Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Annoying or just a PMT moment?

[Derek]

For the past 5 years I've been wearing a flip-up helmet and nobody has asked me to remove it yet. It will be interesting to see if they try to apply the same ruling to me while I'm wearing it.
A couple of times over the years I have had them refuse to turn the pump on unless I removed my helmet. I just rode off and fueled up elsewhere, of course that isn't always possible if you're out of petrol in the middle of nowhere.
As said above, it's such a hassle with gloves, helmet, specs, earplugs, wallet an so on. If this becomes common place it's best to cause as much inconvenience for everyone else as possible.
I used to do this on the Tay Bridge when it had tolls for bikes. Stop at the toll booth, kill the engine, get off the bike and put it on the stand, pull off gloves, unzip jacket, get out wallet, hand over a pound so that they have to give you change, fumble about puting the change in a pocket, zip the jacket up again, gloves back on again, bike off the stand, bring it up to compression, ease it over with the valve lifter then kick it over and it into life, slip it into gear and drive away (I rode a Gold Star in those days).
Eventually the tolls were dropped for bikes because the were more bother than they were worth. I can't say it was because of me but I certainly contributed