phone or bike

[Bibio]

if you had to choose between getting rid of your bike or your mobile phone, which would it be? business and emergence use excluded.

be truthful now.

[Specialone]

Phone, mine gets on my pi55ing nerves.

[Geodude]

Phone, mine gets on my pi55ing nerves.
+1 Have mine turned off until i need to use it.

[FG1]

Definately phone. We managed for years without mobiles so I can't see a problem. In fact, the harder it is for people to get you the more chance you have of getting out on the bike.

[Milky Bar Kid]

Oooooh that is a tricky one!

I think it'd have to be the bike.....but then...I dunno....hard one!

[Specialone]

It's a no brainer for me, bike will give you more enjoyment, can always use a public phone if you need one.

[Kenzie]

Definatetly the phone to go. Wife said the same about her bike.

[kaivalagi]

Phone would go, I only get pestered on it...I could still use land lines and get a cheap ar$e pay as you go phone to replace later if needed anyway...

[slark01]

freaky, been thinking about this just recently. Without question it's the phone, bike, phone. Bugger!:smt017
Phone, yes definately phone.

Ste.

[MisterTommyH]

I'd like to say it would be the phone....but in reality it'd probably have to be the bike.

[Specialone]

I suspect peeps over a certain age who had lives before mobiles could cope easily without their phones, obviously younger dudes dont know any different so would be harder I guess.

[ty_uk]

prefer to keep bike & phone and ditch the wife :):)

[kaivalagi]

I suspect peeps over a certain age who had lives before mobiles could cope easily without their phones, obviously younger dudes dont know any different so would be harder I guess.
TBH I find it absurd that anyone would choice to get rid of a bike over a phone in the first place, it's a phone....a bike gives you so much!


prefer to keep bike & phone and ditch the wife :):)
Good call!

[Kenzie]

Anyone who would rather keep the phone is not a true biker and should be ashamed!

[Bibio]

get a cheap ar$e pay as you go phone to replace later if needed anyway...

no. no. this is not allowed its phone or bike. forever....

[metalhead19]

Keep the bike, no doubt about it. I can live without a phone.

[El Saxo]

Keep the bike any day! In fact, considering I'm about to sell the SV, I wonder if ditching my phone would save enough money to keep the bike? :-k

[Lozzo]

I managed quite nicely without a mobile phone from 1978 when I got my first bike, until 1988 when I got my first mobile phone. As convenient as it is, I could quite happily go back to not having a mobile phone, but I'll never give up my bikes out of choice.

[kaivalagi]

no. no. this is not allowed its phone or bike. forever....
Thought I'd get away with stretching the rules a little but alas :smt016....the bike stays anyway and I switch the land line answer phone on :D

[The Guru]

I'd get rid of the phone and have more money for petrol.

[Sean_C]

Phone, hate the things.

And this is a 21 year old speaking ;)

[peterco]

Defo get rid of the phone.

[Bluepete]

Phone without a doubt.

Mine has been out of action for a week, I've not missed it one bit.

Yesterday, I had 350 miles out on the Tiger, I wouldn't have missed that for the world.

Pete ;)

[maviczap]

Easy peesy, phone. I lost mine for over a week, didn't miss it, and I don't use it much. My average bill is under a £5er per month

[Bluefish]

Phone, i think a picture is emerging here, lol

[-Ralph-]

Phone, it's bad enough when the one in the house rings and disturbs the peace!

[ChrisSV]

The phone would be gone. It just bugs me and I'd like the fact people can't perster me.

[Reeder]

Bike.

[minimorecambe]

My bike would have to go Im afraid

[Electro]

Phone and then get back to the 80`s, breaker breaker 1-9 a copy :)

[speedplay]

I'm not as old as Phil (like nearly everyone on here) and can remember when I didn't have a mobile so I'll vote for keeping the bike too.

[daveangel]

Phone! They're useful but not vital. .

[Milky Bar Kid]

My bike would have to go Im afraid

I have been pondering this all day and I think I have to agree!

[Specialone]

I'm not as old as Phil (like nearly everyone on here) and can remember when I didn't have a mobile so I'll vote for keeping the bike too.

Oi, Bolox !!

[aaron020873]

prefer to keep bike & phone and ditch the wife :):)
haha well thought out.

it would be my phone that would go.

[fenjer]

Phone, even though I can use my phone in any weather, and it has many different uses I'd not want to give up Sydney.

[davepreston]

dont own a mobile ( have wife secretarial sevice) does that mean i can get another bike to add to the collection :)

[BanannaMan]

Phone would be gone.
Mine is never on except the rare occasion when I am calling someone.

Of course i am old enpough to remember when the wheel was invented.

[davepreston]

Of course i am old enpough to remember when the wheel was invented.
and when america was run properly

by the british :)

[metalangel]

When the wheel was invented the USA was either run by First Nations people, or nobody at all cos even they hadn't gotten there yet.

TBH I'd be more happy giving my phone up if I get to have a PSP or something in its place, so I have something to keep me amused (when not on the bike, obv)

[andrewsmith]

Phone.

Have got one due to the jobs I do and its my contact

[Quedos]

Hmmm - phone is a great distraction at work and has been a lifesaver many at time but minimal spend on it so wouldn't make a difference i suppose well in monetary terms

so phone

[Viney]

Bike. I use my phone everyday, but not the bike any more

[G]

Depends how literally you mean it.

I technically need my phone to work, but then when I think about it I rarely actually use it.

I use live meeting through outlook most days.

So I would get rid of the phone.

If petro didn't exist I would still have a bike. It would sit in the lounge immaculate all polished up.

[Treacle]

Phone all day long. Silly question.

[hongman]

I use my phone much more than I use my bike, but as the OP specifically excludes business use...I'd get rid of the phone.

I rarely use it for personal calls that really can't wait, and email on an ipad or similar is as good as/better than texting.

[Reeder]

This is quite an interesting thread.

I understand everyone has a different view and sees things in different ways, but could you really give up your phone rather than your bike?

The only reason I say this is that for emergencies or other times that it's vital you speak to someone quickly a phone is priceless. Admitedly it perhaps can't bring the same amount of joy or the adrenaline rush of riding a bike but weighing it up it seems to me that it can only ever be the bike I'd give up. Maybe it's because of what some people have previously said though with regards to the fact that I've never not had a phone in my adult life so I guess I rely on it a lot more than some of the older folks?

[Owenski]

Supose it would have to be the bike, how else will Cheryl Cole get in touch should she decide Im the man for her, or indeed however will Fabio Capello get in touch about availabilty on the right wing for Englands next match. Saying that if either of those 2 phone calls come in the bike would be a handy way to get there fast (before they change their minds) ohhhhhhhh decisions decisions.

[hindle8907]

bike

[Bibio]

the rules were excluding business and emergency. emergency being someone who is a carer or in the emergency services etc. etc. so let me explain a we bit better. get rid of personal mobile/communication's device or bike?

i'm in the group who can remember life without mobile phones and other personal communication's devices.

so it would have to be the phone.

get rid of my bike, i'd rather have broken glass rammed up my arze.

[Reeder]

Oopsieee. That'll teach me to not read properly.
I'd still probably get rid of the bike as I get a lot of enjoyment from driving cars and I can't imagine life without my phone to be honest.

[hindle8907]

keep bike, bin phone, get a ipod touch make all people that used to ring me on my number contact me with Skype instead =) .

[Reeder]

Some people just dont listen do they Bib?

"get rid of personal mobile/communication's device or bike?"

Sorry Hindle :D

[keithd]

if i owned a bike... the bike would go

[TamSV]

Long bank holiday coming up...good weather forecast...gravel now cleared from the roads.

The first thing that springs to mind is not "I hope my phone's fully charged". :rolleyes:

[wyrdness]

I'd give up the phone, then go for a long ride on the bike, break down in the middle of absolutely nowhere and not be able to call the RAC as I'd have no phone :smt087

[Binky]

The real question is bike or car?

People depend on the two for sometimes very differing reasons, but which'd you give up?

[Reeder]

Bike again.

[ChrisSV]

Still bike. I can tolerate some cold and snow for 10 days a year. For the sheer fun I get for the other 355 days.
Plus it's a damm site cheaper than a car :P

[hongman]

Car. Unless my OH gets a license and we both get sidecars for the kids.

[Iansv II]

I'd get rid of phone, would miss biking far too much, could easily cope without a mobile

[yorkie_chris]

no. no. this is not allowed its phone or bike. forever....

You even have to ask the question?