Bang goes my journey home

[Gazza77]

Just heard this. My bus stop is directly next to the pub.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7360858.stm

So why do you take the bus when you've got a bike?
I ride a bike to avoid having to take buses and tubes.
Public transport is best avoided, except as a way to get home from non-exploding pubs.

[Gazza77]

Originally Posted by wyrdness

So why do you take the bus when you've got a bike?
I ride a bike to avoid having to take buses and tubes.
Public transport is best avoided, except as a way to get home from non-exploding pubs.

Takes as long to get to work on the bike as the public transport when you take into consideration parking and getting changed etc.

I don't always go home, I often go to my gfs straight from work, and the journey to hers would be even worse. She also doesn't have secure parking facilities.

It costs me £80 a month to travel anywhere in West Yorkshire whenever I want on public transport. Would cost a hell of a lot more on the bike.

Even chained up and alarmed, this is still a ropey area to leave the bike unattended.

I can go straight to the pub after work whenever I feel like.

Need I go on?

Originally Posted by Title

Bang goes my journey home

Baddum tish!

Originally Posted by Gazza77

I can go straight to the pub after work whenever I feel like.

Not now you cant!

Originally Posted by Gazza77

Takes as long to get to work on the bike as the public transport when you take into consideration parking and getting changed etc.

That's a bit different to London, where using the bike is at least twice as quick as public transport. I could get to work in Central London by bike, in less time than it took to go to the local tube station and wait for a train and then it was still a half-hour tube journey.

I took my bike in for a service yesterday - 25 mins to the dealer by bike, 100 mins back home by tube.

Maybe I should move to Leeds

[Gazza77]

Originally Posted by wyrdness

That's a bit different to London, where using the bike is at least twice as quick as public transport. I could get to work in Central London by bike, in less time than it took to go to the local tube station and wait for a train and then it was still a half-hour tube journey.

I took my bike in for a service yesterday - 25 mins to the dealer by bike, 100 mins back home by tube.

Maybe I should move to Leeds

Would be quicker if the cage drivers on the M62/M1 were a bit more considerate at times and also if I didn't have to move so much stuff to get the bike out at home. That can take 20 mins in itself!

Originally Posted by wyrdness

Maybe I should move to Leeds

But then it'd take you AAAAAGES to get into London.