk wearing any other head gear driving off without paying for petrol, so doubt any one who wears something else would be asked to remove said headgear.
We all have our views , and I stand by mind.. Have a feeling this one will go on forever, so not getting into any more replies on this.. I can respect that so hope you all can .. moving on lol .. on a what made me happy note, pulling this back to the thread... I got my laptop back ... that made me happy :)
will someone tell me where are all these petrol stations that insist you remove ur helmet....r they all in coventry!???? i can honestly say ive never been in a single one.....have i just been lucky...or unlucky coz i love a good argument.
For the third time my bike wouldn't start.
Remembered that when I was having similar problems early last year a mechanic discovered loads of water inside the air cleaner...watched him bale it out
Thought, mmm wonder if that's happened again. Got me allen key and removed the cover but it was bone dry in there....glared inside in a perplexed, annoyed but loving sort of way, thought ah well it was worth a try & fixed the cover back
Tried the starter and bingo it fired first time!!! Dunno why it wouldn't start & why it decided to when it did, but I do know it made me very happy
Still haven't warmed up yet though...brrrrrr
Middle of the night, woke up feeling thirsty, so orf t'kitchen fer a glass o water.
Coming back in the pitch black, I stumble over a handbag some fool of a wife has left on the bedroom floor.
Colliding wiv bed, said water gets chucked over missus.
Then the fight started...
Hospital phoned to say they were releasing my severely disabled father today. I can scarcely conceal my enthusiasm for
getting back to the daily routine of pandering to his every crippled
need, lifting his twenty-stone arse on and off the toilet, listening to his constant shouting and all without a hint of gratitude. Why won't the bastard just die and give us all our lives back?
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