Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an 11km/10 mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :(
Higgins wrote: > Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking > issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an 11km/10 > mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :(
It's shit innit? It seems to be Dullville week at work, of the usual 6 or 7 bikes, 3 have bought the dreaded contraptions inside 2 weeks.
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Nige wrote: > Higgins wrote: >> Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking >> issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an >> 11km/10 mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :(
> It's shit innit? It seems to be Dullville week at work, of the usual > 6 or 7 bikes, 3 have bought the dreaded contraptions inside 2 weeks.
A nice Bindit 650 will be your friend. Cheap as chips, sip fuel. Boringly reliable.
> Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking > issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an > 11km/10 mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :(
Ah, you've figured out what the roads are like. Shite, aren't they?
BTW, the next time I'm up in BRX, I'll give you a shout. I expect to be there every fortnight, on average.
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>> Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking >> issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an >> 11km/10 mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :(
> Ah, you've figured out what the roads are like. Shite, aren't they?
Drove from Monaco to home (North Yorks.) last week (in one go, stopping only for fuel/toilet/ferry) and I must say, as I was paying the tolls in France it did strike me that the shitty roads weren't really worthy of the money I was paying heh. And then there's the French road manners/driving...
>>> Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking >>> issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an >>> 11km/10 mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :(
>> Ah, you've figured out what the roads are like. Shite, aren't they?
> Drove from Monaco to home (North Yorks.) last week (in one go, stopping > only > for fuel/toilet/ferry) and I must say, as I was paying the tolls in France > it did strike me that the shitty roads weren't really worthy of the money > I > was paying heh. And then there's the French road manners/driving...
> <shudder and cold sweat>
> Quick flashback there...
Give me French drivers over 99% of the cunts that purport to 'drive' in this country ffs. Especially on a bike.
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Nige, 'It takes a nation of millions to hold me back'.
>> Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking >> issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an >> 11km/10 mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :(
> Ah, you've figured out what the roads are like. Shite, aren't they?
Well, the direct back road route looks OK but it's dug up[1] with a diversion and then there was another diversion on the diversion so I ended up fuck knows where.
I'll need to go investigate if I can get a pushbike or traillie through the works, there's no way I'm going through that shit twice a day.
> BTW, the next time I'm up in BRX, I'll give you a shout. I expect to be > there every fortnight, on average. >
Cool, I don't recall the Belgian moby number off hand but the email addy in the headers is good.
[1]And when the Belgians dig up a road they do it *properly* and it's shut for months.
Hog wrote: > Nige wrote: >> Higgins wrote: >>> Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking >>> issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an >>> 11km/10 mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :( >> It's shit innit? It seems to be Dullville week at work, of the usual >> 6 or 7 bikes, 3 have bought the dreaded contraptions inside 2 weeks.
> A nice Bindit 650 will be your friend. Cheap as chips, sip fuel. > Boringly reliable.
Hmmm, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a "cheap as chips" bike here. The floor price for anything reasonable seems to be about €2500, and that's for pretty modest values of reasonable.
>Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking >issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an 11km/10 >mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :(
> Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking > issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an 11km/10 > mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :(
Best hack I ever had was a Kwak KLR650. Pretty gutless, but bulletproof.
I got mine for under £800 - used it for 2 years and sold it for £700.
Ben wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:07:03 +0100, Higgins > <the.best.names.are.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Drove into the new workplace this morning, to sort out some banking > > issues, and it took 80 minutes to cover what should have been an > > 11km/10 mins trundle. And that was mid-morning :(
> 11km? Pushbike.
Y'know, that's probably not a bad idea. Especially where Higgins works.
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> > A nice Bindit 650 will be your friend. Cheap as chips, sip fuel. > > Boringly reliable.
> Hmmm, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a "cheap as chips" bike > here. The floor price for anything reasonable seems to be about ?2500, > and that's for pretty modest values of reasonable.
You need a commuter hack FFS, not a fancy bike. It will get left out all day in winter weather, you will drop it at 2mph in traffic, and anything respectable is likely to get nicked.
Time for a used GS500 or even a Jawa ratbike. Both are bulletproof and cheap to run. Max speed is irrelevant for a town commute. Scruffy but reliable is good. The less desireable it looks the less you will worry about it and the more likely to find it where you parked it.
