So what does your weekly commute cost you?

[Badgers]

OK, my bike costs ~£300 and i bought it about 15 years ago, so adding that in adds another £20 a year to my costs, or 40p a week.

My grand total then is £2.40 per week

Never oiled it?
Never serviced it?
Never replaced a tyre?
Don't own a helmet, lock, lights or streamers from handlebars?

Please recalculate and give us THE FACTS DAMMIT!!!!!

 

[Boycey]

i honestly haven't a clue, the bicycle is a collection of parts most of which i've had over 6 years, the frame was 120 three years ago. less than 30 a year on parts... ummm- i eat alot?

 

[gentlegreen]

What price health, fitness, never being late for work, and a commute I actually look forward to ???

Actual costs - bike tyres and repairs.

 

[ChrisFilter]

£36 a week for a travelcard, but going to start cycling in properly again soon. 11 miles each way, so will hopefully cost me these extra chins I'm sporting at the moment.

 

[marty21]

Oyster Zones 1-3... It's £116 a month, £29 a week. (I was going to times it by 12, BUT I have a couple of weeks off here and there when I don't buy it)

i do the same, although it's £99.10 per month - so try and time it so it runs out when i'm about to go on holiday - i hate the thought of there being a few days on there when i can't use it...

when i was closer to work, i used to just put a tenner on the oyster, walk on the nice days - get a bus when it was raining and that, I'd have to get travel cards at weekends if i was going somewhere, but if i had any appointments, would buy a travel card and claim the expenses back - free travel ftw

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Never oiled it?
Never serviced it?
Never replaced a tyre?
Don't own a helmet, lock, lights or streamers from handlebars?

Please recalculate and give us THE FACTS DAMMIT!!!!!

That was allowing £100 a year for maintenance costs. Which is probably what it averages out at - for eg, this year, i had to pay £140 to replace my back wheel hub gear/brake cylinder but that has lasted 15 years so it only works out at ~£10 a year in total. I try to have my bike serviced once a year which comes in at ~£40-80 usually. I have a dynamo for my lights so no costs there really. No helmet Lube for chainset lasts ages, do minor maintenance myself, had same lock for ~4 years now, anything streaming from my handlebar is usually bits of detrius that i find in the street

 

[Badgers]

That was allowing £100 a year for maintenance costs. Which is probably what it averages out at - for eg, this year, i had to pay £140 to replace my back wheel hub gear/brake cylinder but that has lasted 15 years so it only works out at ~£10 a year in total. I try to have my bike serviced once a year which comes in at ~£40-80 usually. I have a dynamo for my lights so no costs there really. No helmet Lube for chainset lasts ages, do minor maintenance myself, had same lock for ~4 years now, anything streaming from my handlebar is usually bits of detrius that i find in the street

Thank you

 

[neonwilderness]

My car costs about £6 a week (roughly 3 miles a day) taking into account things like maintenance and depreciation. A travel card would cost between £14 and £20 depending on how many zones I need and it would take an extra 20 minutes each way.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Thank you

How very dare you!!!

my lovely steed enjoying the big sexy festy

 

[spring-peeper]

Hubby drives over 100km each way to work. He pays anywhere from $100 to $175 a week on gas and I've no idea on what the maintenance costs are.

 

[kabbes]

Annual travelcard -- about £2,600
Annual parking -- about £600
Weekly petrol -- about £10

Weekly cost of that -- about £75.

Am I the highest so far?

 

[Final]

free (well the cost of the bike - £500, which I use for all commuting and for cycling at weekends for fun), a big smile in all weathers and exercise. 15 minute ride to work.

Me too - cycle in is the highlight of my day.

I keep getting thoughts about moving out a zone or two to increase the commute time.

 

[kabbes]

Am I the highest so far?

Hubby drives over 100km each way to work. He pays anywhere from $100 to $175 a week on gas and I've no idea on what the maintenance costs are.

If it is the top end of that, at $175 and if the Sterling is going through a crisis against the Canadian Dollar then his is more expensive than mine. It sounds like his average is a little lower than mind on a like-for-like basis though.

 

[lighterthief]

Ah, the joy of bikes!

Free on the face of it, but I guess £900 for the bike spread over say 6 years, a generous £200 per year on maintenance and parts: £6.70 a week.

 

[Structaural]

4 miles cycling, 23 miles by train each way. Cost 11 euros per day plus 1 euro per day for bike storage if I can't find a spot for free.

Need two bikes though, reasonable one between home and station (200 euros worth), shitty one for station to work (79 euros). Can't be arsed to carry a fold-up.

 

[El Jefe]

£9.

10 90p bus fares

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

£9.

10 90p bus fares

i hate to break it to you mate but they've gone up to £1 now!!!

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Well so far it's been my first ride into uni on the new bike so including ancillaries cost it's about £430 a day. I win.

 

[marty21]

£9.

10 90p bus fares

they have gone up as paulie says, and you have to pay extra at the weekend if you are travelling about london town

 

[quimcunx]

You car drivers better be counting the cost of your capital outlay too!

and road tax! and insurance! And maintenance!


I'm on £18.50 ish a week for a yearly travel card.

 

[kabbes]

You car drivers better be counting the cost of your capital outlay too!

Missed this until mrs. above me pointed it out.

I'd say that it depends whether you would have bought the car anyway. Although it is certainly fair to include depreciation costs as a consequence of driving it on the commute. (Also any additional insurance). These were generally reckoned to be somewhere in the 20p to 40p per mile price range last time I checked. That would add another £12 to £24 per week to my cost. Let's include some element of capital cost and call the total a nice round £100 per week.

 

[marty21]

Oh, and I suppose cost of bike spread over time. My last one was £300 and lasted 3 years, so bump it up to £8.60

You car drivers better be counting the cost of your capital outlay too!

I have a car, 10 years old, worth sod all tbf, so no more depreciation, and use it at the weekend and for going away on holiday - tend to have most of my holidays in the uk, but don't use it for work, so haven't included it in my commuting costs

 

[FunkyUK]

Motorbike 80 miles round trip into London and back.
Pretty close to £9/day in petrol

£45/week in petrol. (Plus, Tax, Insurance, Tyres, Servicing) I reckon over a year it works out about £15-£18 a day - a little less than an annual train season ticket

 

[Griff]

Motorbike 80 miles round trip into London and back.
Pretty close to £9/day in petrol

£45/week in petrol. (Plus, Tax, Insurance, Tyres, Servicing) I reckon over a year it works out about £15-£18 a day a little less than an annual train season ticket

Fucking hell, that's steep for a bike innit? 80 miles at £9 a day!!

 

[Melinda]

£239 a month season ticket to London all stations.

Have sorted things to mostly work from home.

 

[Geri]

The cost of my bike or additional wear on my shoes.

If I do get the bus for a week (say if I am feeling ill) then it's £15.

 

[bluestreak]

Annual travelcard -- about £2,600
Annual parking -- about £600
Weekly petrol -- about £10

Weekly cost of that -- about £75.

Am I the highest so far?

I think so, but IIRC, you're probably the best paid person on the boards too!

 

[Maggot]

As I'm being a lazy, wimpy non-cold weather cyclist, currently £25 a week for my travelcard...

I am currently being a lazy, wimpy non-cold (and wet)weather cyclist. But when I don't cycle, I drive which costs about £25 per week in petrol.

 

[rubbershoes]

it's about 25 miles each way and costs about £50 in petrol per week

but i reclaim every single penny back so it costs me nowt

 

[sam/phallocrat]

£12/week for unlimited travel on the tram and stagecoach (spit) buses