More economical driving and riding

Same here.

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Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

That looked great until I saw the price. You can get a brand new
chinese 2 stroke scooter for half that.

Fraser

 

Your brand new Chinese 2 stroke scooter will be fucked and worthless
within 6 months, they all are.



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Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

My V-Moto Milan was more than ok after a year.

Fraser

 

Train is ok for me cost-wise. Petrol works out at 12 quid a day, a week
rail card is 28. But it takes 3.5 hours out of my day versus 2 driving.

Working from home is truly the answer.

 

The last time I looked at mine, it said just over 34mpg.

*shrug*

On a *cough*car forum*cough* there are several people who have bought
brand new diesels, decided that the mpg is not as high as they
expected, so chopped the car in for another new car (either a petrol or
differnt make/model altogether).

They don't seem to care that it's going to take years to claw back the
several thousands they just taken a hit on, purely by virtue of having
a more economical car. Even if it's actaully possible.

It's only money. And how much would two flights cost?

 

Idiots. I've always found a new car takes about 12k of use before it
really starts to return really decent MPG.

 

Abso-fucking-lutely!

Some are complaining that the car is advertised as doing 50+mpg and
they're only getting 40-ish when they drive purely in towns/cities in a
Euro-V DPF diesel.

Quite.

Not that I'd ever buy a diesel. Well, not until I get really old.

 

It's got magic smoke, therefore it's a gadget, therefore it doesn't
have to make sense or need justification.

 

Hahaha.

When I got mine it returned 40somethings, it's now easy to get early
50's on a long run. I suspect by the time it's got 30k+ on it 55
should be do-able.

I'd buy a petrol if it were my own car, but whilst it's a taxable
benefit then diesel all the way.

 

After 56000 miles my diesel Octavia was returning about 10 mpg than my
petrol Mazda is now after 24000. Over 50000 miles saving about 300
gallons of fuel. So even given the trend in fuel prices towards the 7
quid gallon that's only about £2000. OK, so keep it until it's done
100,000 and you are talking £4000. Then, however, factor in the cost of
cam belt changes, and probably a dual mass flywheel.

I clawed back that £4000 by buying a low mileage six months old
demonstrator instead of new. I took a hit on the trade-in, but that
would be the case anyway.

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I don't think the twattery was exclusive to either parents or cyclist.
There's plenty of it to go round.

 

Gives new meaning to the phrase government subsidy junkie.

I'm still impressed with the size of the man's cojones, entering the
automotive industry is risky business at the best of times but to do it
in Northern Ireland in 1975 is really something special. It didn't go
into receivership until 1982 so not a bad run really.

 

You're welcome, it's always nice to know that my tax isn't all being
gambled away in the big casino bank payout.

I have a rule for getting the bicycle out, three days of successive warm
and sunny weather before I even consider it.

snip

 

Government subsidy junkie ;-)

 

**** knows.

Flying down would make it a bit tricky to drive through the Alps and
spend a week or so by the lakes as well.

 

Yes, I understand that the driving *is* the holiday, not a means of
getting to it, so the fuel cost is just part of the overall cost of the
holiday.

In other words: "whatever it costs"

 

His very bestest friend (as was) is one of my best friends and the story
isn't what the media suggest. But he wasn't whiter than white. The business
was on the edge of commercial success and employing a lot of people when the
NI civil servants pulled the plug and wasted everything they had already
spent.

As for the coke deal, the man had serious mob connections. My friend
recounts meetings in Vegas which resembled a Rat Pack movie. But the deal
was entrapment and the bloke was in desperate straights. Many of us might
have taken the bait in the same circumstances. Some of his investors were
not people you "let down".

 

All of a sudden, free travel into work has become very appealing. At
least with the new depot, the time difference is negligible.

 

That's exactly the approach I take.

V has a slightly different opinion, but what she don't know won't hurt
her. Until her credit card bill arrives, anyway.