Just the bike.

[screenman]

Going to run some rubbish to the dump this afternoon, in the car of course, may struggle to get a heavy car load on the bike for the 16 mile each way trip. I really do not fancy strapping 8x 6ft flourescent tubes to the cross bar.

 

[srw]

You'll all be living in large towns/cities, then? With reasonable public transport and no children needing to get to 'activities' various.

My parents didn't have a car until I was about 14, so I used the bike to get to "activities" various.

 

[screenman]

My parents didn't have a car until I was about 14, so I used the bike to get to "activities" various.

Were there cars on the roads that long ago? I also used the bike due to car less parents. I remember doing a cross one snowy day and riding back to Twickenham, I was 14 at the time and freezing cold. Looking back it was only about 20 miles each way but it seemed a lot further.

 

[screenman]

Do you want a medal or something? No one has said no one should have a car, ever. Just that people should think about whether they need one or, if they do, whether they need to use it all the time or not.

That would be nice, it could go with the rest of the collection.

 

[Alan O]

My parents didn't have a car until I was about 14, so I used the bike to get to "activities" various.

As it happens, I was only a bit younger than that when my Dad (my parents were serious cyclists in their youth) got his first car - I think he was about the only person in the street to have one at the time. What he got was a slightly beaten up old Commer minibus, and he used to use it to take us and the rest of the kids in the street on trips to North Wales and the like. They were great days.

 

[Maenchi]

I'm not a cyclist to be green, though that was an opinion people have had of me ,or am I political about it,(anymore) same reasons for not owning a car has nothing to do with my carbon footprint. I'm a cyclist because I love it !. I don't carry too much, a seat pack and medium sized rucksack, which is maybe 6-10 kilo over a two mile flat road. Otherwise just the necessary for a day out. Work; I was allowed some private use of the vehicle; Family live three hundred miles away so even we had a car visiting would be infrequent, modern devices come in very handy for keeping connected. When I was younger there was always someone with a car, and then there is the cost, maybe girls who wanted a guy with a car would not bother with me but that didn't matter. My folks had a car until I was 14...... I'm not critical of car ownership I know for a lot of people they are needed. I just never felt the desire for my own car, driving is so controlled these day, takes all the enjoyment out of it, I just like the freedom of a bike......

 

[Maenchi]

Any of you folks go out for a ride in the moonlight last night ? (sunday 28/10.)

 

[Ajax Bay]

You might like this site to give you moonlight info. Apologies for (joining in) being off topic

 

[Maenchi]

Thanks for your reply and link, i'm still new at this forum, and how to do it, so i'll put my last post in a new thread, right ?

 

[Drago]

I'm terribly lazy. I'm thinking of getting a Brompton so I no longer have to walk along the driveway to my car.

 

[Littgull]

Hi, just wondering.....any members just ride a bike and have no car ?.

Yes, me. No car since January 2017 and won't be getting one. Got 5 bikes though!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I was car free for about 30 years but now have a car, when we were first married I could either afford a mortgage or afford a car I couldn't afford both, so I went for the mortgage and we brought up our family with out having our own car, we used to walk, use the bus, coach or train, sometimes I'd hire a car for a holiday or day trip, one of the places I worked at the time used to keep a pool car in the yard and sometimes I'd borrow that for a day trip.

 

[Maenchi]

Anyway ...



Excellent stuff Maenchi. I know of quite a few people who have done the same, especially young people who don't seem to see the need to own a private car. We can only hope it's the way things will go in the future.

Thanks for the 'excellent' can't remember the last time somebody said that. I can't help but think that it will stay a dream that things could ever go that way apart from maybe islands like Sark and a few others I've heard of dotted around our coast that I can't remember the names of .

 

[pjd57]

Got my first car when I was 30.
Sold my last one about 10 weeks ago age 60.
I had decided that I wasn't going to replace it and thought it would be in a year or two , then on impulse I stuck it on gumtree and it was gone in minutes.
No regrets.

 

[bigjim]

Got my first car when I was 17. A beat up old Ford Pop. Terrible thing. I got sick of trying to run girls home on my motorbike or walking them to bus stops and have to settle for a quick snog before the bus turned up. The car changed all that. Being big and ugly, having a car in those car less days improved my chances no end.
I don't like the cold, wind and rain. So I run/share a small car and I sometimes when the roads are quiet, which is not often, enjoy driving. The bike is just for leisure/fun/fitness for me. I used to commute on it sometimes when I was working, but even then, it was a sunny day thing only.