I stopped using my local BP garage at Chaddlewood when they started charging 5p/litre more than the supermarkets.watters wrote:but i dont think this little petition will stop more than 1% of bikers in the uk using bp.
BP GARAGE PETITION!!!!!!!
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zx6ninjaboy
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it wont your right BUT there are over 52 people who have signed in two days so thats 52 people just in torquay who wont use BP but thank you for being so positive it will just give me better satifaction when BP put a shelf up and not have to say thanks to youwatters wrote:yes that does answer my question thankyou.
but i dont think this little petition will stop more than 1% of bikers in the uk using bp.
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to be honnest mate I can't be assed to take off my lid but if I am asked to I will.
If I were working behind the counter I might be a bit unsettled with people wearing helmets/hoodies etc
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I dont see the big issue, as said before, its not that bigger deal removing a lid for 5 mins of a ride. and if it is, and gets you all frustrated and annoyed, should you be riding on the roads if something so simple can get you all worked up? if you get frustrated with being asked to remove a lid whilst stationary, then whats gona happen when mr bmw driver pulls out in front of you?
it is also fact that petrol stations employ a vast amount of young workers, teenagers...(however think they have to be 18?). put yourself in the shoes of a young teenage girl serving behind a counter, people do get a little bit tense when they are dealing with people wearing lids, its just in our nature that we socialise more with literally face to face communication....totally of topic, but even my mates dog gets spooked when im wearing a helmet, will growl and bark, until i remove the lid, then he's fine.
you are also forgetting the safety factor, not only for theft/hold-ups, but also when wearing a lid, you are not as aware of things happening surrounding you, your smell is restricted to a certain sence, meaning that fires, burning items are not as detected as quickly. i have seen first hand experience of what happens when petrol comes into contact with a red hot exhaust.
however everyone to their own, i have even heard of someone getting so outraged with being asked to remove their lid, that they left and came back in a car whilst still wearing his helmet and filled up, just to make a point.
Let me remind you aswell, that it is not just Bp stations that ask of this request, and singeling them out alone is a bit unfair. i dont know about most of you, but i tend to fill up at what ever station is the nearest when my petrol light comes on, regardless of what station it is, and wouldnt risk running out of fuel from boycotting certain petrol suppliers.
just my 2p's woth folks....have a nice day
it is also fact that petrol stations employ a vast amount of young workers, teenagers...(however think they have to be 18?). put yourself in the shoes of a young teenage girl serving behind a counter, people do get a little bit tense when they are dealing with people wearing lids, its just in our nature that we socialise more with literally face to face communication....totally of topic, but even my mates dog gets spooked when im wearing a helmet, will growl and bark, until i remove the lid, then he's fine.
you are also forgetting the safety factor, not only for theft/hold-ups, but also when wearing a lid, you are not as aware of things happening surrounding you, your smell is restricted to a certain sence, meaning that fires, burning items are not as detected as quickly. i have seen first hand experience of what happens when petrol comes into contact with a red hot exhaust.
however everyone to their own, i have even heard of someone getting so outraged with being asked to remove their lid, that they left and came back in a car whilst still wearing his helmet and filled up, just to make a point.
Let me remind you aswell, that it is not just Bp stations that ask of this request, and singeling them out alone is a bit unfair. i dont know about most of you, but i tend to fill up at what ever station is the nearest when my petrol light comes on, regardless of what station it is, and wouldnt risk running out of fuel from boycotting certain petrol suppliers.
just my 2p's woth folks....have a nice day
I sometimes take me lid off anyway. If someone working in a shop feels intimidated then I'll deffo take it off.
If someone wants to think I'm a criminal let them crack on. Their opinion is irrelevant. I couldnt care less about what anyone thinks of me except for my family and friends.
My thoughts are this.
A lot of places get held up by people wearing lids. Banks banned them years ago for this reason and we still use banks. Most of us anyway. Before anyone gobs off about turbans and all that crap. Grow up! It doesnt even remotely equate with a crash helmet.
I just cant see the UK board of a major multinational sitting down one day and thinking" What can we do today to pee someone off?"
"I know, lets get bikers to remove their helmets when they put petrol in for no other reason than to pee them off. We have far too much money and we should alienate customers for a fun way to get rid of some of it. Head office wont mind at all."
I dont think wearing helmets should be cumpulsory anyway but theres not a lot I can do about that. If someone wants to ride a superbike at 120mph with no lid then I see it as a good way of cleansing the gene pool.
I've had a crap day and this rant has really helped!
If someone wants to think I'm a criminal let them crack on. Their opinion is irrelevant. I couldnt care less about what anyone thinks of me except for my family and friends.
My thoughts are this.
A lot of places get held up by people wearing lids. Banks banned them years ago for this reason and we still use banks. Most of us anyway. Before anyone gobs off about turbans and all that crap. Grow up! It doesnt even remotely equate with a crash helmet.
I just cant see the UK board of a major multinational sitting down one day and thinking" What can we do today to pee someone off?"
"I know, lets get bikers to remove their helmets when they put petrol in for no other reason than to pee them off. We have far too much money and we should alienate customers for a fun way to get rid of some of it. Head office wont mind at all."
I dont think wearing helmets should be cumpulsory anyway but theres not a lot I can do about that. If someone wants to ride a superbike at 120mph with no lid then I see it as a good way of cleansing the gene pool.
I've had a crap day and this rant has really helped!
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I dont take mine off and wont do, just a matter of principal, my local tesco petrol station was kicking up about my and my crash helmet, yet were quite happy to turn the pump on for a bunch of chavs in a battered escort with baseball caps and hoodies up over the top, the car had no friggin numberplates on it
and yup guess what they brimmed the car and drove off without paying
me I pi55ed miself laughing in the face of the attendant
I have found that if your regular at a station even if the sign says no helmets 99% of the time they ok about it, especially if the bike or lid is distinctive.
and yup guess what they brimmed the car and drove off without paying
me I pi55ed miself laughing in the face of the attendant
I have found that if your regular at a station even if the sign says no helmets 99% of the time they ok about it, especially if the bike or lid is distinctive.
To some extent I agree. However if the aim is to identify the person just in case they drive off without paying then ALL people should be made to reveal their faces, whether they are wearing hoodies, baseball caps, burkas, etc.tomr6 wrote:Before anyone gobs off about turbans and all that crap. Grow up! It doesnt even remotely equate with a crash helmet.
By making only motorcyclists remove their helmets is just a discrimatory as singling someone out because they wear a turban as your example implies.