I need a commuting hack, pronto

Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking
issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an 11km/10
mins trundle. And that was mid-morning

 

Ah, you've figured out what the roads are like. Shite, aren't they?

BTW, the next time I'm up in BRX, I'll give you a shout. I expect to be
there every fortnight, on average.

 

A nice Bindit 650 will be your friend. Cheap as chips, sip fuel.
Boringly reliable.

 

Drove from Monaco to home (North Yorks.) last week (in one go, stopping only
for fuel/toilet/ferry) and I must say, as I was paying the tolls in France
it did strike me that the shitty roads weren't really worthy of the money I
was paying heh. And then there's the French road manners/driving...

<shudder and cold sweat>

Quick flashback there...

 

Well, the direct back road route looks OK but it's dug up[1] with a
diversion and then there was another diversion on the diversion so I
ended up **** knows where.

I'll need to go investigate if I can get a pushbike or traillie through
the works, there's no way I'm going through that shit twice a day.

Cool, I don't recall the Belgian moby number off hand but the email addy
in the headers is good.


[1]And when the Belgians dig up a road they do it *properly* and it's
shut for months.

 

Hmmm, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a "cheap as chips" bike
here. The floor price for anything reasonable seems to be about €2500,
and that's for pretty modest values of reasonable.

 

11km? Pushbike.

 

Y'know, that's probably not a bad idea. Especially where Higgins works.

 

You need a commuter hack FFS, not a fancy bike.
It will get left out all day in winter weather, you will drop it at
2mph in traffic, and anything respectable is likely to get nicked.

Time for a used GS500 or even a Jawa ratbike. Both are bulletproof
and cheap to run. Max speed is irrelevant for a town commute.
Scruffy but reliable is good. The less desireable it looks the less you
will worry about it and the more likely to find it where you parked it.

Keep the smart bike for having fun at weekends.

 

What on earth are you looking at? I doubt that my R1 is worth much
more than that.

 

do keep up: he's in Belgium where the used market is presumably stronger
than here

 

Oops. The Euro sign should've been a giveaway that he wasn't local but
I read it as a pound sign.

 

Don't worry. The way the pound is going, it'll soon be 1:1.

 

10 minutes trundle, you need to buy a nice Black CCM Supermoto for
that sort of trip.

Like mine.

Cheers,

Paul.;

 

That's the most likely solution, so long as I can actually get past the
roadworks. As a bonus, it would do more to help maintain the weight loss.

 

I'm talking about commuter hacks

No, I won't

, and anything respectable is likely to get nicked.

Not where I'll be working, it won't.

Well, yes, but I still need to buy one of those too.

 

http://cgi.befr.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200236257746
for example, though a bit less than €2500

 

That would appear to be the case and there also seems to be more of a
buy from the dealer and keep it for a long time culture. It might be
worth taking a trip across on the train.

 

Can you deliver?

 

what about ebay.de ? Seem to be quite a few Transalps for sale and you'd
get a bike with kph clocks and the correct headlight