More economical driving and riding

?>"TOG@Toil" wrote in message

fx: looks at company fuel card...
fuel prices have gone up?

 

Go **** Yourself.

 

I have you pinned as the £5000 bicycle frame man, see

 

Yes, but the drive system and battery is worth circa £700 and it appears to
be a decent bike?

 

Not always, no.

Especially if one has donned ones best flat cap and driving gloves,
and is going for a waft round the coast of a sunny Sunday.

 

I've been waiting for at least two years for the cost of the quality
lightweight efficient motors to become attractive. The price has
remained virtually flat, the Heinzmann electric conversion kits are
still starting at £800.

Don't think there has been that much innovation but I quite like the
look of the Nano motor electric bike conversions. Not enough to fork out
the £640 price for a wheel though.

 

<Socialist Worker Mode>

Yes, that's exactly what the toffs at the top want the proles to do.

</SM>

 

<two clicks up and one right for windage>

 

I think the price will remain static and the innovation and quality will
rise.

I've just taken a closer look at an E-Motion. It's the same frame and bars
as my Edinburgh Cycles Revolution Courier. Which is a really feckin nice
bike and as light as I could find short of carbon fibre.

 

Mine was 1750 new. In fact, I'm off mountain biking in half an hour.

If that sounds like a lot of money to spend on a bike, consider that I
probably spend as much over the lifetime of the bike on pies & pints
after riding it.

In fact, the pie & pint afterwards costs me about £10 and delivers only
about 1000 kCal: which corresponds nicely to the 500W or so I burn
during the 2 hours I go cycling. I doubt I produce that much at the
crank.

 

Most expensive frame I've ever bought was £2600.

I'd love one of these, that an ex-ukrmer has just posted elsewhere...

http://www.brianrourke.co.uk/rourke-reynolds-953-cycle-frameset-p-245.html

 

You could spend that much money on a normal bike and go just as quick,
with roughly the same effort. Those things are heavy and don't go up
hills very well so you have to pedal to aid.

 

We expect you to use it every day during the summer.

Do you really drive up to near Birmingham airport every day? it sounds a
bit hideous.

 

What's the miles/subframe rate?

 

Bargain!
One wouldn't paint it shirly. It should be the De Lorean of bicycles

 

How do they go about taxing you on that?

 

Ah you seem to be something of a Seer

 

Oh hardly. Power rocks!

 

TOG@Toil spoke:

I've actually been working mostly from home for the past couple of
months. The trip to my office is around 30 miles round trip.

When I went every day I was topping up the tank every week £40+ quid or
so. Now I fill up once for > £60 and it usually lasts about a month.


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