"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Motorcycling is not inherently dangerous. It is, however, EXTREMELY unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence and stupidity!" - Anonymous
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I use the Vespa if I'm working in the city as lots of bus lanes and I have parking. Its 30 minutes compared to the hour using the
train.
From my office in East Tamaki I mostly use the car, soft as mentioned earlier and I don't like my suit getting crushed.
200cc Vespa is not the greatest on the motorway.... for that I take the bike.
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
But then I've got to take it all off again and dry it out ready for the next day...
What's good though is that when we renovated recently I created a fully insulated coat cupboard with power so I can run a dampchaser in there. Nice and toasty warm cupboard for hanging and drying all my gear 😀
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One of the guys on the course yesterday asked if there was a way to sue NZTA for the piles of gravel that make road works so bloody unsafe for bikes.
In addition, the council here grits the roads in winter in the interests of road safety.
I told him that until there are a lot more bikes using the road, we won't feature in planners thoughts much, if at all.
There's a critical mass number of riders needed before we really get much say.
Seriously, sit and watch traffic flow for a while. Bikes are a very, very small percentage of the overall traffic. Sure, on Sat and Sun the weekend warriors boost the numbers, but we are still a small minority.
[QUOTE=rastuscat;1131047370]One of the guys on the course yesterday asked if there was a way to sue NZTA for the piles of gravel that make road works so bloody unsafe for bikes.QUOTE]
Nothing about NZTA, however, there was an instance here in 2004 iirc where a motorcyclist won a criminal nuisance case against the Hawkes Bay Council and a roading contractor after he crashed due to loose chip on the road.
I'd need another bike, as the Ducati is a pig in stop start traffic.
When I had the DRZ400 I did commute quite regularly, as it was a lot more fun than sitting in the car.
The main reason I hear for people not commuting by bike is that the consumable cost of a big bike is too expensive, and the cost of owning another little bike just for commuting isn't justified.
I'll be back to commuting when I get around to buying a replacement for the DRZ......
Riding cheap crappy old bikes badly since 1987
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One of the things I miss with retirement is not riding to and from work,
except when it's pouring cats and dogs and blowing half a gale... those mornings deserve another half hour under the covers!
However, when I was commuting by bike I'd often take the car if it was raining in the morning, not because of trying to get wet gear dry [one of the office ladies always made sure if I got wet my gear was dry by the end of the day] but because I found drivers were even less observant when it rains and the generally poor road skills were thrown out the window...
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