Helmet removal notice at Petrol stations

[Rabb]

I never remove my helmet at Petrol Stations out of principal.
The principal being that it takes ages to get my helmet & gloves off and then back on again.
If I have a request to do so - I don't buy any more petrol from that particular station ever.
In the winter or in bad weather I insist on not removing my kit.
Do you refuse to remove yours?

[matthews677]

I always remove mine. I get fed up of being asked to get off the bike when I'm sitting on it to refuel so found it easier to take the helmet off. That said though, I can take mine off with the gloves on

[Toph]

haven't ever been asked... I always keep my helmet on though..

[wiltshire builders]

If there's a sign I'll take it off as it's clearly their policy. It's their shop and they have the right to serve who they like just as we have the right to shop where we like.
If someone TELLS me to take it off they can't get stuffed.
I've flatly refused before and just out stared the person on the till.
I'm the same with that rubbish about not using a mobile phone on a forecourt.
"It might cause a spark?!"
How the hell do they think the internal combustion engine works?

[Swanny]

I never remove mine unless I want too and have gone elsewhere for fuel when told to do so. **** 'em

[XJ]

I never remove mine, if they want the money for the fuel I have just put in then they can allow me to wear my helmet.

[Burbler]

I never remove mine unless I want too and have gone elsewhere for fuel when told to do so. **** 'em

Me too.

[fd2526]

I have a flip front, always open it & move my scarf off my face a little. Only once been told to take helmet off & that was while I was queuing 2 vehicles back from the pump! Went somewhere else & never been back there!

[Trev]

If signs up or asked then I do. Like WB says, their garage, their rules, if you popped round my house to borrow a cup of sugar I would expect you take your helmet off before I let you at the sugar tin ; )

Besides, having a friend who went through the experience of being behind the till at a garage when it got raided (by helmet wearing scumbags as it happens) I can sympathise

[Swanny]

If I came around you house just to borrow some sugar I would of course take my helmet off. But helmet wearing scumbags intent on holding up a garage aren't going to remove their helmets when asked to, whereas someone sat on his bike waiting for the pump to be switched on probably isn't planning on holding up the garage.

Garages have rules and so do I. If they want to sell me petrol then they do it under my terms and one of those is that I keep my hat on if I want to

Von Grumble says it best




Anyway sugar's really bad for you but that's another thread