I wonder if the "get off the road" mentality will soon reach tipping-point ...
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Sheffield_Tiger
Legendary Member
Over Christmas, my car had a flat battery and was VERY low on fuel - I charged the battery but needed to run it a while with lights and heater on just to make sure that it wasn't flattening at low revs, before I risked taking it anywhere. So obviously i needed petrol, so I took my jerry can in my pannier (my old tatty pannier, not my Ortleibs!)
The puzzled look on all the motorist's faces as they gawped at a cyclist filling his bike with petrol!
I use my car rarely (in fact it's been off the road the last month as I haven't bothered to get it MOTed, got better things to spend money on) I was shocked by the cost of filling a little jerry can!
The puzzled look on all the motorist's faces as they gawped at a cyclist filling his bike with petrol!
I use my car rarely (in fact it's been off the road the last month as I haven't bothered to get it MOTed, got better things to spend money on) I was shocked by the cost of filling a little jerry can!
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
The price of fuel is getting crazy. Just popping a tenner in my car doesn't get me anywhere. Glad I'm not working 30 miles away these days 
mickle
innit
- Location
- 53.933606, -1.076131
£87 to fill our Volvo 340 wagon. It hurts. How long before it's £100?
Hey - it's a small price to pay if it gets people riding bikes!
Hey - it's a small price to pay if it gets people riding bikes!
pshore
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Last contour N of Cambridge
If it goes up much more we won't be getting the 'you don't pay road tax' line. It'll be 'you don't pay for petrol'.
Cycling seems to be on the decline where I work 
Less bikes in the rack than ever. Hopefully just because a lot of people are doing lates, although I love riding home on empty streets after doing a late!
If it starts to pick up when the weather improves, and more people turn to cycling as the fuel prices rise, then management better bloody get round to installing a second shower!
Less bikes in the rack than ever. Hopefully just because a lot of people are doing lates, although I love riding home on empty streets after doing a late!If it starts to pick up when the weather improves, and more people turn to cycling as the fuel prices rise, then management better bloody get round to installing a second shower!
We've just decided that we definitely don't need our second car. It frequently goes 2-3 weeks without being driven. The money we save on not running it would mean that the rare occasions when we do need a second one we would be able to afford a taxi, and we'd still save money. And it would stop me being lazy - a couple of times I have elected to drive if I'm feeling a bit tired or the weather is bad.
downfader
extimus uero philosophus
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- 'ampsheeeer
mr_cellophane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Essex
I found a garage at only £1.30 for diesel today. Cheapest I have seen for weeks.
markg0vbr
Über Member
- Location
- rawmarsh rotherham
i think it might be a good idea to invest in electric bikes, as prices have come down and lets face it some one so lazy they will drive less than 200 yards to get a bacon sandwich, i see this every day! will they exercise. there are people out there how will go with out just to put petrol in there car, do not bank on the rising price of petrol getting people out of the tin box.
i have a friend how has a shop full of mobility scooters and he is raking it in, he say most of the people how get scooters have not that much wrong with them, when he sees them again a year or so later they have piled on weight and there mobility has dropped, he trys telling them they would be far better with a electric assist trike but there kids normally talk them out of it, insisting on a scooter.
the fundamental problem we have is we have generations of people how have never ridden a bicycle on the road and are terrified of traffic, most of which is driven by people how have never ridden a bike on the road and do not understand how to behave around bikes. my 19yr old lad has stopped riding his bike on the road because of abuse and threatening behaviour in Rotherham, having glass bottles thrown at you from passing cars and a constant stream of abuse dose that, i have to wear a helmet on my trike and have tow sturdy flag poles at the back of my recumbent trike seat as i was knocked out with a rolled up news paper curtsey of a weight van passenger travelling over 30mph, i will not give you a full list but bottles, cups of hot Coffey/ tea, spitting, fruit and fags are common.
bikes in Rotherham are like hens teeth i can go days with out seeing one and i can not remember the last time i encounterd kids riding along the road not the path.
a compulsory "understanding bicycles" preferably piratical (yes i am in cuckoo cuckoo land) and a change in the law making drivers automatic at fault in any incident with a bike, might make a difference.
i have a friend how has a shop full of mobility scooters and he is raking it in, he say most of the people how get scooters have not that much wrong with them, when he sees them again a year or so later they have piled on weight and there mobility has dropped, he trys telling them they would be far better with a electric assist trike but there kids normally talk them out of it, insisting on a scooter.
the fundamental problem we have is we have generations of people how have never ridden a bicycle on the road and are terrified of traffic, most of which is driven by people how have never ridden a bike on the road and do not understand how to behave around bikes. my 19yr old lad has stopped riding his bike on the road because of abuse and threatening behaviour in Rotherham, having glass bottles thrown at you from passing cars and a constant stream of abuse dose that, i have to wear a helmet on my trike and have tow sturdy flag poles at the back of my recumbent trike seat as i was knocked out with a rolled up news paper curtsey of a weight van passenger travelling over 30mph, i will not give you a full list but bottles, cups of hot Coffey/ tea, spitting, fruit and fags are common.
bikes in Rotherham are like hens teeth i can go days with out seeing one and i can not remember the last time i encounterd kids riding along the road not the path.
a compulsory "understanding bicycles" preferably piratical (yes i am in cuckoo cuckoo land) and a change in the law making drivers automatic at fault in any incident with a bike, might make a difference.
CharlieB
Junior Walker and the Allstars
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- Therivermeadowatthepileofstones
Crikey, Mark - you make Rotherham sound like the Badlands.
And on the highlighted point, isn't that the law in the Netherlands, or am I wrong?
mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
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- Egremont, Cumbria
Er, I come from Rotherham and although a bit extreme, I could identify with most of that
markg0vbr
Über Member
- Location
- rawmarsh rotherham
i got a lot of hate as i used to do my Daly rid after work 4:20 back home about 6:10 this put me in direct conflict with the fat soap watching morons that would happily kill a merer cyclist for holding them up a micro second.
i now go out after 6pm the roads are delightful empty, the place is a ghost town when the idiot box calls, this is the town when Jaime Oliver tried sorting out the school dines the mums where passing junk food to the kids at the fence.
i now go out after 6pm the roads are delightful empty, the place is a ghost town when the idiot box calls, this is the town when Jaime Oliver tried sorting out the school dines the mums where passing junk food to the kids at the fence.
