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[papasmurf]

Bullet Whisperer, as some of us have found out, having a "brew up" inside a garage is somewhat "character building."

[Bullet Whisperer]

I guess that's one way of looking at it, Papasmurf! Regards, Paul.

[papasmurf]

Bullet Whisperer, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche

[Valsp]

And there's me thinking that they were concerned with making sure that they clipped their petrol hoses up securely!!

[Adrian]

It would help - certainly would have done in this case. There have been cases of new VW mini-buses going up in flames when the flexible petrol pipe came adrift a few years ago, I think there was a product recall for this.



B.W., if you're concerned about this topic attracting less attention than more frivolous stuff, I'd just like to mention that if I really had my priorities in order I probably wouldn't be bothering with Royal Enfields at all! Not that I can speak for my fellow forum users, of course...



A.

[CGT 535]

Paul

Thanks for a timely reminder! I went out and spent 55 quid on something I hope to never use today - but I feel safer having done so.

[Martin]

Was reminded today how lethal gasoline is whilst taking off a bank
of 4 carbs several times from my Kawa gpz1000, and pissing fuel every
where near a relatively safe LED lamp. Years ago was doing hasty repairs
with a Rover SDI fuel pump with car barely jacked up a foot or so. fuel
leaking onto usual bulb leadlamp which imploded. Trying to put out the
inevitable fire in panic with bare hands.still scarred. Luckily at a
friend's commercial garage had ample extinguishers. In another context,
was reading half a hour ago of the demise of the Japanese aircraft carrier
'Taiho" in central Pacific whose aviation fuel tanks were damaged, the
fumes spread through the entire ship, and one spark it was a blazing
crippled inferno. Glad you brought up the theme as my extinguishers
pressure is way down, hence useless, and will buy another real soon

[Bullet Whisperer]

If this has helped anyone avoid a future disaster, that is great. For the record, I still have the remainder of the burns on the back of my left hand - at the time I thought I had just singed the hairs on the back of my hands and grazed my elbow, after tripping over the burning bike while trying to take it outside, but three weeks later, the last of the scabs are just coming off. Burns are clearly very nasty, mine must have been very minor and could have been a lot worse. Take care! Paul.