GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
What do you do with the time you save?
Going carless
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Sara_H
Guru
I think it includes depreciation new or second hand - but you're right, it was an average. Some will spend much more, some much less.
Agree with you about bus fare - it's extortionate. It costs me £5.20 to get to the city centre and back with my son, a journey of four miles each way, so as a rule we go on the bikes!
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Deleted member 1258
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I've just gone the other way, I brought a car about eighteen months ago, for the previous thirty years I was car free, we brought up our family without a car, we walked, used buses, occasionally got lifts and I cycled everywhere, for shopping we either used the bus or walked and used a large shopping trolley. holidays, we either took coach holidays or hired a car, now the kids have left, the mortgages are finished off, there's a little cash spare and we are now in our sixties and perhaps a little less mobile so a car makes sense.
young Ed
Veteran
@L14M and @CarlP
i cycle most places as i simply love it and prefer riding to sitting in a damn car! most people in my year would struggle with 10 miles or even 5, but having cycled now on and off for years comparatively my things are probably like elephants
@Cuchilo
one day will save the pennies and get a nice road bike and a nice kayak and a nice sprinter and kit it out as i camper and tour Scandinavia riding the long flat nice open roads and paddling the lakes and fjords!
Cheers Ed
i cycle most places as i simply love it and prefer riding to sitting in a damn car! most people in my year would struggle with 10 miles or even 5, but having cycled now on and off for years comparatively my things are probably like elephants
@Cuchilo
one day will save the pennies and get a nice road bike and a nice kayak and a nice sprinter and kit it out as i camper and tour Scandinavia riding the long flat nice open roads and paddling the lakes and fjords!
Cheers Ed
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
Ah, Ed, you may change your mind a bit when you are old enough to actually be the driver... means you are in charge, not just sitting there! But I can tell you will never lose your love of cycling!
Not like that other guy who used to film everything.
young Ed
Veteran
i would much, much rather be in a tractor than a car! thus why i will end up as a sheep farmer
Cheers Ed
uclown2002
Guru
- Location
- Harrogate
KneesUp
Guru
I have to do Sheffield-London-Sheffield tomorrow. To be honest I'm glad I'm not cycling, or travelling by tractor, @young Ed
The alternatives are:
train - takes too long to get to the train station on a Sunday morning / too expensive to park if I drive / trains always seem to be cancelled for engineering works on Sunday / 2 x returns to London are more than it costs to go by car / takes to long to get from train station to the bit of London I need to go to
coach - as train, except slower and less pleasant
Car it is then. Sometimes they're the only option.
The alternatives are:
train - takes too long to get to the train station on a Sunday morning / too expensive to park if I drive / trains always seem to be cancelled for engineering works on Sunday / 2 x returns to London are more than it costs to go by car / takes to long to get from train station to the bit of London I need to go to
coach - as train, except slower and less pleasant
Car it is then. Sometimes they're the only option.
young Ed
Veteran
A few extra full stops and a non-capital 'I' and an before a vowel is all he's missed!Do they not teach English at your school?
Why not the tractor?! some of them do 45mph or so and full air-con' and air suspension seats and they just crush any traffic or road works and you have full on board field mapping etc;very useful in London!I have to do Sheffield-London-Sheffield tomorrow. To be honest I'm glad I'm not cycling, or travelling by tractor, @young Ed
The alternatives are:
train - takes too long to get to the train station on a Sunday morning / too expensive to park if I drive / trains always seem to be cancelled for engineering works on Sunday / 2 x returns to London are more than it costs to go by car / takes to long to get from train station to the bit of London I need to go to
coach - as train, except slower and less pleasant
Car it is then. Sometimes they're the only option.
Cheers Ed
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Unfortunately a car is needed .
I do cycle commute to work 20 mile round trip although there is no public transport to where i work and i cant give an exact finish time as its work till done kind of job .
Wife has the main use of the car with me ans a named driver and she uses it mainly for shopping , erm mebbe 2-3 miles away for a family of 4 shop , ferrying kids one of whom has kidney problems and need regular check ups at children's hospital and the wife gets tired easily due to her medical issues .
I do cycle commute to work 20 mile round trip although there is no public transport to where i work and i cant give an exact finish time as its work till done kind of job .
Wife has the main use of the car with me ans a named driver and she uses it mainly for shopping , erm mebbe 2-3 miles away for a family of 4 shop , ferrying kids one of whom has kidney problems and need regular check ups at children's hospital and the wife gets tired easily due to her medical issues .
John the Canuck
..a long way from somewhere called Home..
- Location
- Strathaven, Lanarkshire
............... thus why i will end up as a sheep farmer
bad career move..!.....................
SWSteve
Guru
- Location
- Bristol...ish
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
As long as he can count the sheep in the field he will be fine , either that or he is to busy thinking about bikes to pay attention in class
