So, with it now being cheaper to fill your car with Veuve-Cliquot than petrol/diesel I'm riding my bike more than ever.
I can cycle to my new job so am looking forward to the big cash savings now that we've hit 1.30 per litre or whatever it is at the moment.
Are you using your car less? Do you even have a car or have you decided that the whole thing is a bottomless money pit and have opted out entirely?
Oh, also if you do cycle, what do you ride?
I've just bought a Kona Five-0, it's lovely.
I've basically stopped using my car
I've drove about 10 miles in a week :o and I'm buying un velo after I come back from oxegen.
about a month ago
I bought a bike from a drug dealer for a tenner then sold it for £20 the next day. I'm currently bikeless but am saving for a decent road bike.
He must have been a shit drug dealer if all he sold you was a bike
"Dya wanna bit of coke? Some E?, spice up your night out saaahn?"
"No thanks"
"Err, oh well, lookie here, I got this bike..."
imagine how much he'd sell drugs though
if he's giving a bike away for a tenner, which was sold for £20 the next day.
*he'd sell drugs for
went like this
"Ben I've got a puncher, just had to walk all the way from Newington Green. Wanna buy a bike for £40?"
"erm, no thanks"
"£15?"
"no"
"10 quid then"
"ok"
He knew yr name?
Kudos
I don't know why I posted that
also where I live
unfortunately
He'll be wanted his bike back next week
HE'LL SMASH YOUR FOCKING DOOR DOWN
So he can steal the bike back whenever he likes!
Basically, you bought a timeshare.
Oh, you sold it on........
and so the (bi)cycle continues.
sometimes i go into Evans Cycling
and drool over the Bianchi bikes : (
cars are for fucking pussies
use the feet you were given
and also the buses and trains provided by the government
Trains?
More expensive than taking the car these days!
but they're fun and worth it
Which part..........
the standing next tot he rancid toilets because all of the seats are taken, the mono-syllabic idiots who insist on inflicting their utterly pointless phone conversations on you 'Has Declan had his tea? You gave him potato smileys right? Good, cos' he won't eat nuffin' else' or the piss drunk neanderthals who threaten to knife you if you so much as glance at the size 16 breeding machine that they happen to be with?
i've never experienced these on glaswegian trains
but i have experienced them on the 62 bus
I see your 62
and raise you a 41
29 Bus of Crime
Trafalgar Sq to Wood Green (via Camden)
Fun Times
Seeing as everything
in LA is light years away, its impossible not to use my car.
Fuck the environment! Bruuumm Bruumm!
Do they still refer to buses as 'Loser cruisers' in LA?!
*Ciderland
^ It's like being stalked, but without feeling in any sense threatened
I have no problem with bikes
but I do have a serious issue with those who insist on riding on HER MAJESTY'S BLOODY PAVEMENT. I saw a cyclist clip an old boy this afternoon and send him sprawling. Did they stop, feck no. Arseholes. FOOTpaths people, the only wheels should be prams or wheelchairs.
*rant off.
I ride to work daily.
I have 2 bikes which I use depending on my mood.
I have a Bianchi c2c Carbon road bike with the Ultegra groupset. It goes like shit off a shovel.
I also have a hardtailed Specialized Frame with a Rock Shox Reba World Cup front fork, Juicy Carbon front and rear breaks and SRAM gears.
Suffice to say I don't use both exclusively for commuting.
I use my car loads for work
and love it.
But out of work I am all about the feet. Never seem to use my bike as transport as dont want it getting nicked, which is a bit of a shame.
*drools over bianchi*
(drools over mountain bike too)
yay bikes!
i have a ridgeback tempest for commuting, but i'm looking to upgrade to a Planet X Carbon Dura-Ace as soon as work get their finger out and authorise cycle2work...
i also have a heavily upgraded dawes shuniah for throwing myself down mountains. mwahahaha!
cycling's great, except with a hangover.
Mine sorted out my hangover today
drank too much wine last night, i was cycling slowly today, but think the pain is also as i went for a run last night and i'm not used to running
Was the run before or after the wine drinking?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Biked to and from work
went for a run
biked to girls
drank wine
biked home
biked to work
Dying.
Claude Butler Roubaix
Its a beaut, bright red. Used to have a cheap mountain bike, then moved up to cheap road bikes and finally took the plunge and forked out.
In Flight Gear Changing is incredible, its so light and i go so fast on it, zoom zoom.
Just need to save up and buy some clips and some trainers rather than slotting into the basic plastic things i've got at the moment. I love my bike (apart from when i get punctures)
Not just a commute bike (although mines about 21miles a day)
I've got an old drop handle racer, which I got for free
I should use it much more, but the seat is the most painful torture device ever created. Especially on East London roads without any form of suspension.
I'd cycle to work, but I'd die.
I don't even have a provisional licence
But as I've lived in London my whole life I've never needed to drive.
A car is the worst investment ever. From the moment you buy it all it does is cost money and depreciate in value
not everyone buys a car
for investment value.
I have a car. I can't drive.
My Bike Cost Less Than
What it would cost me to get at Zone 1/2 Tube Pass, Months Season Ticket on the Train and a Months Bus Pass to get to work (this is still well in excess of £450, Mentalism!).
Cash-Back and you get fit too!
I had a bike when I was at uni
I tried to cycle in from Belsize Park, but it was terrifying! Then two days later someone stole my wheels. I stick to public transport or walking, I do like a good walk
do you not get all sweaty cycling to work?
Showers in the Office
Brilliant
i want a bike
i have about £150 set aside. Where can i get a good one that wont fall apart, for my commute, oh and that doesnt involve me buying 15 from a drug dealer?
Short Answer - No
It will either fall apart or....no, it will fall apart
thought as much
:(
my bike is a beaten up and dirty
mountain bike. I forget what make it is, but it's silver with pink bits. The brakes are shoddy and I sometimes get abuse from chavs for having a pink bike, but apart from that it's good.
I like cycling, it is good. it's not just petrol which is too expensive, it's buses too, it would cost me £3 a day to get to work if i didn't cycle, and it would take longer