Jdsk wrote:How easily can you rent a suitable vehicle when you want one?
Jonathan
You could also join a car club???
Taxi or delivery service....
Cheers James
Jdsk wrote:How easily can you rent a suitable vehicle when you want one?
Jonathan
Jamesh wrote:Oldjohnw wrote:I go fly fishing on a Stillwater 18 miles away, using my bike.
You wouldn't want to go carp fishing that distance away on a bike!!!
Cheers James
Oldjohnw wrote:I might have difficulty moving a grand piano.
ChrisButch wrote:Oldjohnw wrote:I might have difficulty moving a grand piano.
Tried moving a grand in a car?
arnsider wrote:The costs involved with car ownership are utterly indiscriminate.
It is perfectly possible now with GPS and powerful computers to pay by the mile for both road funding and insurance, so why do we all have to pay fixed road funding if we only use our cars over a few thousand miles a year, compared with a professional traveller?
As an incentive, why don't motorcycle owners get discounted road tax if they also have cars?
Surely, a 50cc motorcycle would suffice for a vast number of commutes, especially in summer.
There are myriad ways a creative and inventive fiscal system could operate.
Oldjohnw wrote:ChrisButch wrote:Oldjohnw wrote:I might have difficulty moving a grand piano.
Tried moving a grand in a car?
I was specifically referring to someone saying they moved house using only their bike.
Carlton green wrote:Oldjohnw wrote:ChrisButch wrote:Tried moving a grand in a car?
I was specifically referring to someone saying they moved house using only their bike.
I believe that this is the text referred to:
“I have a friend that has never had a car. He has a Surly Big Dummy and has move the entire contents of his house on it.
It needs a mindset change and preparation.”
Much as I think that Cargo Bikes are wonderful there’s a lot in my house that, to my mind, couldn’t be moved on one, but maybe they could be moved by one. If I had a very large trailer and a suitable bike to tow it with then it would almost certainly be possible to move the contents of my home by bike - I’d prefer easier options though. Pianos are typically very heavy, awkward and not particular hard to damage; my initial reaction is that it would be best to call a man with a van rather than to attempt to shift one by bike.
hamster wrote:So in the end we decided not to have a car and review it after six months, renting one in the meantime every time we wanted.
Six month later we had never rented one and the decision didn't even have to be revisited.
Oldjohnw wrote:Whatever the preposition, the proposition would be impossible.