Bike as only transport.

[Razor]

How do you organise your life if you only have a bike. That is no car or one on hand for shopping and all the other mundane parts of life that I have taken for granted since 1988. I've always had a car and a bike. Now just my bike.

How do you carry the shopping without resorting to a topbox(shudder)?

[Luckypants]

Taxi! - I'll get me coat.

[andy]

A nice big sports bag, pack it well at the shops and strap it on the back seat - if you also carry a big rucksack for the light and bulky items you can get a weeks worth no problem. Add a tank bag and you are laughing.

I can actually carry more on my pushbike but that is harder work.....

I shudder when people say they think it is hard to survive without a car - it is only hard because you are not used to it. Plan well and you will wonder why you ever needed a car!

[SoulKiss]

I didnt have any form of private transport for 8 years plus.

Internet shopping is great for the groceries.

If you NEED a car/van then just hire.

Mind you that was Central London.

[fizzwheel]

How do you carry the shopping without resorting to a topbox(shudder)?

Tailpack, Tankbag or Rucksack, buy enough to keep you going for a week and do a weekly shop instead of a monthly.

I didnt have a car for 8months, I managed OK without one, You just have to be inentive. I'm lucky theres a Morrisons 5 minutes walk from my house though.

[SoulKiss]

And to address the shopping bit.

I tend to shop on a daily basis for evening meal bits - usually only half a dozen bits.

All fits in tank bag usually.

As said elsewhere, planning and a bungee net are your friends

[Razor]

Fair enough, but I've got interviews to go to. How do people react when you turn up in leathers with a CV tucked in a messenger bag?

[timwilky]

Shopping?.

Womans work that. I just hand over the plastic and somehow the account is empty, so is the pantry, at least the wifes wardrobe is full.

Hmmmm is there a connection. I wonder.

[Luckypants]

Fair enough, but I've got interviews to go to. How do people react when you turn up in leathers with a CV tucked in a messenger bag?I had to do that once, called up in advance to see if it would be problem, they said no as it was a 'dress down' company anyway.

I got the job.

your mileage may vary. :wink:

[SoulKiss]

Fair enough, but I've got interviews to go to. How do people react when you turn up in leathers with a CV tucked in a messenger bag?

Wear leathers to interview with "Interview Clothes" in bag, arrive 30 mins early, ask the receptionist if there is a bathroom you can use to change,

Get changed.

leave lid/bag with receptionist.

Do interview

Rince and repeat in reverse on way out.

Or phone ahead and ask :)

David

[Ed]

...or get the bus :D

[Razor]

...or get the bus :D

No can do, I don't even like turning right when I get on a plane...

[Jdubya]

Shopping? Try www.tesco.com ..... They deliver :wink:

[Razor]

Shopping? Try www.tesco.com ..... They deliver :wink:

You think I'm made of money? If I can't get it at Aldi or Netto then I won't be getting it!

[Ping]

Shopping? Try www.tesco.com ..... They deliver :wink:

You think I'm made of money? If I can't get it at Aldi or Netto then I won't be getting it!
http://www.asda.co.uk/corp/home.html

;)

[Ceri JC]

I don't have a car at the moment and haven't for almost a year. I have hire cars for work occassionally, but never for personal use. Admiteddly the gf does the food shopping, but I rarely have need for a car. On the occassions where I need to move something that can't inventivenly be lashed to a bike, £50 a day gets you a long wheelbase transit van near me. That's an awful lot of van hires you can get for the cost of a car when you factor in running costs such as insurance.

The dream no car situation would be to have an A-team style van and a load of bikes though. :)

[Viney]

I take it that you have a car licence. Isnt there anyone that you could borrow a car off? If not, the two options have been posted above. Phone ahead, or take a change of clothes.

Without a car is a pain in the ass

[Nashwan]

I don't really have any need for a car. I can walk or take the bus into work, and the supermarket's only a ten minute walk away, the pub's even closer! Everywhere else I can get to on my trusty SV :)

If I lived in a more awkward location it'd be difficult to get by without a car, as it is, I'm quite lucky.

[northwind]

I built a luggage rack out of a spare seat and some bits of wood. It's truly classy, but combined with the Renntec rack I can carry anything :) For interviews though, I'd get the bus, or a taxi.

[DanAbnormal]

Don't have a car or a car licence. I have a large rucksack and an understanding wife with a car. :D I would probably get tesco's to deliver shopping if I had no access to a means to get a bulk shop done.

[grecian9]

Having no car and living with someone else who does doesn't count. As does living in London where having no car is a very sensible idea. I would find it quite odd to have no car in Leeds as the public transport is a joke and it's very hilly so walking isn't much fun. If I had a Pan European then I could just about imagine it but not an SV. I could never give my mum a lift anywhere, never take more than one person out in the car, couldn't take my mtb out to the hills, no trips to Ikea, B&Q etc...the compromise is too great.

[Apophes]

strugle for a few years till tesco build a super store 100 foot from your house

interviews i'm with the ring and ask or arive early plan

nights out and stuff taxi

[Stu]

How do you carry the shopping without resorting to a topbox(shudder)?

Tailpack, Tankbag or Tesco.com. :takeabow:


Edit. That'll teach me to read thread before posting *where's the shuffles off smilie?*

[Razor]

There's a Tesco a mile away. 2 miles is to short a journey for the SV. It'd barely be warmed up by then. Netto is closer but the other customers sometimes smell and this affects my sensitive olfactory system...

I need some mudguards and lights for my MTB and maybe a rack on the back.

[DarrenSV650S]

The two problems I have with getting rid of the car are
1. Winter riding - Sometimes isnt possible in snow/ice. The weather and salt are bad for the bike
2 Security - Im an electrician so am always on different sites. Parking is sometimes on very muddy/bumpy surfaces. And there is nowhere secure to put my helmet/leathers as tools etc are always getting nicked.

[Ed]

Netto is closer but the other customers sometimes smell and this affects my sensitive olfactory system...



I didn't know you're a snob :lol:

[Razor]

Netto is closer but the other customers sometimes smell and this affects my sensitive olfactory system...



I didn't know you're a snob :lol:

I prefer selective...