Bye bye car!
Richie G
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Well, after sitting down and weighing up the pros and cons, me and Mrs G are becoming a one car family. I'd looked back through my diary and worked out i'd driven to work twice since september - once the day after a half marathon and once when i was ill and got sent home anyway! We've traded in both our cars and bought a four year old Seat Ibiza that Kirsty can use to work. So i'm now totally reliant on my bikes to get about - and hopefully with a bit more spare cash to spend on......bike stuff! 
Now what's the odds we get the wettest spring/summer on record!? Has anyone else taken the plunge?
Rich
Now what's the odds we get the wettest spring/summer on record!? Has anyone else taken the plunge?Rich
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it's loads better
:shock:
Gats
Petrol @ £160pm
mersey tunnel @ £52pm
and all the extras MOT/TAX
I stopped driving on saturday.. Its going to be a bit of a shock to the system - luckilly i live right near an asda otherwise the missus would have cut my nads off.. I cant justify spending all that cash to pollute the earth and get no excercise..
That's expensive! What were you driving? Mind you, now i'm an old codger over 30 insurance isn't too bad!
My MD's son has a Golf R32. He's in his early 20's and his insurance is around £7000 a year!!!!!! And yes, that is seven thousand pounds!!!!
We are currently a one car family. We share a VW golf that also gets used for the farm (grapes, oranges & potatoes). This is a minor inconvenience as sometimes I have to wait to deliver more than 2 bikes. Sometimes I even deliver bikes using the local bus service.
But I suppose as business picks up I may be forced to buy a bigger vehicle. I'm 30 and never owned a car by the way. I'm looking at something like an Opel Zafira, but I'll hold it off as long as possible. I only just got my Spanish license, and at least now hiring a car is definitely also an option on the days that I need something bigger. Prior to that, my partner did all the driving.
Sometimes I wish my clients were a bit more understanding though. Everyone just assumes we have a great big gas-guzzling van. *sigh*
:shock: :shock: :shock:
If your MD's paying for that you should be asking for a pay rise!
it cost me £500.
insurance is about £200 a year
i have just taxed it for another 6 months (£99 ooyah!)
H.G. Wells.
My wife does still have her car for work and carting the kids around, while I take my daughter to nursery in the bike seat most mornings. It helps that my bike commute is only 5mins by the shortest route though!
My insurance was cheap-ish and miles fairly low before, but I still reckon I'm saving about £1k a year all told. Its already been spent on the bike mind... :roll:
See, they return, and bring us with them.
I drive 60,000 miles a year with my job and have serious envy for people who can cycle to work.
Are you sure you are on the right forum? Maybe Top Gear have a forum that would be of more interest??
Must be another slip of the keyboard, but while you're here, why not try cycling the 2 miles? You might even enjoy it.
A little cold blue steel
I'll cut the night like a razor blade
Till I feel the way I wanna feel"
[Cheap Trick]
Wifey, who does have a car, was speaking to someone recently who just could not get her head round the fact we only have 1 car. She said it was impossible to get this woman to understand that we don't need a car each.
That's what I sold to go on a stag weekend.
It took 45 mins to occasionally well over an hour, every day. I doubt I ever put it into top gear, and I think it was 'killing' both of us!.
When I was left with just my mates bike (and a hang-over
Never looked back.
The Scenic is a hang-up to playing in band and was used week in week out carrying amps/cabs/lights etc, then everyday on a 60mile each way commute. We work in opposite directions from home and although I mostly commute to my now much more local job by bike (except when injured) there are times where we both have things to do after work so need to have independent means of transport. I suppose in reality the MR2 and GSX600 are really just toys and maybe selling the toys and the Scenic to get something like a Volvo T5 (fast sensible toy!) might be a good plan? (<- good grief, I must be getting old :shock: )
Spent over a grand on a bike but wouldn't dream of spending anything like that on a car.
how do i transport a keyboard, bass guitar and amp on a bike?
yes i do need to do this regularly
that will be all
trying to get GT James banned since tuesday
We did this back in December, traded 2 Estate cars for 1 Citroen C8 bus (we have 2 teenagers and an 8 y/o and pick-up 2 other children as part of a school-run car-share). So far been a great decision, OK buying a new bus ain't cheap but it has been great utility so far. Me and Mrs FF work near each other and within a 30 minute walk, so we have options of walking and cycling to work. and one of us does daily, and occasionaly we both bike Even doing all of the "Dad's Taxi" stuff, we've managed to avoid any issues to date with a bit more thought and planning.
We um'd and Ah'd for about 9 months before biting the bullet. Absolutely worth it.
The pessimists of this world are rarely disappointed....
Fab's TCR1