The hardest decision of my life so far...

[Soul.Trader]

Things like this were what made me be as independant as possible!

What, your parents buying you a car? I wish my folks bought me a car at that age.

[sweetp]

While the public transportation system is really great here, it is also semi unreliable. There are a bunch of dedicated year round riders that would say that biking as commuting is by far better. Take me for example I work in the cbd and live in upper hutt. Taking my car to town is $10 plus parking so around $20 a day. Train is $5.60 each way on a 10 pass so $11.20 a day. Biking is $20 a week for petrol and there is no way that you could say that running cost / maintainence would be more than $36 a week which is the difference between my bike and the next cheapest option.

Why don't you do a deal - offer to do a defensive driving course if they let you keep the bike. It is far more cost effective and from a safety point of view you don't have to ride crazy - sure there is more traffic but it is traffic used to bikes (Welly has the most bikes per capita than any other major nz city). Having biked around a couple of other citys you certainly notice the difference in the awareness of car drivers compared to that here.

Anyway good luck to you, if you do manage to pursade them make sure you come on a sunday or wednesday ride.

[The Pastor]

do what i did and store your bike at a mates house

[breakaway]

If it comes right down to it, sell the bike and do your course. Suffer for a bit now so you can sit back and laugh (or ride) for the rest of your life.

[scumdog]

If it comes right down to it, sell the bike and do your course. Suffer for a bit now so you can sit back and laugh (or ride) for the rest of your life.

Wot 'e sed.

Short term pain -long term gain.

[Donor]

do what i did and store your bike at a mates house

Naaaaah...

Wot 'E said...

[HenryDorsetCase]

well as some of you know im planing to make the big jump to welly

however my parents have now decided that if i go im not taking my bike due to the fact that its "too dangerous" and they will get me a car in the place of my bike .

so if i go i give up the 1 thing i love the most

and if i dont, i miss out on doing a year long course so i can hopefully get a career doing custom paint work and will probly end up staying in welly longer than a year probly 3 or more.
the choice is so obvious but its a hard one to make.

My personal view is that if you live in Wellington and live in the CBD you dont need a car, and while there are times it would be useful (grocery shopping, moving flats) the hassle of storage, cost of parking blah blah far outweigh it. Plus it will have to live on the street, and presumably you will be flatting?, so you can count on it being stolen or broken into or trashed at least once in any given year.

Same goes for a motorbike too, they're just a little easier to store (but a lot easier to steal, too).

Check it out a bit before making any rash decisions...


By the way I lived in Wellington for a number of years as a student and then as a lowly paid government employee. I am sure it hasnt changed that much.

[Mental Trousers]

What you need is a Wellington based sugar daddy.

[jrandom]

I wouldn't let my daughter, aged eighteen, live in another city with nothing but a motorcycle as transport.

Girls, when it comes to motorcycling, tend to be faint of heart and ham of fist. Sure, they lack the foolish bravado of young men on the road, but they make up for that with an astonishing ability to freeze and panic before doing precisely the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Guarantee there'd be bins. Guarantee there'd be tears. Guarantee there'd be far too much association with dodgy young gentlemen on bikes who'd sweet-talk her and bang her like a screen door in a hurricane before leaving me to pay the vet bills.

Yes, I'm aware I'm going to be burned at the stake for this post. It's still all true, though.

[Unforgiven]

Id say go without the bike for a year, you have your whole life to ride.
If you are doing custom paint though, maybe you should thake the plastics and tank with you to practice on?

[Finn]

My parents have now decided that if i go im not taking my bike due to the fact that its "too dangerous" and they will get me a car in the place of my bike .

You should listen to your parents...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/...ectid=10489553

[Coyote]

and if i dont, i miss out on doing a year long cource so i can hopefully get a career doing custom paint work and will probly end up staying in welly longer than a year probly 3 or more.

Going to weltec for auto refinishing? I still haven't decided if I'm going there, got to make my mind up quick though.

Let us know how the custom paint aspirations go. I'm pretty keen to get into that myself

Guarantee there'd be bins. Guarantee there'd be tears. Guarantee there'd be far too much association with dodgy young gentlemen on bikes who'd sweet-talk her and bang her like a screen door in a hurricane before leaving me to pay the vet bills.

Don't look at me, I'm taken

[Mental Trousers]

Found a sugar daddy in Wellington yet??

[Blue Velvet]

Found a sugar daddy in Wellington yet??

Applications are open...? Heh

Got an update 2strokegirl?

[Fatjim]

Guarantee there'd be bins. Guarantee there'd be tears. Guarantee there'd be far too much association with dodgy young gentlemen on bikes who'd sweet-talk her and bang her like a screen door in a hurricane before leaving me to pay the vet bills.

And the downside is?