Only gone and got rid of the car!

[bicyclos]

I think it's natural to feel scary as you have taken a big change and leap in the right direction and changed a big habit. I sold my car 12yrs ago to stop me smoking and re-start cycling. I felt at first that I had made a big mistake in selling mi wheels for a push iron. You have got to want to cycle in the first place. I like cycling too much now more so than the first time around. Friend's at work as well as family call me a cycling Anorak, which I kind of agree. You will have good days and bad while out on the road but it is like everything else in life.....a balance. I do have access to my wifes car but I cant be bothered..........

 

[BlackPanther]

I very rarely drive 'our' car. Over the last year I've cycled every day bar about 5 or 6. I use the motorbike if I absolutely must finish early, if I'm going out straight from work, or if I'm proper ill), and I took the car once so I could go and pick up a dining table after work one day.

It absolutely amazes me that whilst I cycle 12 miles to work every morning, one guy at work lives less than a mile away and comes by car!

 

[bermudawhite]

I sold my car last month and got a lovely warm feeling when the road tax renewal for £210 came through the post. It was strange at first not having a car to fall back on (though wife has a car), but I do not miss it at all. Not sure yet what to do in winter as most of my journey is on unlit country lanes with 60mph limits - alright at this time of year but a bit dicey in winter.

 

[hennbell]

I drop to a single car but in Canada dropping to zero cars is not an option. Distances are to big, no trains, bus service is very questionable. we routinely have to make trips that are more than a thousand km round trip

 

[Headgardener]

I very rarely drive 'our' car. Over the last year I've cycled every day bar about 5 or 6. I use the motorbike if I absolutely must finish early, if I'm going out straight from work, or if I'm proper ill), and I took the car once so I could go and pick up a dining table after work one day.

It absolutely amazes me that whilst I cycle 12 miles to work every morning, one guy at work lives less than a mile away and comes by car!

Blimey that must be very uneconomic as the engine won't have had time to properly warm up.

 

[Nebulous]

Blimey that must be very uneconomic as the engine won't have had time to properly warm up.

I've a 2 mile commute and have been cycling it for over a year. The 5 years prior to that I did it by car, sometimes a company car and the last year in a personal car. It probably cost me less than cycling it does! When I had a company car it cost 10p a mile for fuel for private miles, so 40p a day. When I had to provide a car I got a Rover 45 at auction for £420, ran it on £10-15 a month for fuel, only needed a starter motor in the year I had it, which I replaced myself and then sold it for £650.

 

[Jdratcliffe]

I sold my car last month and got a lovely warm feeling when the road tax renewal for £210 came through the post. It was strange at first not having a car to fall back on (though wife has a car), but I do not miss it at all. Not sure yet what to do in winter as most of my journey is on unlit country lanes with 60mph limits - alright at this time of year but a bit dicey in winter.

get some decent lights you'll be ok i have 2 leyzene super drives http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=70575 and they work wonders for "seeing lights" have a exposure flash as a "be seen" light and have two cat eye 3 rapid rears along with a exposure flare to be seen from behind had several comments that my lights are TOO bright :-)