No substitute for a car?

[Linford]

he was comparing making a journey on a bike or a car in bad weather, where there happens to be a hill en-route that a car or a bike can't go up.

You would have to ditch the car, whereas you wouldn't have to ditch the bike.

Is that clear enough?

Ah, right, I was not on a journey, I was playing after work one evening. Had I really needed to get up there, I would have gone back around to the top by another of the routes . There was no prints whatsoever in the snow up to the point I stopped at, and you certainly would think hard about riding down an ice covered 1:3 road with 18" of snow on top of it. This is the only place/time the car has ever been defeated by the conditions. It is also nice and warm inside and can drag 7 passengers through there. It coped with the next road over no problem which is a 1:4 and again a challenge for anyone cycling to ride - even in the dry

 

[400bhp]

Feck me you're hard work.

 

[wmtlynx]

Be interesting to see how I get on this winter using the bike. Just have to remind myself of a couple of years ago, when my Asda mountain bike got me 5.5 miles to work in heavy snow, when car and public transport were unavailable.

 

[theclaud]

pedestrians riding cycles [...] pedestrians driving cars

Known to people who haven't given up altogether on sense as "cyclists" and "drivers" respectively.

 

[Linford]

Known to people who haven't given up altogether on sense as "cyclists" and "drivers" respectively.

I have questioned your many times Claudine.

The biggest problem is requirement, and the laws demanding things which are fir for purpose (goddamnit)

 

[theclaud]

I have questioned your many times Claudine.

The biggest problem is requirement, and the laws demanding things which are fir for purpose (goddamnit)

Is it just me, or is this gibberish?

 

[DRHysted]

At the moment there is no substitute for the car. With the hours I'm doing and the fact that my next day off may be the 16th to maximise sleep it can only be the car.
I am having withdrawal symptoms and the last time I rode was Monday, which I'm not sure to take as a good or bad sign.


Opps sorry just got the thread on topic.

 

[Linford]

Is it just me, or is this gibberish?

Put in simple terms, the 4x4 whilst barely used, is by far the one which circumstances dictate must be kept roadworthy at all costs.

No 4x4 = very expensive Hay, and bedding, as well as £80+ call out fee's before treatment starts from the vets (x2 in the last 4 weeks)

I don't need a cycle, but I want one. I don't really want the 4x4, but I need it

 

[400bhp]

Put in simple terms, the 4x4 whilst barely used, is by far the one which circumstances dictate must be kept roadworthy at all costs.

No 4x4 = very expensive Hay, and bedding, as well as £80+ call out fee's before treatment starts from the vets (x2 in the last 4 weeks)

I don't need a cycle, but I want one. I don't really want the 4x4, but I need it

No you don't.

 

[400bhp]

Put in simple terms, the 4x4 whilst barely used, is by far the one which circumstances dictate must be kept roadworthy at all costs.

No 4x4 = very expensive Hay, and bedding, as well as £80+ call out fee's before treatment starts from the vets (x2 in the last 4 weeks)

I don't need a cycle, but I want one. I don't really want the 4x4, but I need it

No you don't.

 

[Linford]

No you don't.

Feck me, you're hard work as well.

No you are right, in an ideal world with pots of money, and no need to balance things, I'd just pay way over the odds for someone else to run the vehicle to do what mine does, and take a hit on any other call out fee's they want to impose.

You don't need a cycle either, it just fits in with your lifestyle. Why not just change your lifestyle and then it is sorted ?

Caveat - We are now running the yard as a business with paying customers. Transport costs make buying of stuff unviable if delivery charges are imposed all the time.

 

[400bhp]

Feck me, you're hard work as well.

No you are right, in an ideal world with pots of money, and no need to balance things, I'd just pay way over the odds for someone else to run the vehicle to do what mine does, and take a hit on any other call out fee's they want to impose.

You don't need a cycle either, it just fits in with your lifestyle. Why not just change your lifestyle and then it is sorted ?

Caveat - We are now running the yard as a business with paying customers. Transport costs make buying of stuff unviable if delivery charges are imposed all the time.

or you would negate the need for the hay & bedding or whatever it's used for.

[ignoring the caveat].

You're absolutely right - i don't need a cycle. But I never said I did, did I.

 

[vorsprung]

I am mostly working from home at the moment

When I was cycle commuting to Taunton it was never the weather that had me taking the car. Sometimes I would have to pick up my daughter from somewhere straight after work. Sometimes I'd be resting before a big event at the weekend.

But the weather? Never. I got into work during all the snow, the car users were stuck

When I did take the car in I'd usually be thinking "This is awful, I want to be on my bike"

 

[Oldspice]

Naked pigyback rides in the snow is far better than any car ride (i have pics)

 

[theclaud]

Put in simple terms, the 4x4 whilst barely used, is by far the one which circumstances dictate must be kept roadworthy at all costs.

No 4x4 = very expensive Hay, and bedding, as well as £80+ call out fee's before treatment starts from the vets (x2 in the last 4 weeks)

I don't need a cycle, but I want one. I don't really want the 4x4, but I need it

This doesn't explain the previous post. Have you thought about eating the horses?