Attempted bike theft 6:40 in Enfield

[Falco]

[asta1]

I'm generally of the opinion that public tranport is shit and should fuck off.

At home its about a mile to the station, but there are only a couple trains a day (village), and they stop before I would be wanting to return home, so no dice. I used the service to get to work once last year because I fell of my bike, fucked that and hurt my leg so I couldn't drive properly. Took about 2hrs45 to do 50 miles and required a trip into central birmingham, a walk across town and then a shit slow train back from there. Cost me £18 return I think (car used to cost £8 in fuel, £2 in insurance and a nominal £1 in expendables each day), but I could do the trip in 1hr30 in the car or maybe 1hr15 on the bike.

At Uni I could use the bus day to day if I was so inclined. Service is pretty good and at £250/yr it isn't prohibitive. However, I tend to buy a cheap bike for £30 on gumtree, get to uni quicker, save monies and accept that I'll get wet once a week. I never have to wait for buses, it's always there when I want it and it's always going exactly where I want. Never had one nicked yet, but I'd have to loose 8 of them a year to equal the bus pass costs...
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CBT Acquired: 09/07/2015
A2 Licence Passed: 12/02/16
Current Bike: Yamaha MT-07 bought 02/07/16

[stinkwheel]

[Falco]

[stevo as b4]

I've used the train for work for a few months at a time, but most of my public transport use in for social/domestic purposes. Visiting friends and family, and days out somewhere different, or to get me and my mountain bike to some interesting places for off road rides etc.

Unlike the examples above, I live 5min walk from the local station, on a main line. Therefore in peak times there's a train every 20min max and at other times probably every 30-40min.

For work it's about 20miles to a city outskirts depot, and thats £7 a day return. At the other end it's about 8min walk to work. Still not bad for the distance, and because it's slow crawling traffic for most of the journey by road, I'd expect petrol consumption to be that much or more a day, and that's not taking into account car/bike running costs.

I do get that if your out in the sticks, or on a branch line, or just a south East trains user your rather more fucked than my situation.

Buses, bit more hit and miss here, but even with hourly services, I live 2min walk from a bus stop and only 15min from the bus stand in town. Im lucky compared to some, and to that end even if my commute on public transport is over an hour all told, I can't justify the hassle and expense of an hours drive or ride, and the need to have a reliable and ready to use fueled up car or bike available at all times.

Add to that I wouldn't trust any of my vehicles for daily commuting, even though at the other end they could be locked in a gated compound with cctv.

[M.C]

[Wonko The Sane]

Public transport; meh

To get to collage was one train, every hour, if it turned up, then a half hour walk across town. Couldn't get a student pass for reduced fair as I was traveling across a county boundary and should apparently have been getting on at the next station, the one that closed two years before I was born. The station at town was generally crap, it was the older of the two stations with an un-lit subway and was a bit dodgy.

The bus option was mum driving me for 20 mins to the start of the bus route and me being collected again on the return journey. I used to cycle any day that I didn't have to carry a large portfolio case.


At uni, could never figure out or find out which bus was going where and from where, just cycled everywhere instead.

currently, public transport to get to work is 2hrs 10 mins assuming the bus is not on strike, a different bus company does the return route (exact mirror route) so I can't buy a day saver, have to buy two singles and then two trams across Manchester. I can do the trip by bike and have an hour extra in bed and still be in early / allow for bad traffic and it's cheaper (pubic transport is about £14 per day)

At the first sign of bad weather the busses stop running (but the preserved railway carries on happily but starts running too late to be of use)

If I worked closer to home (I'm only 16 miles away from work) then public transport might be more viable, but then I'd probably start cycling it again.
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[Rogerborg]

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The Googlemaps reckons that I would be quicker cycling the 9.4 miles in and 10.7 miles out (wut?) then waiting on the best-case sequence of trains, buses and Hansom cabs necessary to commute.

Today I did foggit out and take the car because of icedeath roads. Even parked miles south of the river to avoid Glasgow's ever-expanding carhate zone, it's still far, far quicker and more convenient than any conceivable prole transport.

Edinburgh, well I did park-and-ride into there a few years back on the X-for-eXpress shuttle bus. It wasn't, then it went downhill from there.

Public transport outside of that London is and will remain primarily the last resort of the desperate.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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[stinkwheel]

[arry]

[M.C]

[notabikeranym...]

Every public service is a fucking joke. The police can't even fucking spell in their emails and apparently don't have working phones.

All stupid cunts.

[Andy_Pagin]

[SuperMike]

Yeah it's a lesson that I have just learned from the little arsewipes round my neck of the woods. Got home from work, and was using the bike again a couple of hours later. Didn't put my lock round it. I get back on the bike and stall twice, then realise that the steering is pointing to the left but the wheel is pointing forwards. Someone has had a crack at it in the two flipping hours I was parked up, couldn't break the steering lock and that's me thankfully only £70 out of pocket today getting it all straightened back again. Can't leave anything with two wheels anywhere! Lesson learned.

[M.C]

[Wonko The Sane]

[Johnnythefox]

I don't like buses, too many poor people use them.

[CBFcarl]

I bought a bike to get away from the reliance on public transport. I haven't had a job that just required one bus in a long time, so now, if one is late, or doesn't turn up, or just doesn't stop, then it has a knock on effect for the rest of the trip.

Where I work now is across the road from a job that I had about 6 years ago. It used to take me two buses and a shade under three hours to get here. Worse on the way home.

I now live slightly further away, but can do it door to door in 35 minutes, sometimes quicker, sometimes slower.

Public transport is a joke. Where I live, it was £20 a week, for just Rotherham. If you wanted Rotherham / Sheffield you could add £15. I put £12 in every fortnight for petrol.

In fact, where I live now, I would have to get a bus from one operator to go to the town centre which is going away from where I need to go, and then get two buses to get where I am working.
Alternatively, I could get a bus to town, a train to Doncaster and then the company that I work for have shuttle mini-buses from the train station to the office. I still don't trust any of them to do what I need them to do.
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[notabikeranym...]

I just got pulled over on the way home tonight.

They clocked I didnt put "commuting" on my insurance and I told them I was jus coming back from work.

They pulled me for accelerating too hard in a 20. Idk what speed I was at.

Threatened 9 points and a £300 fine, but let me go with a warning.

Funny how they continually try to fuck us for missing a fucking detail on a piece of paper.

Have I ever thrown acid in someone's face or destroyed their property? No.

Fuck sake.

I'm on the verge of a meltdown.

I've left my gf, my bike has about £1,500 damage, and now I'm getting pulled by feds.

FUCK.

[stevo as b4]

[M.C]

[notabikeranym...]

It was jus typical line of questioning, my head is not in the right place and I admitted I was riding home from work.

The guy then checks my insurance to check it's not stolen etc (fucking hilarious init) and goes "you've only got social domestic and pleasure on here, so you're not insured to ride at the moment"

Knobs the lot of them.

I'm fully a part of FTP movement, they can suck my dick.

If the cunt rings me about attempted bike theft, which they wont, I'm gonna tell him to fuck off on the phone.

[Rogerborg]

Did you refuse to buy some lucky heather from a gypsy?

Makes you wonder if you'd been better off just wheelying away, calling it in as stolen when you got home, then "finding" it again the next morning.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[M.C]

[Ste]