Maybe I'm weird but I always sit on my ride when fueling - scared of splashing fuel I guess - always mount/dismount from the left side and keep the fuel tanks to my left - what can I say, I'm left handed!

 

Don't care too much for a crotch full of gas due to an over fill....bike on stand and fill while standing next to the bike.

 

Looks like I'm in the minority here. I always sit on my bike to fuel up - with the kickstand down - but the bike held straight. My old Heritage only had a 4.2 gallon tank, so needed to squeeze as much gas in there as possible. Fast forward to my new Ultra, I still do it that way. Geez - maybe I should try getting into the 21st century and change my fueling habits! From a gas on clothes perspective, certainly makes sense to fuel up off the bike.

 

I never sit on the bike to fill it. One, it's too awkward with the cover in the way and two, the few times that I have tried it (now we are talking about keeping the bike upright right?) and have gotten a complete fill up, my buds decide that now is a good time for a longer break so we park the bikes off to the side. As soon as I lean it over on the jiffy stand my gas starts to drain out of the overflow tube and my $$ is now pissing out onto the ground. BTW, I don't sit when I **** either.

 

I guess some people never have bad chit happen to them. Me, I seem to be the born loser. So I look for avoiding trouble. I would never sit on a bike level and refuel it.

I'm glad nothing has ever happened to you in 37 years. But a bad shut off valve, a foot slipping, or even some chick talking on her cell phone pulling in behind you and bumping you. I stand beside the bike with both hands od the nozzel/hose.

My grandad (before they invented plastic jugs) use to drive around with gas in the trunk of his car in glass gallon jugs. Nothing ever happened to him, but I wouldn't recomend it.

 

I never have or would sit and fill. Fill till it clicks and forget it.

 

Another minority here I guess..
Sit and fill 99.3% of the time! .3? hahhahaha

Pete

 

This sounds like something you will be able to put in a movie some day... kind of like when the kid sticks his tongue on the post in "Cristmas story"! If you put your head on the pavement you can tell the distance of cars comming down the highway...Just a tip.

 

nowthat you have all these ways these guys fill up.maybe you can write a book, "Harleys for Dummies" On a side note,,,,,an attendant can make youget off your bike while fueling?? That sounds so wrong

 

someplace someone told me years ago you NEVER sit on a bike while fueling just in case for some reason it catches on fire I do not want to be on the darn thing so my vote is the wife gets off [ if she is on mine ] and I stand beside it and filler up