Buying fuel for bikes

[Iminquarantine]

This is for London, which seems to have less fuel than anywhere else.

Are there any filling stations which are reserving fuel for bikes? I saw some Uber Eats/Deliveroo riders at a BP station which was closed for cars, but I didn't go and have a look.

[snagzie]

Why would a garage reserve fuel for bikes?

[steveo3002]

bikes , nhs , keyworkers , blah

[mikey_b]

I filled up earlier, just queued up with everyone else. They'd run out of diseasel so half the cars and vans in the queue were being turned away anyway.

It was actually quite well organised, someone on the forecourt holding back the queue of cars at a spot where diesels could escape the queue, and then directing cars to specific pumps as they became free. And a limit of £35 per vehicle to conserve stock whilst still giving people enough to not encourage them to just join the queue again. Annoying to have to queue up for ~10 minutes, but it was quite good natured and no arguments or people pushing in etc.

[Iminquarantine]

snagzie said:

Why would a garage reserve fuel for bikes?

Because there are a lot of goods which get transported by bikes, which don’t require much fuel but also have a low range. So they have to fill up with as little as 1/20th the amount a car uses a lot more often, or nobody gets their pizza for dinner.

[PIGINAWIG]

Yeah, delivering pizza would make you a key worker innit......

[steveo3002]

would you like us to bang saucepans when you go past ?

[snagzie]

Iminquarantine said:

snagzie said:

Why would a garage reserve fuel for bikes?

Because there are a lot of goods which get transported by bikes, which don’t require much fuel but also have a low range. So they have to fill up with as little as 1/20th the amount a car uses a lot more often, or nobody gets their pizza for dinner.

Hardly a priority though is it.

I could understand priority given to NHS etc, but sod all to do with what kind of vehicle it is.

[Iminquarantine]

I will stop by the local pizza shop and ask the assorted scooter riders what they are doing for fuel. I can't imagine they are spending up to an hour in a queue for 4 litres of fuel every day.

[OverSteery]

Iminquarantine said:

snagzie said:

Why would a garage reserve fuel for bikes?

Because there are a lot of goods which get transported by bikes, which don’t require much fuel but also have a low range. So they have to fill up with as little as 1/20th the amount a car uses a lot more often, or nobody gets their pizza for dinner.

Indeed there is an up side to the fuel shortage.
Fewer badly ridden scooters on the roads, few resultant places taken in casualty. All those people too lazy to sort their own food out will have to get of their a*ses and burn a few calories.

I assume OP was on a wind up anyway.... No one to delivery you a MacDonald's breakfast - the very definition of existential crisis.

[Ed.]

OverSteery said:

Iminquarantine said:

snagzie said:

Why would a garage reserve fuel for bikes?

Because there are a lot of goods which get transported by bikes, which don’t require much fuel but also have a low range. So they have to fill up with as little as 1/20th the amount a car uses a lot more often, or nobody gets their pizza for dinner.

Indeed there is an up side to the fuel shortage.
Fewer badly ridden scooters on the roads, few resultant places taken in casualty. All those people too lazy to sort their own food out will have to get of their a*ses and burn a few calories.

I assume OP was on a wind up anyway.... No one to delivery you a MacDonald's breakfast - the very definition of existential crisis.

Be honest now, are you sure they won't just get in there cars, go to the supermarket and then add to fuel queues?

[KTMsm]

Iminquarantine said:

I will stop by the local pizza shop and ask the assorted scooter riders what they are doing for fuel. I can't imagine they are spending up to an hour in a queue for 4 litres of fuel every day.

I always fill 2 20L jerry cans so I can fill my bikes from home, luckily I have 20L sat here as I believe many stations have banned the filling of cans - tough if you need it for mowers / chainsaws etc

[Donbot]

Try to avoid the temptation to skip the queue. I thought I was going to get my head kicked in the other day

People are very angry at the moment.

[Drawweight]

Little story kind of related.

I used to deliver milk to a petrol station that had a little shop attached.

During the last fuel crisis everyone wondered how I was able to get fuel when nobody else could.

Well the petrol station was used by the local fire brigade to fuel up their engine. So even if it was ‘closed as we’ve no diesel or petrol’ they always made sure there was enough in the diesel tank to keep the fire engine going (And the local milkman)

Sometimes it’s not what you know but who you know.

[mak]

Fuc"%ing ridiculous all these selfish cun%ts draining the nations fuel when they probably don't even need it. God help us when the economy collapses and its every man for him self.
I had to cue up for an hour yesterday to fill up 20 jerry cans for the lawn mower, my grass is growing like fuc% .

[Donbot]

[Fundoreen]

The what if your electric car/bike runs out of electricity crowd have shut up this week.

[BobSaunders]

Fundoreen said:

The what if your electric car/bike runs out of electricity crowd have shut up this week.

I wish the vegans would follow..

[J__Wood]

J__Wood said:

mak said:

I had to cue up for an hour yesterday to fill up 20 jerry cans for the lawn mower, my grass is growing like fuc% .

An hour, must have snookered your lawn mowing?

[Iminquarantine]

I think a lot of people in this forum don’t use bikes for normal transport. There is a big difference in queuing for an hour in a car when you then get a 600 mile range afterwards, compared to a bike or scooter where you might get 80 to 200 miles.