I commute about 200 miles a week most of the time by bike but now, as the winter is getting closer the thought of coming home in the dark, freezing my nuts off on my 2 stroke honda nsr is putting me off slightly!
Anyone else doing similar or am i completely mad? I am prepared for the higher fuel costs, but going from 60 mpg to about 18 is going to be horrific!
I do and the school run !
No not on my wage, would cost more getting there than i make at work lol
Yeah I do, just have to keep it on low boost setting of 0.5 so I dont kill fuel !!
I do at the moment, only about 100 miles a week, hoping to start cycling soon as I feel guilty using her for commuting.
The trouble is I enjoy driving the car way too much and tend to \'extende\' my drive home by a few miles, which adds to the cost.
ye. i used the car 8 months every day and night doing alot of miles £100/120 a week petrol infact. now i baught another car a rover 416 and the running costs feel like a scooter and then when i get in the RX at weekends it really does feel like a super car. the handling, power, everything its absolutley awesome lol going from £100+ a week petrol to £25-30 is a MASSIVE saving per month off my monthly wage.:)
I use my \'7 as a daily driver all year...this is how it ended up looking in the ice and grit last winter :eek: You need a certain amount of callous indifference to do this to such a thoroughbred sportscar, tbh :mad:
(http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv43/Nik_da_Greek/My%20new%20RX%207%20version%20one/DSCF2496.jpg)
(http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv43/Nik_da_Greek/My%20new%20RX%207%20version%20one/DSCF2499.jpg)
In actual fact, I\'ve been lucky enough to break the FD most winters so far, and ended up commuting on my Kwak anyway, so I feel the pain of the dilemma you\'re in. Looks like it\'ll be the same agin this year, as my Rex in its long drawn out death throes, again. Is it a 125 or 250 NSR, btw? Please don\'t tell me its a card-ignition 250, or I\'ll be very jealous :Giggle
Quote from: Nik da Greek;649816I use my \'7 as a daily driver all year...this is how it ended up looking in the ice and grit last winter :eek: You need a certain amount of callous indifference to do this to such a thoroughbred sportscar, tbh :mad:
Nik,
It\'s a car. It would be a waste NOT to drive it :Thumbs-up
[That\'s not to say you shouldn\'t look after it too!]
If I had the means to own any car I wanted I would never buy them as investments... but to drive!
:3gears-rh
Dan.
PS FD#1 is for sale (over on the "other" forum: http://www.fduk.org/forum/showthread.php?p=148368) Will add a ForSale on here too, in a minute.
Quote from: Nik da Greek;649816Is it a 125 or 250 NSR, btw? Please don\'t tell me its a card-ignition 250, or I\'ll be very jealous :Giggle
Nah it\'s the 125! Had it since April can get about 80 of it no probs - 90 if i\'ve got a good straight a strong tail wind haha!. Hoping to get my test done by the end of the year and getting a ZX6 or similar :chat
I do confess that i actually prefer commuting on the bike - less time stuck behind grannies in micras (my route is a complete overtake fest). But i have had the days were i cant decide on the bike or the rex, it\'s a dilema - but a good one to have, i\'m sorta looking forward to using it daily although my wallet isn\'t!
BTW, those pics are heartbreaking!!
Yeah, it makes you sooooo impatient riding a bike when you get stuck back in a car. I just sit there thinking "if I was on the bike now, I could zoom up the outside of theis queue, \'ave them off the lights and be gone!"
Good choice of ZX-6, btw :Thumbs-up....this is mine....
(http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv43/Nik_da_Greek/My%20Kawasaki%20636%20Ninja/DSCF1723.jpg)
(http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv43/Nik_da_Greek/My%20Kawasaki%20636%20Ninja/DSCF4877.jpg)
(http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv43/Nik_da_Greek/My%20Kawasaki%20636%20Ninja/DSCF4878.jpg)
....green ones are faster, apparently :D As to what Dr Dan says, I completely agree, mate, and I\'ve held forth on that topic many times. There\'s no point having a car and not using it for driving about in....it just so happens mine\'s regularly too sick to do much driving :2Mad
Looks great mate! The green ones look particularly mean!
To be honest, its more riding home in the dark thats putting me off rather than the cold. I have about 8 miles of an A road thats not greatly lit, not that driving my rx in the dark is any easier...:D
Quote from: Nik da Greek;649857Yeah, it makes you sooooo impatient riding a bike when you get stuck back in a car. I just sit there thinking "if I was on the bike now, I could zoom up the outside of theis queue, \'ave them off the lights and be gone!"
Good choice of ZX-6, btw :Thumbs-up....this is mine....
(http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv43/Nik_da_Greek/My%20Kawasaki%20636%20Ninja/DSCF1723.jpg)
(http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv43/Nik_da_Greek/My%20Kawasaki%20636%20Ninja/DSCF4877.jpg)
(http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv43/Nik_da_Greek/My%20Kawasaki%20636%20Ninja/DSCF4878.jpg)
....green ones are faster, apparently :D As to what Dr Dan says, I completely agree, mate, and I\'ve held forth on that topic many times. There\'s no point having a car and not using it for driving about in....it just so happens mine\'s regularly too sick to do much driving :2Mad
Absolutely Stunning, going to be getting myself a bike soon, that looks luverly !!
Quote from: rx7boy;649863Absolutely Stunning, going to be getting myself a bike soon, that looks luverly !!
Cheers, dude! It\'s pretty much stock, mostly just the zorst and a few lumps of carbon thrown at it :o. I traded "down" to the \'636 after a few FireBlades had got me well into "140mph every day" paranoia. I struggle to see the point of litre bikes on the road, nowadays, you can\'t use even a minute fraction of their performance. I\'ll take scalpel handling over blunderbuss power any day, ta :yes
Warm it up and use it - don\'t worry at all. Brace yourself for the fuel bill though...
I used to love my 2 stroke bikes, completely agree that litre bikes are pointless. I bought a 2007 R1 new - Biggest waste of cash ever. Going back to an Aprilia 250 next summer.
Quote from: Nik da Greek;649857As to what Dr Dan says, I completely agree, mate, and I\'ve held forth on that topic many times. There\'s no point having a car and not using it for driving about in....it just so happens mine\'s regularly too sick to do much driving :2Mad
Good man!
My all-time respect for "just driving the thing" goes to the guy in the US that competes in classic car races in his Ferrari 250 GTO (or whatever it was that is valued in the millions), and spanked it against a tire-wall...
... his attitude seemed to be "Rebuilt it from a shell before, this is nothing but a scratch, easily fixed!" :)
If I had the means, *that\'s* the way I would roll :)
Dan.
Up until 2004 my RX7 was a daily driver. That means 12 years of using her every day. It never left me stranded, never broke etc. In 2005 she broke and that started my restoring adventure. Needed paint etc. The body and interior are almost complete. Soon a new motor and on the road again.
im doing 130 miles a day so i dont use my rex!! i`d have to do an extra 4 hours to pay for fuel lol
I used to drive my FD every day to work, but I was spanking something like £230 a month on petrol, so I got a little run-about and now I spend probably a quarter of that.
I recently had to drive it again for a week as my Dad\'s car broke down, and I loved every minute of it...you just have to resist the temptation to blast it from point to point.
I do most of the time. Only 10-15miles per day but it\'s a good spank to work and back.
£50 a week in fuel though!!! lol
although there is a particularly pretty girl who gets on the bus I do if I don\'t drive - so may have to leave rexy in the garage for a while until i pluck up the courage to ask her out. Then put her in the back seats so I can see her knickers when she gets out.... :Giggle :yes