Anyone drive their FD daily to work?

JasonC · October 23, 2009, 04:09:54 PM

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!

Bulla · October 23, 2009, 04:13:24 PM

I do and the school run !

wiggman2030 · October 23, 2009, 04:40:39 PM

No not on my wage, would cost more getting there than i make at work lol

rx7boy · October 23, 2009, 05:25:09 PM

Yeah I do, just have to keep it on low boost setting of 0.5 so I dont kill fuel !!

philwhite · October 23, 2009, 05:31:46 PM

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.

nuki · October 23, 2009, 09:28:44 PM

ye. i used the car 8 months every day and night doing alot of miles Â£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 Â£100+ a week petrol to Â£25-30 is a MASSIVE saving per month off my monthly wage.

Nik da Greek · October 24, 2009, 12:12:57 AM

I use my \'7 as a daily driver all year...this is how it ended up looking in the ice and grit last winter

You need a certain amount of callous indifference to do this to such a thoroughbred sportscar, tbh :mad:

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

DrDan · October 24, 2009, 09:30:36 AM

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 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.

JasonC · October 24, 2009, 12:12:24 PM

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!!

Nik da Greek · October 24, 2009, 12:20:20 PM

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....

....green ones are faster, apparently

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

JasonC · October 24, 2009, 12:43:11 PM

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...

rx7boy · October 24, 2009, 01:02:45 PM

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....

....green ones are faster, apparently 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 !!

Nik da Greek · October 24, 2009, 01:09:37 PM

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

russellparkerx · October 24, 2009, 02:42:05 PM

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.

DrDan · October 24, 2009, 08:58:08 PM

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.