DO YOU USE A CAR AS WELL AS A BIKE ??

[Tony Williams]

I can drive and have a full licence. For most of my commutes 8mi it's normally cheaper/easier to bike. Plus I am 19 so insurance is laughable, plus I would probably bike less if I had a car (I am afraid of that).

 

[Cubist]

I half drive half cycle at the moment, weather doesn't help, but I get to cycle for up to four hours a day at work anyway

Given some of the greener members on here I hesitate to admit I have a landrover Discovery! I don't feel it really necessary to excuse it given where I live, and my pastimes but most importantly I can get lots of bikes into it. Which is nice.

 

[gavintc]

I half drive half cycle at the moment, weather doesn't help, but I get to cycle for up to four hours a day at work anyway

Given some of the greener members on here I hesitate to admit I have a landrover Discovery! I don't feel it really necessary to excuse it given where I live, and my pastimes but most importantly I can get lots of bikes into it. Which is nice.

I am not knocking you from a green perspective. But, I looked at a Disco and was unimpressed by the luggage area. Yes, it is tall but very short.

 

[Cubist]

I am not knocking you from a green perspective. But, I looked at a Disco and was unimpressed by the luggage area. Yes, it is tall but very short.

The Disco 3 has a big enough load space to fit two bikes with the wheels off in the boot alone. Fold the second row of seats down and I can load two or three bikes in without dropping the wheels. My record is five MTBs with front wheels off. Versatility is the key!

 

[Amanda P]

With careful packing, it's been known to fit six bikes in the back my pickup-with-truck-top, two on the roof and a further two stood on the tailboard.

And a Bompton on the passenger seat.

 

[HLaB]

I've been known to fit 1 bike in the back of my Toyota Starlet (forerunner to the Yaris). The best decision I made was to put drop on my Sirrus, it now fits with only the front wheel removed.

 

[Amanda P]

Mrs Uncle Phil fits her tourer in the back of her Peugeot 106.

But we can fit three Moultons in there, and both of us and a dog.

But we're getting off topic...

 

[theloafer]

just started driving again after 4 years a mate was selling his small van got it cheap ideal for transporting bikes about no need to dissmantle

 

[Alan Biles]

I do around 15000 miles/year in my car. Mainly commuting. Public transport would take longer than cycling but I invariably need to drive while I'm at work too. I do around 2500 miles/year as leisure on my bike.

I don't feel too guilty about it either.

 

[bleakanddivine]

... Þat byrjar hjólreiðir kunna, rúnar lesa ok skrifa. ...
- after Öl 34, Runsten Kyrka

Old Icelandic?

cyclists need to know to read and write the secrets?

 

[soulful dog]

I drive at work and have my own car and I must admint I quite enjoy driving. The car is a necessity for shopping, visiting relatives and ferrying folk to hospital appointments etc, but at the same time I'm also delighted to have cut my mileage a fair bit since getting a bike. It's just a pity the money I hoped to save on petrol seems to have been spent in places like Wiggle!

 

[Carwash]

Old Icelandic?

cyclists need to know to read and write the secrets?

Close. 'Runes', not 'secrets' - although of course the distinction may often be unclear.

 

[yenrod]

>DO YOU USE A CAR AS WELL AS A BIKE ??

No, I use a 2 legs & a bike and buses: cars just get in the way inbetween getting around

 

[bleakanddivine]

Close. 'Runes', not 'secrets' - although of course the distinction may often be unclear.

Thanks
I did some bits of things like Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Gothic, Old English etc at York Uni, and have just started picking up again the Swedish I did there, so seeing those sorts of letters piqued my interest.

 

[MarkF]

I commute and use my cycle for shopping, as does my good lady, we use the car for family stuff, we need it.

I dream about when the kids are older and I don't need to own a car.

Lesiure riding is split 50/50 between cycling and my motorbike/scooter and ideally I'd like just to own a cycle and a scooter.