How have rising fuel prices changed your behaviour?

Very odd IMHO.

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There's your explanation, then.

 

I only use the Tranny for jobs and no casual mileage at all now. The
SOJC is for that, with its superior fuel consumption. I'm putting the
bicycle back on the road (at last), after buggering around with it for
ages and finally getting somewhere. For my regular routine trips to the
nearest shops(some 3.5 and five miles away) I'm seriously considering
building an electric bicycle.
House energy consumption has hit home with a bang this winter - last
electric bill was bad enough and the next one will be worse. I've
amassed enough materials to start building an integrated
solar/stream/wood/oil -fired heating system to keep me warm next winter
at minimal cost. Extra insulation on the building will be installed
either this year or next to keep more of the heat in.

So, all in all, there has and will be a change largely dictated by
running costs. Bugger the environment, it's when it hits my pocket that
it counts.
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."

 

They certainly used to be and some probably still will, but it's an old
habit from days of valve tellys.
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."

 

Oh, FFS! It will happily chuff along in a higher gear!

I could leave my Tiger in top, down to just under 20mph and it would
happily accelerate from there, cleanly, through to the far end of the
clock...

The Tiger has loads of torque - learn to use it.

 

Yup, that's when it gets to me, too.

 

Christ, you'll be able to heat the house with a candle.
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."

 

I don't think the 200 feet refers to depth.

 

That's what happens if you live on a flood plain.

"Alarm!"
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."

 

"We survived the floods because we were able to climb up on top of the loft
insulation."

 

**** the IAM, bunch of useless up themselves cunts.

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I've been doing this for a while now, but not primarily to save money.
On the long distance motorway and dual carriageway journeys I found
that driving at a normal cruising speed just seemed to hop you between
the rolling road-blocks caused when you got a backlog of trucks all
trying to overtake the slightly slower one[1].

Drive at 60ish and you don't slow down much when you do get to a
backlog, and don't feel as tired when you get where you're going. The
happy side effect is that the cage will give over 600 miles from a
tankful by doing this.

[1] literally, when our foreign friends[2] decide to use the outside
motorway lane as a truck lane as well
[2] I've only ever seen foreign registered trucks do this

 

Bah.

Didn't you get the memo? Work is the new sex!

 

This is all definitely true.

 

I don't leave lights on. Much.

 

It would be for dancing, but his shoes are too tight.

 

Justify it as a treat if you have to but do it. Sacrifice something
else if it helps, but do it. YKIMS.

 

And it you look at actual journey time, unless the journey is over
about 100 miles, driving at 60-70 takes about the same time as trying
to drive at 80-90 IME.

 

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