Average Km per year

[bigiain]

Big, I don't know how you can get by without a car.

I'm pretty lucky to live withing easy walking distance of a reasonably good shopping center/supermarket, so grocery shopping is mostly carried home (or for large loads taken home in the shopping trolley). I'm also close enough to just about anything so walking or catching a bus somewhere, then paying for a cab home with larger items works fine (I've done this with a subwoofer and a microwave).

Pretty much anything else I buy either fits on the bike somehow, or gets home delivered. I do have access to the work van, which I borrow maybe once every year or two (last time was to pick up a washing machine a friend gave me).

We occasionally rent a car for trips - we took a rental Falcon down the south coast few winters ago, and we occasionally get loaned a car (we were off up the mountains for a weekend last year in crappy weather and a friend says "why don't you take my car instead of ride?", so we did), but even without renting/borrowing cars occasionally I'd still be _way_ ahead moneywise - one years rego and insurance on a car would cost several times more than I've paid renting and getting things delivered.

big

[tricolore]

Well my bike is purely for pleasure. Owned it since April and done about 3200ks. Car is necessary for me, cant imagine loading a couple of lengths of copper and water blaster on the Duke  

[bigiain]

Car is necessary for me, cant imagine loading a couple of lengths of copper and water blaster on the Duke  

You can carry a reasonable amount of stuff sensibly when required:



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big

[DUCMONROB]

Average I do around 5k pa on the bike and about 40k in the car.

May need to take a posty job so I can reverse the figures.

Rob

[bigiain]

Average I do around 5k pa on the bike and about 40k in the car.

Yeah, but it's not a ~180km round trip to the start of Macquarie Pass for you! 

big

[DUCMONROB]

Yeah, but it's not a ~180km round trip to the start of Macquarie Pass for you! 

big

No but it would be nice if Mac Pass was on the way to work every day!

[goldFiSh]

that's funny - we just won a job in the gong, and I am in the process of luring one of our site supervisors (who is also a rider) to take the job on cause he can visit the site via the rnp and mt kiera

[Dannog]

but even without renting/borrowing cars occasionally I'd still be _way_ ahead moneywise - one years rego and insurance on a car would cost several times more than I've paid renting and getting things delivered.

You absolutely right there Big!  My better half says all the time that we need a second car. The few times I 'ask' to use the car on the weekend or heaven forbid during the week you'd think I was asking for a leg or arm. It's a major deal when the annual service comes around and the cars out of action for a day or 2. It's just amazing how reliatant we become on them. ( I'm sounding like a greenie)

I think I got my way though as I translated 'get a second car' to 'get a bike".

[techno]

I picked up my bike in Nov 2007 with 9,500km on it. Its about to turn over 20,000 so thats about 10K PA. This years Turismo accounts for 4k though.

I work from home so I don't commute. The monster is for weekend fun on tassie roads.  [moto]

[ellingly]

I do about 8000 km a year. I wouldn't mind doing more, but I just don't have time. Stupid job getting in the way - hell, I've been away this year more weekends than I have been here.

When I lived in Tassie I only did 2000 km a year with my previous bike (not a Monster). 85-90% of those on tracks though...

I don't do too much in the car, maybe 5000 km a year in my car and half that in the gf's car. It's not about the distance but where you go and what you do!

[Spider]

damn good point Ellingly, I'd much rather do 2000km of great touring with mates than 10,000k of commuting.

boy, does my girl get shitty when I take her on the commute, she doesn't like sub-50 kph malarkey!

It's not about the distance but where you go and what you do!

[ellingly]

damn good point Ellingly, I'd much rather do 2000km of great touring with mates than 10,000k of commuting.

boy, does my girl get shitty when I take her on the commute, she doesn't like sub-50 kph malarkey!

Sub 50 km/h is not a commute, it is torture! Out of my 27 km there is 1 km that is 60. Around 3 can get blocked up but I just go around it one way or another (usually on the gravel verge... it works. Monsters are dual sport bikes, right?).

I distinctly remember moving up to Canberra from Hobart and putting 1100 km on my bike in less than 22 hours (including the boat ride). Yes, I took the boring route, but I also did more kays in those hours than I did in 6 months in Hobart. None of them made me a better rider (although oggy knobs = great footrests on the Hume).