Is your bike your main form of transport?

**oldrider** · 9th May 2007, 00:21

No voting option for me, I have a cage a light truck and the bike, I ride the bike as first preference rain hail or shine but sometimes the forces of darkness win and I have to use the others, damn it!

John.

**yod** · 9th May 2007, 00:26

can you add an option:
"i use my work car for work, and my wife's car if i need it, but other than that i use my bike" ?

thanks in advance,
picky bastard

**carver** · 9th May 2007, 00:39

i only ride my harley once every ten years...so i haven't ridden it yet.

**Gremlin** · 9th May 2007, 01:11

Haven't owned a car yet... and still have my class 1 learners... really need to get the restricted actually..

so obviously, my tick went for bike all the time. Dry, its awesome, wet, you pass all the gridlock, so it can be awesome whichever way you look at it

**Big Dog** · 9th May 2007, 01:38

Originally Posted by ridetwins

i hate getting my bike wet, not cos i dont like rain. If i had a crap old bike then id use a bike 95% of the time.

Currently trying to resolve this problem for myself as well.
It pulls at the heart strings firing up a $17,000 mile muncher to travel 9 km at 40km an hour each way, let alone using 168ps to go to the dairy for cigarettes.
No, as soon as I can manage it there will be a little shitter sharing my parking space with my pride and joy. Nothing flash but that I can service myself and will get me to and from work on $150 per end instead of eating $350 per end tyres in the last five months (15,000 by the time they are no longer legal).

I estimate (short of major mechanical failure) a $500 bike to commute on (while ugly) will save me around $1900 a year in maintenance and my bike will last longer as a result.

**cynna** · 9th May 2007, 04:04

i ride my scooter to work everyday. easy to park and i dont get stopped by the cops everytime they see me coming home at 3am

and it doesnt wake up the neighbour hood ... but i do take the harley everynow and then

hardly ever take the car - unless its snowing

**Kflasher** · 9th May 2007, 07:16

I ride a much as I can if weather to shite I'll take the bus, I have a car but reg. on hold as I have never used it since I moved to Auck.

**KoroJ** · 9th May 2007, 08:32

I've got quite a nice Maxima but the bike to car K's ratio is about 15 to 1.

I should get rid of it but probably wouldn't get much for it and it does come in handy sometimes.....Nice to have a choice i guess. That's what freedom is all about.

**buellbabe** · 9th May 2007, 08:50

Originally Posted by oldrider

No voting option for me, I have a cage a light truck and the bike, I ride the bike as first preference rain hail or shine but sometimes the forces of darkness win and I have to use the others, damn it!

John.

2nd that... My bike is the main transport but the dogs are WAAAAAAY easier to transport in the car...

**mark247** · 9th May 2007, 08:52

Originally Posted by buellbabe

2nd that... My bike is the main transport but the dogs are WAAAAAAY easier to transport in the car...

Whats the top of the fuel tank for man?

**buellbabe** · 9th May 2007, 09:04

So true and if I had a Staffy then maybe...buuuut the hounds are twice that size!

Have a friend with a Norton and his Staffy used to perch on the tank, she wore a 'biggles' flying hat/mask!

Know another guy with a Buell who transports his foxie in a backpack.

**Dooly** · 9th May 2007, 09:27

I have a work vehicle which I and others use during the day so have to take that to work. The missus has a company car, plus we have a near new Falcon sitting in the shed doing nothing, so the bikes have become purely a recreational thing as I've got older.
During the weekend if I have to go anywhere or into town I usually always take a bike unless needing to pick up hardware/DIY etc etc.
Used to use the bike to work most days when heaps younger and more bullet proof.

**90s** · 9th May 2007, 10:58

Originally Posted by yod

can you add an option:
"i use my work car for work, and my wife's car if i need it, but other than that i use my bike" ?

or can you add my option:
"i use my bike to work, and my wife's car if i need it, but other than that i use my bike" ?
(it would take 1 hr to get to work in the car and $2500 per year parking. 30 mins on the bike + free parking)

I voted '1' just in case no.

**yod** · 9th May 2007, 11:11

Originally Posted by 90s

(it would take 1 hr to get to work in the car and $2500 per year parking. 30 mins on the bike + free parking)

man it sucks to live in auckland

takes me 7 minutes to get to work in a car, maybe 10 on a bad day
and thats from the edge of town to the centre

:

of course, it IS palmy so if i didnt have a bike, i'd be bored senseless....

**yod** · 9th May 2007, 11:13

Originally Posted by Dooly

I have a work vehicle which I and others use during the day so have to take that to work. The missus has a company car, plus we have a near new Falcon sitting in the shed doing nothing, so the bikes have become purely a recreational thing as I've got older.
During the weekend if I have to go anywhere or into town I usually always take a bike unless needing to pick up hardware/DIY etc etc.
Used to use the bike to work most days when heaps younger and more bullet proof.

yeah same....i HAVE to take the work car, otherwise i'd take the bike a lot of the time....