your car doesn't run on bran flakes though.
Repair, MOT, Fuel, VED and sooner or later a replacement car.
It cost us £30 in fuel to get to her parents place! Though i'm happy to pay the £30 needed to get us back.
Cycling is my hobby, transport, exercise, entertainment all in one.
6 bikes? you lucky b******!
cycling is my transport - I do not have access to the car during the week. My OH cycles to work once or twice a week and the car stays where he parks it and often does not move for 3 or 4 days at a time.
'tis 3 bikes each... tourer (from cycling around the world or failing to), road bike cheap enough to leave safely at work/college and suddenly found we were missing our mountain bikes too much, so picked up 2 2nd hand mtbs for £300 total.
Car (cost £2500 to buy) only gets fuel once a month £75-80 a tank does 600 miles (we hardly use it) unless we are going on holiday. MOT - not yet done, repairs well they were £400 so far in 6 months.
Our tourers were +£2,500 each... though they have not needed much in the way of maintenance to be honest. 1 new chain each, 1 new set of tyres each, odd inner tube here and there, his 6 spokes, mine 1 spoke, 1 new sprocket & front chain ring each, plus about 5 oil changes each - oh and mine needed a new gear shifter plus cables & pulley after they froze because of water ingress which had also caused quite a bit of aluminium rust to form £150?.
Road bikes: doubt repairs have come to more than £100 so far including new tyres. Mtb's needed winter tyres as well, so £50 (which will be going back on my mtb very soon if I am to be able to get to college tonight - it is snowing heavily outside and sticking out here in the sticks!)
In fact the most expensive part of the car is the insurance because we were gone for longer than 12 months so 'lost' our no claims discount of +9 years - the only company that would give us even a sensible quote was the company we used to be with once we explained we had simply not had a car for 18 months but it still costs us far more than it used to - guess the car might be winning, but it is a close run thing at the moment when my £40 per week of physio is taken into account (dog bite issues)...
about me having the 'outdoor' bikes in the conservatory in this weather. Well ... it's either there or under the climbing frame *
