Anti Motorcycle TESCO store

[Jaws]

LOL CB ! We aint so sensative here mate !

 

[tootyfluti]

The Kumar's are on the case now !!

No we`re not!!
FWIW, Andy and I don`t remove our helmets at petrol stations, it`s too much hassle. I`ve never been refused service yet but would quite happily argue the toss and offer to leave without paying if they would prefer.
One for some and another rule for the others is what it comes down to though.

 

[Phoenix]

1 I dont remove my helmet jsut to pay for fuel

2 I wont!

3 And I already will not buy fuel at tesco for this exact reason!

 

[dhekalia]

firstly I must say I always remove my helmet, I don't know why just always have, but as an aside, a couple of weeks ago a biker went into our local Tesco garage to pay and was asked to remove his helmet, he refused paid and left, it left the counter person a little lost for words but made me smile (I was in the car in this instance) The rider was firm but polite, "No, it's raining, it takes time and care to prepare to ride safetly and I will not remove my helmet thank you"

Not the actual wording but that type of thing. What can you reply to that.
:neenaw:
I will however try to pay with my helmet on and see what happens
Cheers

 

[tailgator]

Maybe it is different in the UK than in Oz but we have to take ours off every time - the signs have been up for years (although we don't have Tesco's?)

Its a pretty basic request and I would have thought a matter of courtesy? but then I am pretty old fashioned. Unless you are just stiring Rhino?

 

[ianrobbo1]

I don't fill up at Tesco`s, but at either sainsburys, or my local BP on Donny road, I have never been asked to remove my "lid" at sainsburys, but have at the BP, whereupon I said certainly, if they didn't want me as a customer again as Ive been using that station for over 4 years and if they didn't recognise me now then they didn't deserve my custom, since then never a peep, they even let me drive off once when I had forgotten my wallet, :bang:
and yes I did come straight back and pay them,

 

[Jaws]

Maybe it is different in the UK than in Oz but we have to take ours off every time - the signs have been up for years (although we don't have Tesco's?)

Its a pretty basic request and I would have thought a matter of courtesy? but then I am pretty old fashioned. Unless you are just stiring Rhino?

It is exactly that, curtesy, which demands we as motorcyclists are not marginalised.
As a matter of interest Tailgator, how often do you have to wear big thick gloves, inner gloves, neck roll and maybe a balaclava under your bash hat.
If all you have to do is whip a hat off then sure, I doubt many folk would argue the toss.. except for the compulsion side of the issue..
You should understand that for years the state has been telling brits what to do.. We now live in a tightly controlled nanny state.. as such the popuation is starting to kick back against the ever increasing rules and regs put upon us, sp when a PLC starts dictating what we can and cannot do as well as the govt., you can almost guarantee a kick back !

 

[ALonaBIRD]

a few (many i guess) years ago me and the mrs were at Donny for brit GP to see Scwhantz & co racing i went into a BP station in Nottingham to fill up with fuel. Parked next to pump and stuck the nozzle into the tank.

The woman behind the counter started making wierd hand signals to me which i didnt understand :dunno: so i shrugged my shoulders and kept waiting for hr to turn the pump on. She still made the gestures and i shrugged my shoulders once again. Finally she came to the door and shouted "turn your bike round so the camera can see your numberplate"

my reply to this was to lay the nozzle on the ground, start my bike up and ride out of the station giving her a wave as i left.


that has never happened before or since and the only time i have had any problem with having to take my helmet off has been in England never happened in Scotland at all

 

[skippy]

It is exactly that, curtesy, which demands we as motorcyclists are not marginalised.
As a matter of interest Tailgator, how often do you have to wear big thick gloves, inner gloves, neck roll and maybe a balaclava under your bash hat.
If all you have to do is whip a hat off then sure, I doubt many folk would argue the toss.. except for the compulsion side of the issue..
You should understand that for years the state has been telling brits what to do.. We now live in a tightly controlled nanny state.. as such the popuation is starting to kick back against the ever increasing rules and regs put upon us, sp when a PLC starts dictating what we can and cannot do as well as the govt., you can almost guarantee a kick back !

Where Tailgator comes from aint as cold as this tiny island but where I come from in the southern states winters can be even hasher than anything you guys have come across and the helmet off thing has been around as long as I can remember, I always take mine off as a matter of courtesy and even with the balaclva, gloves etc etc it is no hardship. If you guys sat back and really thought about it it might dawn on you that it is precisely this belligerence, arrogance and recalcitrance that is marginalizing motorcycling.

 

[ianrobbo1]

Where Tailgator comes from aint as cold as this tiny island but where I come from in the southern states winters can be even hasher than anything you guys have come across and the helmet off thing has been around as long as I can remember, I always take mine off as a matter of courtesy and even with the balaclva, gloves etc etc it is no hardship. If you guys sat back and really thought about it it might dawn on you that it is precisely this belligerent, arrogance and recalcitrance that is marginalizing motorcycling.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???????????NAH!!!

 

[skippy]

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???????????NAH!!!

Are you sure about that Ian:dunno:

 

[ianrobbo1]

Are you sure about that Ian:dunno:

HHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmYEAH!!! :}

 

[skippy]

HHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmYEAH!!! :}

HHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm Your not nomally as committal as that Ian:dunno:

 

[ianrobbo1]

WADDDYAA mean????? ME?? now when have you ever known ME to sit on the fence??

 

[Cyclops]

WADDDYAA mean????? ME?? now when have you ever known ME to sit on the fence??

Well not without the fence collapsing

 

[skippy]

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[Codbasher]

For what its worth, I always remove my helmet when buying petrol. Mainly because a lot of the garages employ young girls or at least women, many garages have been hit by raiders or yobs, easy way of robbing a place is to turn up on a bike with a helmet on, easy way of hiding a face, so its no hardship for me to remove a helmet, puts them at ease as well without them having a seed of doubt as to whether I'm about to pull a gun or something.

To me its just common decency to do it, it does not cost me anything to do, apart from a few seconds of my time.

 

[Jaws]

If you guys sat back and really thought about it it might dawn on you that it is precisely this belligerence, arrogance and recalcitrance that is marginalizing motorcycling.

Actually that is a hard one to call Skippy..
What came first, the abuse bikers in the UK have had to put up with for the past 50 years or the mule headedness of said bikers caused by the abuse ..

We are, and have been, in a long continuing spiral..

I for one will not back down any more, simple as that.
I have been refused entry into camp site ( whilst alone and on a nice quiet standard bike ), refused access to resteraunts, even refused medical attention for a badly gashed up once cos the twotting quack though 'all people who ride motorcycles have only themselves to blame if they get hurt'..
I have been picked on by plod ( and believe me, abyone who was a teenager in the 60's and rode knows what being picked on REALLY is .. ) failed to get a job because I arrived on a bike, in fact I have suffered for the cause..

In France, when I ride there, I am respected.. In Italy I get the same..
Have only ( repeatedly ! ) passed through Germany so do not know what it is like there... But as a biker in the UK I am treated like shite..

If people want to carry on being treated like some sort of low life they can fall in line, but remember this..

If it was not for peeps with big mouths making valid points, and 'stands' you would currently be riding a Bird with a max power ( at the crank ) of 100BHP, would have an air bag in the tank, would have complusery leg shields, would be unable to fit any after market parts, would not have use of some bus lanes ( notably the M4 and the like ), would be paying to enter London, would still be paying to cross Dartford toll crossing, would not have half the parking spaces they do, and no one would be trying to get tinted visors legalised, plus various other odds and sods that are basically chunks taken from our civil liberties.

 

[RHINO]

For what its worth, I always remove my helmet when buying petrol. Mainly because a lot of the garages employ young girls or at least women, many garages have been hit by raiders or yobs, easy way of robbing a place is to turn up on a bike with a helmet on, easy way of hiding a face, so its no hardship for me to remove a helmet, puts them at ease as well without them having a seed of doubt as to whether I'm about to pull a gun or something.

To me its just common decency to do it, it does not cost me anything to do, apart from a few seconds of my time.

YEH YEH YEH............ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Its about identification of the person, thats why they want us to remove them. There is NO sign asking scallys to remove their hoods, scarves and caps etc or for Muslims to remove their birkas, we are easy picking and i won't tollerate it. Today on the way to and from the Museum rideout we were caught in pissing down rain, i had a bally on, collar entention on my jacket, ear plugs, gloves blah blah and there was NO way i was gonna stand around any longer than necessary and upset all my items. The staff in the stations i visited were welcoming and friendly. If its just my lid and gloves on an average day i will remove them but i WON'T be told to..

 

[RHINO]

And another thing, if its such an issue about helmets hiding ID then why did ALL of us coming back into ENGLAND from France not have to remove our lids at passport control :dunno: :dunno: ..