| Author | Message | ||
     Etennuly |
Stopped for gas at a BP station near Maryville Tn. today. Some Douche Canoe Sombich  put the premium pump handle back into the pump with the handle locked open with the little ratcheting bar in the handle. It cannot be done by accident. I noticed it as I picked up the handle/hose unit. Fortunately I noticed it before hitting the 'start' button. However, the hose was full all the way out to the nozzle and when I tipped it down to my tank opening, gas douched over everything. It got the airbox, frame, engine, chin faring. I was really irritated by this "trick". This morning was the first time in a few weeks that I washed the bike. I guess I need to quit that. The lady attending the store was very gracious and allowed me to use a bucket and water to wash down my bike. I sure didn't want to start it with gas all over it and start down the road to have it spray out on me as air started passing over it. Anybody else randomly dicked by a Douche Canoe lately? | ||
| Ulynut |
That does suck. But it could have been an accident. Maybe the person pre-paid for say $20.00 worth of gas. Then went and started the pump with the lock on the handle, and walked away to do something like wash the windows or something. When the pump stopped, they simply grabbed the nozzle and hung it up.  | ||
| Snojet |
Man that is a bummer!!! I had a similar incident when I owned my Yamaha years ago. I unfortunately didn't catch it like you did. I ended up hitting the start button and dowsed the whole front end of my bike. I was madder than a hornet but there was nothing to do but clean it up like you did. It only takes one time and you then you look closely at the pump handle. Really sorry for your luck.  | ||
| Hooper |
Yeah, I've come across a few that are still in the "fully squeezed" position...sometimes the little ratcheted brace doesn't pop off when the fueling stops. That blows...it's careless of the last user. I've been finding that so many people are unaware of their general surroundings and the impact they have as they move through the world, be it in a car (holding up traffic at a right-turn-on-red or doing their eye makeup at a green light), walking down a crowded sidewalk (stopping suddenly when a brilliant thought hits them or taking up the entire sidewalk with their companion and not moving aside to accomodate an oncomer), going up/down an escalator (blocking the whole way from people who wish to climb up/down), listening to music (blaring it as they drive down their small neighborhood street), yardwork/construction (really? 7:20am is when you choose to start chainsawing/leaf blowing/lawn mowing?), and communicating (speaking unnecessarily loudly into their cell phone - the technology is there...you don't have to yell). I want people to realize that they're not alone in this world and their lack of awareness and courtesy impacts others. Alright! Morning rant to start the day! (Message edited by hooper on July 15, 2009) | ||
| Etennuly |
Dude! That is what guns are for! Wow! You seem a bit tense!  | ||
| Portero72 |
Hooper- +1 billion on that. Spatial awareness/common courtesy seem to be a thing of the past. | ||
| Mnrider |
 Thats it Hooper.Its all about ME! At least you where able to wash it right away. | ||
| Tginnh |
Hooper - you hit the nail on the head. Seriously. My wife hears the same stuff from me constantly. I got into it with a little sh*t in my neighborhood last night due to the general attitude you elaborated on. Thanks for the rant. It afforded me a vicarious catharsis. ha! | ||
| Tginnh |
oh, btw - Etennuly, that does suck. sorry to hear that. | ||
| Etennuly |
I have filed it under "shit happens.....right after you wash your bike". That, with a side note: "Don't wash the bike". | ||
| Froggy |
I spilled gas all over mine a few months ago from my own screwup. I didn't care, I just rode. | ||
| Sayitaintso |
I've seen guys with cruisers douse their doodads with gas plenty of times...... Filling up with a McCuff while still sitting on the bike = wet crotch and minor discomfort | ||
| Etennuly |
Well now I have a reason to be, lets say,tense! Having just cleaned it up better I found that the gas splashed on the inside of my stock windshield. It doesn't take gasoline well at all. Looks like it will be getting buffed with my miniball. Don't let gas get on the windshield, it is not resistant at all. Looks like real thin white chalky bird crap splatters without the seeds.  Thanks for the support. (Message edited by etennuly on July 15, 2009) | ||
| Chadhargis |
Not being up to date on my slang, I looked up Douche Canoe on urban dictionary: Douche Canoe - Someone who exceedes the limits of being a normal douche or douche bag. LOL!  | ||
| Hooper |
That'll dry out the ol' skin. Speaking of frustrating fillups, I remember my first time riding in California...I was north of San Francisco on Highway 1, headed to my first stop in Little River. I pulled over in for my first fillup in the little town of Gualala. After surveying the two or three blocks, I wheeled around and pulled into a nice set of shops and cafes. It was late in the afternoon, but found Café La La open. It sold me with its plastic tables on a patio overlooking Route 1, a dicey-looking joint called Mezza Grille (looked like a place that really hopped on weekend evenings, but looked closed when I rolled by), and the wide blue ocean. After lunch, I jumped back on the rented BMW R1200RT and backtracked to a gas station. The pump was broken. It would not fill. I pulled the trigger about 100 times, waiting for the fools in the office to turn the damn thing on. I’d swiped my card, made sure it wasn’t a “pay first before fueling” kind of place, glared and quietly swore at the window and the cashier, and eventually slammed the pump back into the holder, locked down the gas cap, and roared off to another gas station – incensed that those idiots weren’t paying attention to their customers and turning on the pumps. They wouldn’t get my business! At the next station, it was the same situation. The dumb pump wouldn’t pump! This time, I marched into the office to find out what the hell was going on. “Hi. Are you open? Are the pumps on?” I asked politely. “You have to push the nozzle all the way down into the filler hole. Push it all the way down in there until it won’t go anymore,” replied the clerk. That’s crap. Yeah, this was California, where they don’t want a whiff of gasoline vapors to enter the atmosphere. You really do have to jam the nozzle tip all the way into your tank until it won’t go no more…scrunch the little rubber boot all the way down. The pump won’t run until you do. I felt a little dumb, but this is not what I am used to. When you fill a motorcycle tank, you want to get the absolute maximum in there…every last drop that it will hold. So, you generally hold the nozzle outside the tank and carefully shoot the juice into the filler hole until it gets near the top, then take about eight or ten minutes drizzling a tiny stream of fuel until it’s about to spill out over the tank (which it does, inevitably). Then you let the foam die down, and drip a few more drops in – then let the foam die down, and drip a few more drops in, etc. You feel every little bit will extend your journey and prevent you from getting stranded in the middle of nowhere, miles from a gas station. Granted, I was not crossing the Gobi, or even Death Valley, but it’s just something you feel strongly about as a rider. The problem with the California system - as far as I could surmise - is that the nozzle sticks way down inside the tank, and the auto-shutoff sensor prevented me from filling the tank fully, thereby reducing my range. And that just sucks. I don't know - maybe it was only a few tenths of a gallon. I wondered if California riders had a trick of compressing the scrunchy rubber boot with one hand, thereby fooling the pump into thinking that it’s stuck all the way into the tank. Oh well, it was a learning experience. My first fillup in Cali. | ||
| Svh |
Hooper here you go: http://www.aerostich.com/catalog/US/E-Z-Fill-Nozzl e-Key-p-17026.html Remember seeing it in their catalog. | ||
| Froggy |
Hooper, what country do you live in? 73% of all gas pumps have those nozzles. Many states have mandated them, surprisingly not NY yet. Also way to be over dramatic with your fillups, I just squirt till its full and then hang it up, I am too busy riding to give a rats ass about an extra 3 cents of gas that will go out the overflow tube anyway. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
In the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts, it's illegal to jam the nozzle with anything other than your hand. They remove those ratcheting things from each nozzle. Some towns in this state also forbid self serve pumping too! Odd little state it is. | ||
| Tginnh |
NJ forbids self serve pumping. | ||
| Etennuly |
I have never seen a pump with that kind of switch. It seems to me you could carry a short piece of pipe from a fuel filler neck out of a scrap tank from a salvage yard. Set it up so that it will set down to the inner lip in the fuel tank. Let it be about four inches long. Push the pump handle down into that to get a full tank of fuel. Sounds like a real PITA. | ||
| Sparky |
Geeez, I thought every motorcyclist knew they had to pull up the rubber boot with their other hand to see how much gas is going in their tank. I guess not. Oh well, this site can be a great learning forum for some as well as an entertainment venue for others.  Actually, once the boot is pulled up by hand and the pump starts, you can push the nozzle into the filler hole with the boot against the tank and it'll continue to pump until it shuts off when the gas level rises to the tip of the nozzle -- at least in California anyways. | ||
| Froggy |
When it auto shuts off, you still got at least 2 gallons to go, depending on the nozzle. | ||
| Firstbatch |
Hey, I learned something new....here in 'ol Virginia I have not seen boots that need to be pulled up. Heck some of the pumps in the country look like they are 20 years old. Good to know this as I am planning a trip west soon, You probably saved me a big mess. | ||
| Wesman |
Hummmmm.....premimum?????? ...... surely a disgruntled BMW owner ...... car OR bike; out to get Buell owners |
