How many months do you use your bike for?

[Kflasher]

Pffft - I sold my car and now only use a bike

We have gone from a 3 car household to 1 car 2 bikes.

I see my dedication is not up to your standards…

[racerhead]

Thats great to see most use their bikes all year round. Here in Ireland the weather can be pretty wet and we get alot of "fair weather bikers" so thats why I stuck in the only dry weather option. Im planning on living around the bay of plenty area so should be pretty good weather wise and hopefully just going to have my bike as my only transport.

[slofox]

All the friggin' time of course.......only pussies park the bike up.........even when I lived in Christchurch I rode all year round.....(it was bike or walk back in them thar dark days of yore.....)

[Tank]

I see my dedication is not up to your standards…

of course it is - its all about situation and appropriateness. I can because of my circumstances - yours may well be different.

I don't actually subscribe to "dedication" to biking. I ride for enjoyment - nothing else.

As long as you enjoy riding then its all good!

[Nasty]

I ride all year round .. only stopping for days where the wind likes to pick up my bike and move it without assistance from me.

[sunhuntin]

Is this a trick question? Why would one own a bike and not ride it? (Apart from those times that it's all alone in a big dark cold crate on its way to or from Los Angeles)

an ex in canada cant ride for 6 or 7 months of the year due to the snow. he made that mistake once on a 65 harley, and basically had to strip and rechrome EVERYTHING due to the salt on the roads. hes got 3 bikes [one not roadworthy]. we did go out once towards the end of the winter, and it was lovely, but i wouldnt want to do it in full winter. too slippery.

myself, i ride year round. that would likely change if we got snow, but it would be for my safety, not lack of nuts. generally it gets used daily, but sometimes ill opt to be a passenger in the missus' car if i cant be bothered suiting up and playing taxi [very stressful with a pillion. i prefer solo] i love the wind... great fun! had several gusts that nearly sent me off the road, but then im a stubborn bitch and aint about to let some stupid gust ruin my ride. bit different when your trying to turn left and you get blown right instead. when i first started riding, id go to the foxton strait just to have some fun with the wind and get some practise.

[slimjim]

every day in the sunny hawkes bay...when it rain's..huh only last's an hour an sun's back out....an when its windy...bloody too many helicopters flying about removing the frost...lol

[vgcspares]

well we have 9 bikes, one car and a house ... House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling ... There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road ... cardboard box ? You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt ....

[Sparrowhawk]

Pffft - I sold my car and now only use a bike

We have gone from a 3 car household to 1 car 2 bikes.

LOL, likewise. We have 3 adults in our house, at the start of this year had 3 cages, now 1 cage & 2 bikes. Although my better half just got her 6L, so it might soon be 1 cage & 3 bikes (we have to have a cage to take these two little gremlins around. Nasty little beasts. For some reason the call us mum & dad)

[vifferman]

Pffft - I sold my car and now only use a bike

We have gone from a 3 car household to 1 car 2 bikes.

I don't have a car, although I have the use of one or three (the wife has one, and the two oldest troglodytes have one each).

[imne1]

i use mine all year round, it's my only form of transport

Me too !! where's the options for 100% of the time?

[MarkH]

Who is the soft cock who rides only when it is dry???

Before I got the scooter I thought that I would use it whenever the weather was good and probably take the car when wet. Only I had forgotten that I hate trying to get around Auckland in a car when it's wet even more than when it's dry. I have spent thousands on gear to allow me to ride all year long regardless of weather.

[Swoop]

Only I had forgotten that I hate trying to get around Auckland in a car when it's wet even more than when it's dry.

Damn right!
Commuting in winter is even more enjoyable as there is even more cage traffic and less bikes in the 2a lane!

[slopster]

Not afraid of riding in really bad weather but don't see the requirement. Bikings fun and expensive so if I'm not having fun I might as well save myself some money and take the car. Commutings a different story I guess but I don't have to do that cos I live at work.

[Blackshear]

Of the 6 months I have owned my bike, and almost 4 months I have had my licence, I seem to have racked up almost 7000km's.

I thought that wasn't too shabby, actually.