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  1. #1 Beijing gas station refueling 
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    Noticed this on a Chinese forum ...



    Prior to being allowed to fill up at some stations, a pic is being taken of your plate & blue book while you are inside registering your driving license (while being recorded by the security camera inside ... "please remove your helmet").

    OK, this is getting ridiculous. Who dreams up these policies / practices?

    There is a guy that lives in my building and rides one of those Turtle things, without plates. He siphons gas out of his car to fill up his bike. All done in the underground parking lot, which is poorly ventilated. Sometimes, the area reeks of gas fumes.

    EDIT: Oh yeah, I wonder if those gas station jockeys can be enticed to sell the plate numbers & bike details (out of the blue book) to the counterfeiting crooks ... 20 rmb per picture? Incredible.
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    They should hire Booz Allen and automate the whole process so you as the driver won't even know it's happening. Hey, I hear there's a former Booz surveillance guy down in Hong Kong who's probably looking for work right now...

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    Hey Mr Euph - just a few hundred meters south of your old homestead, next to the Honda Car dealer, is a gas station that drives me crazy. I need to take my blood pressure meds before I fill up at that station.

    One week, I'm almost strip searched to get gas. Next week, they're pleasant & smiley and quickly fill my tank without so much as a peep or a query. Following week, back to the gestapo tactics. Once, a small group of us (4) came in ... this crazy old lady came running out and told us we had to push our bikes (with the engines off) from the station's driveway entrance up to the pumps. We were already at the pumps but ... no no no ... she wanted us to leave and start over. We were all on large, heavy bikes .. all fully legal ... and a couple worth several hundred thousand rmb. And while this is going on, a POS Xiali sedan sputters up to the pumps and gets a happy fill.

    None of this makes any sense. It certainly has no impact on illegal bikes and/or riders.
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    Luckily I don't have these problems. We have the 'fill up in the corner using a dangerous kettle because it's safer' routine. A few stations don't insist on it so I only go to those.
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    I feel so lucky out here. No license checks, no stupid teapots, just pull up to any station and fill up. They also don't mind filling up jerry cans, which i've been refused in most other parts of china.

    On the other hand the bike ban is enforced pretty strictly. And they don't allow their citizen to even hold E or D licenses.



    Also i have yet to get a fill up without them spilling petrol all over my bike. Sure why would they be able to do their job?
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    Milton and I were (no idea where we were but may have been Sichuan) somewhere, and it was one of the stupid teapot provinces and at a station where it was strictly enforced. There were 2 small pots each big enough to make tea for an entire 30 person danwei but no more. Milton got in early getting the "good pot". I got the leaky one. Yeah, leaky one!!

    There I was carrying it from the pump to my bike which of course was parked 30m away against the right hand side of the gas station. The walk to the bike created a stream of gasoline from pump to bike from the leaking pot. When I arrive at the Jialing and tried to get the spout into (or somewhere near) the opening on my gas tank I discovered that too was damaged. Now I have gasoline leaking from not just the bottom but now also the top and now all over my bike and over Motokai. As I was trying to salvage this ever so delicately Milton was my advocate firing at the attendant how in the world this could be safer than filling up at the pump??

    Gasoline everywhere: Ground, Bike, Clothes, Motokai

    Really? This is safer?


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    * The best is when the station which by law must enforces the policy (I get that) actually puts care into their teapots. I appreciate those who attach the Garden Hose to the spout so you can actually pour the gasoline into your tank without risking self-immolation.
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    A subscriber of mine has just had his CB400 confiscated by the police in Beijing while filling up. Apparently while fillng up(using a fake plate) a cop car drove right up to him, they took his keys and told him to report to a nearby station with his papers...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Serpentza View Post
    A subscriber of mine has just had his CB400 confiscated by the police in Beijing while filling up. Apparently while fillng up(using a fake plate) a cop car drove right up to him, they took his keys and told him to report to a nearby station with his papers...
    There are an increasing number of these stories, as the people who believe "it will never happen to me" are caught. One only has to take a cursory glance at the Chinese boards to read about such incidents, or watch BTV's (Beijing TV) daily Traffic Report (dinner time) - it seems to devote one day/week to those evil motorcycles, usually showing some poor sap being carted off, often in tears (good for effect).

    On the Chinese boards, I've read about undercover policemen at gas stations. Personally, I wouldn't have a clue what to look for. A Chinese person would probably know.

    BTW, that "report to a nearby police station with papers" is ominous - be interesting to know the outcome. I know, personally, two foreigners who were told the same. One ended up in admin detention. The other was due to leave the country in 2 days, and never reported. He's never been back.
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    Strangely (given the government meeting in Beijing the past few days), over the past couple of weeks I have not once been asked for my Blue Book or DL. Maybe half a dozen fills on various bikes, both 京A & 京B plated. Calm before the storm? Or just backing off? No idea.

    I've seen on Chinese forums that some riders are now calling 110 (the police) each time a station asks for documents, apparently successfully getting the station to back off. I've no idea how that works.
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    Just filled motorcycle only pump near WangJing dude in his X6 behind screaming. Lost his shit. Yelled at everyone and refused to move. Staff refused to fill his bmw. Funny as shit.
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