Hardcore Biker
Public transport from my place.. is a joke.Originally Posted by James Deuce
No bus's leave my area untill 6.45, that takes me to the train station. I get to the train station at 7.10. catch the 7.25 train. get to town at 7.50 and am at work by 8. and that is if everything is running on time...
Just as bad on the way home.
Hardcore Biker
We earn good money so we get to choose when we leave
My biggest reason for commuting myself is because I get the choice when I go, it's all about freedom.
Also it takes me less time to put on my gear than to walk to the nearest bus shelter.
Forum whore
Sheesh! I wasn't trying to be funny. It is just that some of the things you said to support your argument for public transport don't add up.
Hardcore Biker
His "4 tyre sets every 3 days" statement was about his old bike, a 750 I believe. He prob used to do mad burnouts and other fun stuff and then got caught. Hence having to use the public transportation system.
Forum whore
I'm sorry which bits don't add up? The only bit is that you assumed that my NZ250 (which is in bits - sub-molior is latin for in bits) is one of the bikes I'd commuted on. It isn't.
It was supposed to be 1 set of tyres every 4 months. I have a cognitive deficeit from my accident in early 2010 that I have to wrork really hard on. What I see on the screen when I type is what I expect to be there. It often isn't what ends up on the screen. I keep forgeting that kicking the retarded kid is an acceptable form of entertainment.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Hardcore Biker
I believe that is what you wrote. My quote was an exaggeration.
I don't discriminate, so I can make fun of you the same way I make fun of anyone.
Bogeyman
There's a name for that? I never needed a smack around the head to be that way, it's all natural-born talent.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
on the up
Of course, you're all mad though for working in town.
Me I work out of town. I live in Wallaceville and work in Tawa.
My commute is great - through the back of Upper Hutt (Alexander Road, Silverstream, quick lanesplit to Haywards, choice of Paremata Road or Grays Rd, and then another lane split to Tawa then a gentle cruise through Tawa to the old Tawa Junction, where there's free parking at work for at least 500 cars or bikes. I park my bike just outside the front office at work, where it sits out of the rain with the reception team keeping an eye on it.
Counting paying off the bike (I put it on the mortgage), depreciation, insurance, servicing (Valve setting, chain and sprockets, brake pads once a year, oil and filter every 3 months - I do all my own servicing except changing the tyres), tyres (2 sets a year - I get 10,000 kms out of a set of Continental RoadAttacks), petrol and insurance works out about 38 cents a km.
I'm happier than a pig in mud.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Forum whore
Looks like Brendon Motors are using it to park customers cars while they are waiting their turn to be worked on. They used to use the lot behind Zibibo's which was also a paid parking lot as well so it maybe they got turfed out of there
Deus ex ukulele
It's certainly being used to contain scruffy motor vehicles. I thought it may be a staff carpark of some sort. There's a space just along from the old area marked as being acceptable for "Authorised Motorcycles Only".
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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What is so hard to believe about a set of tyres every 4 months?
I ride a 250 and that was the timeframe that my tyres were getting replaced.
or even a set every 3 months. I ripped through a set in 4 weeks in summer (although
that was about the same kms as 4 months commuting!!!)
Wainuiomata hill really destroys tyres as it has an added compound for grip that shreds rubber real quick.
and as for public transport vs bike... 1 1/2+ hours or 20 minutes on the bike.
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Forum whore
Oi! I get my wof's at Brendons.... scruffy indeed..... humpf
(well used is more accurate)
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