So, I rode into the petrol station...

[mojitomax]

I remember my first time. I'd picked up my shiny new steed with an empty tank. Went to the nearest petrol station. It was on the opposite side of the road so I had to take a right turn into it. It was a busy road and someone helpfully stopped to let me go. At which point I stalled and was faffing about for a couple of minutes before revving the nuts off it into the petrol station. To make matters worse there was a das course filling up and having a chat on the forecourt. Anyway, I filled up. No major disasters but when I I went to start up again, nothing. It was as dead as a dodo. I had to go over to the dad instructor to ask him to take a look. I'd flicked the cutoff switch to off. Mucho embarrassing and wobbling out back onto the main road. Fortunately that was a 100 miles from Home and I'm not likely to we them again!

[Hyperion]

Just wait till you drop it at a petrol station!
Side stand down (side stand not fully lowered unbeknownst to you) - lean bike onto stand - keep leaning bike down - down - down....oh ..ff.f.fffk *crunch*

Edited by Hyperion on Tuesday 29th July 15:15

[Foster2008]

u think you guys have it bad, this morning approx 5mins late for work and another 10 miles to go my petrol light came on, luckily i saw the local station and pulled in. but yesterday my alternator/dynamo packed in. so i got off the bike also lent the bike the wrong way filled the bike up then realising i left filler cap balancing on the seat i reeturned back to sed bike.
then after replaceing cap walked over to shop counter, fely bak pocket and oh my god ive left the wallet at home!!! how embarrasing but luckily they like me and know me so i popped back home retreived sed wallet and jumped bak on sed bike ( after bumping the thing off ) and returned to petrol station.

boss does not like me anymore due to a 10 minute delay to start of work!!!

[Rawwr]

Chilli said:

Rawwr said:

I stalled my bike at traffic lights yesterday. I wanted to kill myself.

Did you start looking down at the side of the bike, suggesting to any witnesses that there was a problem with the bike??!!

VoE?

[Chilli]

Rawwr said:

Chilli said:

Rawwr said:

I stalled my bike at traffic lights yesterday. I wanted to kill myself.

Did you start looking down at the side of the bike, suggesting to any witnesses that there was a problem with the bike??!!

VoE?

Oh yes.....A shake of the head also works to dilute the embarrassment.

[JVaughan]

Hyperion said:

Just wait till you drop it at a petrol station!
Side stand down (side stand not fully lowered unbeknownst to you) - lean bike onto stand - keep leaning bike down - down - down....oh ..ff.f.fffk *crunch*

Edited by Hyperion on Tuesday 29th July 15:15

Worse .. pull up at pretrol station, lean over as to ease it onto the side stand, then forget that the stand isnt down yet.
do a slow motopn lean over followed by lieing sprawled out on the forcourt, bike on floor, too heavy to life due to panniers and topbox, and still being coreded to the autocom too....

did the same outside a customers site.. pulled up at the gatehouse (military base) and "fell" off the bike (it was my old Africa Twin, so weighing about 230kg with fuel, and standing as the tallest bike on the market at the time.

[Rawwr]

Chilli said:

Oh yes.....A shake of the head also works to dilute the embarrassment.

Heh, I looked down at the tank and shook my head.

[StevRS]

Not quite there yet, but read this with a smile! I can;t wait to look like an idiot myself

[colonel c]

Silver993tt said:

It's much easier to simply take your gloves & helmet off - takes about 10 seconds and saves allot of hassle.

Just put the gloves over the clocks and the helmet on the right hand mirror - job done

Yep that's me too. I use a small village garage to fill up so not likely to have helmet nicked but I still keep an eye on it while waiting to pay.

However I recently had a 5p a liter off voucher from TESCO. So with the Disco's tank almost empty I thought it would be a good time to use the voucher and fill up with about £100 worth of diesel..

Now I don't normally buy fuel from TESCO and therefor have no experience of the 'pay at pump' option. So I arrive at a very busy forecourt (I think the price must have dropped a little judging by the long line of cars waiting to fill up). I eventually get to a pump and shove the nozzle in the filler and wait for the pump to start. And wait and wait painfully aware of the drivers behind looking at me. Just as I reach the point of marching off the the kiosk to see what the hold up is I notice the little panel on the pump inviting me to press for 'pay at pump' or 'pay at kiosk'. Sheepishly I press the button and proceed to fill the car but it still takes an age to fill. All the while confirming to the other motorist in the queue that 4x4 drivers really are tts..

Still been out on the bike today to make up for it...

[jamesgrrr]

Nice work there I was pretty surprised to see how little my tank would fit in after having a car with a 70L tank..

Many moons ago I was a meter reader and so in the line of my work I leave my car in a street and call on all the houses. So I call on 40 or so houses down this street (quite big houses, own drives etc) and get back to my car. Feel usual pocket, damn no keys.

Search all other pockets (a lot of pockets on my meter reading attire) no keys.

Search again, no keys.

Walk down road looking hopefully on the floor.

No.

Keys.

So I call up the office to get a list of the numbers of houses i've just called on (jobs dissapear off handheld once complete) and then call once again at every house like a prize muppet asking if i've dropped my keys somewhere in their house, with the owners looking on like I have a single digit iq. After 30 or so houses I eventually find the keys.

Oh the embarassment