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Refueling while seated?

Lorry said:
It looks way cool if you can pull it off though! :flame
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Ala Nicolas Cage? :dunno :laughing

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I once had a lady get on my case for jumping a guy at a gas station,
maybe I should have phrased that better given the mind set around here.

She thought we were going to blow ourselves up - he stalled at the pump
and battery cables do give off some sparks.

I deferred to her a little and waited until nobody with an open gas cap was nearby.

She wasn't entirely wrong as far as I was concerned.

I admit the static thing sounds plausible, until you realize they accounted for this,
when was the last time you read a news article about a motorcycle blowing up
at a gas station?

The hoses are grounded, they have a metal spigot that is designed to contact
metal in the fill tube and keep everything grounded.

If you are frightened by this (dare I say cluck cluck?), then be sure that:

a) you use a metal tank (avoid those "cheapo" plastic ones that won't take
magnetic tank bags).
b) when filling make sure the metal of the hose is in contact with the metal fill tube
on your tank, and you will be golden.

Next we can talk about the conductive properties of a stream of gasoline,
I am not a chemist so I can't help you there.
 
I put the kickstand down as I roll to the pump to kill the engine, then straddle the bike while I fill up. Crazy, I know! If I have to dismount the bike, the kickstand's down.

Also, I happen to dismount my bike from the back...the same way I mounted it...because I grew up in Montana, and we respect tradition....and that's how we mounted our sheep....uh....horses...
 
Pull up alongside the pump, pull off the right glove to run my card, and use that same hand to hold back the foreskin on the nozzle while standing. I eyeball the level and shut it off myself. Trying to lock the nozzle in usually doesn't work for me and mars the inside along with leaving run marks everywhere. Its not an issue of filling it all the way to the top, it's much faster for me if I stay on the bike and I'm more exact.
 
Buloong said:
And on this well beaten topic, you shouldn't have to get out of your car to refuel if you bring passenger(s). Have them do it. :p
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wouldn't work for me, my wife has literally gone years without pumping any gas for herself.

VFRweasel said:
From Pashnit...

#6.

Filling your motorcycle.

When you are filling your motorcycle please get off of your bike. Do not fill it up while sitting on it ( we are all guilty of this one even me ) because if you have a static fire you may jump off of your bike causing it to fall over and spilling gas making the fire bigger and destroying your bike. Also while fueling ( especially if your bike has a plastic gas tank ) try to make sure that the filler hose is touching the sides of the tank where you fill it. And last but not least try to keep the filler hose as close to the fuel in the tank as possible to prevent static. A little known fact is the splashing liquid creates static. A good demo of this is when you fill a bucket with a hose and the water is splashing around it IS creating static. whereas if you were to submerge the hose it is still filling the bucket but not splashing around it is not creating static.


http://www.pashnit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18451
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If this were a real concern, I think we would be seeing incidents of bikes exploding at gas stations on a regular basis. And we just don't. I have hundreds of thousands of miles on motorcycles, I have never seen anything like this happen to me or anyone I was riding with. Nor have I met a single person that has reported this happening to them. If this were really happening, we would have heard about it thru mainstream channels, like the warnign about filling portable gas tanks in truck beds.

And I am no electrical genius but wouldn't getting off the bike and moving around be more likely to build up some static electricity than staying on the bike? Isn't that why the handle is covered in Vinyl? And from what he describes above, it sounds like this would be a concern in a car as well. So ask your self how often you have heard of a car catching fire and exploding while refueling? that didn't have some sort of electrical problem and/or fuel leak to begin with? And moving water can create static electricity? really?

This is like the people who fear using a cell phone while pumping gas.

I did a google search for motorcycle fires while getting gas, to see if I could find any reference to this actually happening, and the top entry was this thread!:laughing
 
ST Guy said:
My ST is uber comfortable, but I still want to get off the damn thing from time to time.

And, of course, it helps that it holds damn near 7.5 gallons, so I'm not concerned with holding the bike vertical to get the last few drops in. :twofinger
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Yes yes yes, we all need to stretch from time to time on a long ride, but if you are riding 10 to 20 miles to work and stop to get gas, do you really need to get off and stretch?
Yes when I used to ride to Tahoe for lunch, I would get off to stretch, riding to San Diego, Vegas, Sequoia NP, Seattle, Pheonix, King's Canyon NP, Yreka along hwy1, Crater lake, Lasen, Shasta, etc. All of those rides I did, I probly did get off to stretch some times, but not when I am going to work and need gas, no, I don't need to stretch. When I am that old, I don't think I will be riding. Heck, I have probly done some of my Tahoe rides without having to get off and commence stretching. I think once when I had to be in Redding for a meeting, and got started late, I think I rode all that way without getting off to stretch on my old BMW K.
 
VFRweasel said:
............................If there's a fire and you're sitting on the bike chances are you're gonna jump off the damn thing letting it hit the ground, not helping the fire or your bike at all.........................................................................
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Put the kickstand down, even though you're straddling. This should prevent making the problem worse if you have to get off the bike to stop/drop/roll.

I also keep my leather gloves on....so I'll be more likely to shut the gas cap, in case of fire. Last, I always keep my helmet on and visor down, to prevent fuel (on fire or not) from getting anywhere near my face
 
i have to dismount. my tank is under my butt.
 
Damn, after about 100 yrs of refueling bikes, tractors, planes and boats I never realized how complicated it is. Hope I do it right on the way home tonight.:wow
 
I straddle my bike like it's a bitch in heat. Honestly, how long can this thread go on?
 
i'm low on gas... probably will be my last post since I am going to explode later tonight
 
orbframe said:
i'm low on gas... probably will be my last post since I am going to explode later tonight
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remember

1) stop
2) say two hail marys
3) be aware of any rampaging drivers about to plow into you
4) dismount
5) do hokey pokey
6) touch your negative battery terminal twice
7) bow to Aztec sun god
8) bow to Mayan sun god
9) cusult medicine man
10) consult astrologer

ahh, forget it, I gotta go...:cool
 
Getting off to refuel in order to stretch? You bastards are blocking my pump. Fill up pull over, and then stretch. :twofinger
 
A hundred and fifty posts is a good time to introduce the foreskin pull-back issue. Do you pull the nozzle foreskin back all the way, to 'top off'? Do you think that's evil because you're putting harmful fumes into the environment? Did it genuinely never occur to you and you've been cockblocking yourself from that extra gallon of fuel all along? (I heard someone say something that sounded like the last one recently)

Does the work 'foreskin' offend you?
 
In-ride refueling is the answer...

You hit a button on the left grip and a docking nozzle extends from the front of your bike... You then track the flying tail boom refuelling hose coming out the back of a KC-135 Goldwing with gas storage in all the luggage compartments, latch on... top off, then break contact and wait in the IP cue as the other bikes in the squadron refuel.
 
Feanor said:
In-ride refueling is the answer...

You hit a button on the left grip and a docking nozzle extends from the front of your bike... You then track the flying tail boom refuelling hose coming out the back of a KC-135 Goldwing with gas storage in all the luggage compartments, latch on... top off, then break contact and wait in the IP cue as the other bikes in the squadron refuel.
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That might work for a ZX10R but the GSXR 1000 is too fast and would simply stall out going that slow. KC-GSXR 1300 maybe. :twofinger
 
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