So what does your weekly commute cost you?

[kabbes]

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

Then why do I live in a shithole with no proper amenities? Something is seriously broken here.

 

[Fledgling]

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

Magic Bus makes Stagecoach buses look like luxuary limos. But I refuse to pay more to allow me to use them. So I pay £29/week. £23 for trains and £6 for bus. That is more than enough imo.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Yearly Gold Card is £2696.40 (£2996 minus 10% fuckwittery-on-First-Great-Western parts deduction ) which works out to about £52.85 per week.

 

[mauvais]

Cycling isn't free for me. Probably at least £500 a year, so £10 a week.

 

[chainsaw cat]

Nothing, I have a fully funded company Merc.

 

[gentlegreen]

Cycling isn't free for me. Probably at least £500 a year, so £10 a week.

Blimey. I seem to have to cough up maybe £100 a year - the odd wheel, transmission, tyres , brakes - so £2 a week for me.

 

[mauvais]

Things on my bike that will probably break or wear out in the next year (about five thousand miles):

* the crankset and/or BB
* 2 chains, 2 cassettes
* 2-4 sets of brake pads
* 1 set of pedals
* 1.25 sets of tyres
* cables
* grips

The whole thing will probably need servicing in a shop maybe four times, and that will cost a fortune. Even servicing at home costs money. Even cleaning it costs money.

Things will wear out over a longer period too, like forks or the saddle, and so you have to factor in a bit of that.

 

[gentlegreen]

(about five thousand miles):

That goes some way to explaining it - I only do about 1800 - at a plodding pace.

 

[mauvais]

The fact that it's race-level kit, on a mountain bike, in all weathers, and serviced/repaired as often as possible to keep it working perfectly probably ups the cost significantly too.

 

[sir.clip]

Hooray for bikes!!!

Free travel forever.

 

[mauvais]

Free, my arse! £3500 and counting, as above.

 

[Sunray]

I fully maintain my bike myself as I can fix everything to pro standards. I have my own maintenance stand and every single tool. All of that has added up to maybe 200 quid. I'm lost without my bike.

I'm utterly amazed at the cost people are putting into their cycles!? Tyres last me 2 years, I do about 3-4000 miles a year on my bike. Bottom bracket will last about the same and they are only 20 quid for a campag one. Only ever gone down a pothole once that did my rim in, in 11 years of cycling. Mavic open pro's FTW.

They way I see it, zone 2/3 travel card is 663 yearly. I need to get to work one way or another, so I'm saving 663 per year. I can buy a decent new road bike every year for that. Certainly means that I can spend what ever I like on the bike and still be saving. Its been about 150 or so in the last year as I went to cantilever brakes and new tyres and have replaced one of the tyres as the new Vittoria were puncture magnets.

 

[mauvais]

I'm an incompetent halfwit so I'd only fuck it up, no matter whether I did it with hundred of pounds of tools or a large blunt rock. My bottom bracket cost me £60. Still cheaper than the train.

 

[quimcunx]

£239 a month season ticket to London all stations.

Have sorted things to mostly work from home.

Would you not be better on PAYG then?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I get one bus each way at the moment so ten quid a week.

 

[FunkyUK]

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

Yeah, but I always arrive at work with a massive grin on my face