any one have a car

Guest · Posted: 18:49 - 10 Aug 2002 Post subject: any one have a car

does any one have a car as well,

nsr big bore and a polo 1.9 tdi

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WildGoose · White Van Man Joined: 20 Mar 2002 Karma :

/me points to BIKEchatforums sign :lol:

cars are shit, accept it and move on, if you dont share the same opinion, then go to carchatforums.com

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jus kiddin mate, no i dont have a car, no plans to get one in near future

Korn · Admin Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Karma :

Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

sold it when I moved to London - no point having a car in the world's biggest traffic jam.

Jon W. · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Karma :

i have an Astra 1.4 and getting a small bike soon to get to and from uni!

and to the people who say 'cars are crap' - grow up

bet you wouldn't say that if you got into a TVR Speed 12

(although i do prefer bikes to cars though)

Dylan · Trackday Trickster Joined: 03 Feb 2002 Karma :

A good thing about cars is that you dont have to wear all that damn safety clothing!!! And you dont get wet in the rain.... Apart from that, ide much rather have a bike.

Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

Ideal situation is having both.

Car for when you need to do some serious shopping / weather stinks / long long journey / taking a bunch of mates somewhere...

Bike for just having fun on / getting through traffic / free parking...

Mrs_Hippy · The Pink Lady Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Karma :

We had a rather nifty 2000 renault megan sport elesea - nifty spoiler and everything but we part exchanged it for the raptors. Can manage fine without it - feel better on a bike. We dont rely too much on other people either - except for taking cats to vets. Shopping is done with a fully luggaged up bandit.

I bet its a whole other storey if you have to allow for having kids though - not something thats ever going to worry us Smile

Why on eart would I want kids when I can have another motorbike and a new cat Laughing

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WildGoose · White Van Man Joined: 20 Mar 2002 Karma :

dont tell me to grow up

i dont like cars, i see no benefits in them, and i dont like the looks of any really

people manage and have managed on bikes for ages, as im 17 kids arent planned so why dont you just let me have an opinion

gettin wet can be avoided with the right clothing
storage can be obtained with the right equipment on a bike
and the benefits over cars are obvious

as i say just my opinion, but dont tell me im wrong jon cos its just an opinion, i dont like cars and thats the end of it, for me anyway

Korn · Admin Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Karma :

Cars have their uses, it's just riding through stationary rush hour traffic filtering past the thousands and thousands of massive estate cars and even bigger range rovers all carrying exactly one fucking person to work gets me wound up.

You could fit 4 bikes in the space taken up by one of those cunts, and for the money they all spend on petrol every month they could easily afford to finance a bike/scooter. Hell some of the tits driving the biggest cars could finance a bloody fireblade and still make a saving and still get to work quicker.

But most of them are too thick to figure this out. In fact most of them are too thick to operate their chosen vehicles correctly, let alone think about things that might make them less of a twat.

Evil or Very Mad

Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

Damn right! Evil or Very Mad

chunkielad · Nearly there... Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Karma :

Gotta agree with Korn - twats who missuse cars are the bastards - I have 4 kids and a wife - a bike alone would be impractical - I can't do that much shopping on a bike and i tell you what, I'd never find insurance to have them all on the bike with me so car = common sense.

The bike is for fun and when I'm on my own Smile

(Don't have a bike at the mo tho' - in between two wheeled vehicles at the mo...)
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Mrs_Hippy · The Pink Lady Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Karma :

I must admit the one thing I likes about having a car was that it was a giant handbag. I had everything in there blankets, stuff to make coffee, first aid stuff, water, etc. It was great. I have however got used to answering the question - does anyone have **** with no - insted of yes in the car.

The problem with the missuse of cars is something I agree with you guys on - but in there is always the argument that all people demand to have the right to do what they want to do an restrictions to that are *allegedley* an infringment of human rights. People will argue if they want to get in their car and drive to work on their own it is their right to do so. However it is also funny that the average car driver would appear to have more rights than the average bike driver......
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PsychoHippy · Jammy Git Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Karma :

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As I've said before I was always a car guy (comes from my father being a mechanic and me learning to drive at 12!!

however I now have a bike and really enjoy it, I see the advantages of it as well as the disadvantages of it. I mean I wear suits and crap like that for work and carrying a brief case aint exactly that easy on a bike Smile

however some days I dress down if I know I aint ghot a load of docs and not meeting customers etc so I'll use the bike!

then I need my car for the journeys back up north home (about 550mile round trip!)

as its been said if you can have both you can get the best of both worlds! if you cant then you have to make your choices on personel preferance and useage! if I had to only have one it would have to be a car!

but now I have a bike I'll always have one as its just sooo much fun Laughing

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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

I have both cars and bikes, and both have their places. Cars keep you dry on the way to work (pity that you then get wet walking from the car park) and mean you can listen to the radio, carry the shopping / cat / spare bike engine / tow a bike trailer.

I used to do the shopping on a bike. Cheated a bit as I would go to Sainsburys, do my shopping using a basket, pay for it all then bungee the basket of shopping onto the back seat. If it wouldnt fit in the basket then I wouldnt be eating it

When it comes down to it I like both. As to performance and which is quicker, it doesnt really matter as there will always be someone with a faster vehicle than me

All the best

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PsychoHippy · Jammy Git Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Karma :

I agree with Kieth, both bikes and cars have their place. Everyone bithces about cars being crap, and given a choice of either I'd ride instead of drive everytime. However, I think what most people on here are annoyed about is the way SOME car drivers drive inconsiderately or underestimate a bikes ability/power.
What people do seem to forget is that there are a lot of car/van drivers who do drive responsably and even make extra allowances for motorbikes (moveing over to allow us through a line of traffic etc.), it's just that the bad ones stick in our minds more.

I'll get off my soap box now Smile

Robby · Dirty Old Man Joined: 16 May 2002 Karma :

they both have the places - but it would be much better if cars were the minority on the roads and bikes were the majority - say 80% bikes instead of the 10% or whatever it is now.

i do my shopping on the bike. i can fit a couple of basketfuls of stuff into the top box, and thats all i need.

cars are more expensive too. i have friends at school that think they got a good deal on their 1 litre shitboxes paying 2.5 grand a year. with 0-60 in 18.5 seconds.

andrew · Mister Road Rage Joined: 03 Feb 2002 Karma :

Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

Psychohippy, I don't think everyone dislikes car drivers because the majority of them have little consideration for bikes, it's like Korn says, you've got these massive cars with 1 bloody person in them all the time.

I frequently go to fill my bike up and I'll have filled up, paid, and ridden off and the guy in the 4x4 next to me is still pumping petrol in. The world is pulling it's hair out because we're running out of oil(petrol) yet if we all rode bikes the remaining supply would probably last us 3x as long.

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Robby · Dirty Old Man Joined: 16 May 2002 Karma :

if i get a 4 wheeler it'll be a pickup. i like them.

when i turn 21 i'm doing my hgv licence, so my license will read A,B,C,D,E fkp

WildGoose · White Van Man Joined: 20 Mar 2002 Karma :

if i ever get 4 wheels

it will be a transit van, so if you go to buy something big you can actually take it home without dismantiling the second half of the car to get it in

then "when" i crash my bike i can use the transit to carry to mangled lump of metal home

no enjoyment for me out of cars as ive already said

i refuse to just jump on the bandwagon and set to work clogging up our already saturated road network