Hi thereI think I might be the "drongo"! Perhaps we might have a discussion? When a bike falls over and loses petrol, there is the danger of a hot exhaust or a smoker who might light a match, causing a fire. In this instance, some kind person lifted the bike that fell over and moved it. The rider stood in the pool of petrol and examined his sore knee. I poured detergent from the gas station on the pool of petrol because detergent binds with hydrocarbons to reduce the potential for a fire, especially one where there were other bikes within 3 metres (that no-one thought to move), also full of petrol. Wiping up spilled petrol with newspaper creates a second source of combustion because petrol still evaporates from the paper, thus creating an ideal circumstance to turn the holder of the paper into a human torch. I wonder why at racetracks, when a bike goes over, the rider is expected move away from it upwind and the marshals spray the petrol with foam. Agreed, the resultant mess is slippery, but that might be better than combustible.
