Have i gone mad...

i need both.

I get round it by making sure MrsApe has a car. Simple.

I recently got rid of my car (not by choice, it was kaput! ) and started using the bike for everything. I thought i was going to miss the car loads but i've been really enjoying using the bike to commute etc.

It's even better for my health - I now walk to friend's houses and the shops etc whereas before I would have made the 5 min drive to those places. If I need anything big picking up like bags of cement then friends & family have so far been happy to help in return for a few beers or other general bribery

Originally Posted by rictus01

Hmmm, managed about 15 year without one, every ride no matter what presents it's own challanges, that's part of the fun, but if that's what you want, then do it.

Personally, even the prospect of driving I find defeatest, although the wife offered to buy me a new automatic car, even with my current limitations I went for a scooter instead, but then perhaps that just shows I'm the mad one, which will come as no surprise to anybody.

Cheers Mark.

Pff, you've not been 15 years without a car, just so happens it's not you driving

Buy a rickly old Bandit 1200, then you can go to work on the back wheel with a smile on your face and you won't even have to wash it. Oh, and sit up bikes are fun on diesel, i know.

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

Pff, you've not been 15 years without a car, just so happens it's not you driving

every other shift on the ambulance you had to, so I do drive, just don't and haven't owned a car in 15 years.

I could probably do without having my own car.
Mrs Tricky has a decent little runabout which I'm insured on.

Fact is I like my car. I don't actually use it very often and it spends most of its time sat on the drive. I've thought about selling it a few times but just can't bring myself to do it.

When I do drive it I really enjoy it. I leave for work quite early so there is very rarley much traffic. It's nice to have the choice but is a fecking expensive luxury.

I also have a car which Mrs Bignev uses on a daily basis for work. I hardly ever drive it now and find it a pain now when I have to. It's sooooooo slow.

The daily commute into Belfast is like diesel alley but I've sort of got used to it. It still gets me nervous but my knees don't ache as much from squeezing the tank as they used too. I've only had the bike on the road from October so up to now I've only had wet weather riding that's why I'm enjoying myself so much now.

Originally Posted by Baph

What you have there is a pretty mild case of Kwakitis!

If you find you can't put the autosol tube down, then you really need help urgently.

I was looking at that link you sent me on MSN baph, to the valve clearences thing. And wondered if kwak would autosol his engine innards to a shine aswell..


..but then i thought, that'd be a step to far, even for kwak...surely?

Matt

i do take the alloys off my car and clean the back if that counts? and the front sprocket cover.