We are. You can see it in this thread.

Last time I looked at one (admittedly a fair few years back) it was all battery and no boot.

The current generation is a huge advance on the previous.

Do you work for Toyota?

just because I happen to visit far and wide is irrelevant in this discussion as many older drivers or invalids do not travel far for their own personal reason…

Motorway service stations are prime examples of profiteering in all the goods they sell by merely being there. Those motorists who are driving down the motorway looking for a small porcelain cottage to aid the journey may not know the local area off the motorway and the SS know it and abuse them because of it. Similarly buying a burger at Silverstone GP weekend. The list is endless.

Sure, but if you're doing such small mileage you're not going to be using so very much fuel, and for those drivers the down-side of living somewhere affluent like Newbury is that their annual petrol bill is going to be in the order of £10 more expensive than if they lived in somewhere grotty like Redditch. Just running a car costs you annually a couple of grand in insurance, tax, mot, serving, and depreciation, and compared to that the fuel cost difference is vanishingly small, whereas running a small efficient car will save maybe a thousand times as much.


Yes indeed, the precious things of the shop are much better value locally. Are you local?

This is why Simon and I get on so well.

If we are to percive higher prices as a measure of higher demand, then I presume Newbury is bucking the trend in the country's cutting back on fuel expenditure?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/personal-fin...nth-low-2207700

motormad - what exactly are those strange people doing in your animated gif?

Still, one good thing is that the government is to invest £94 million in a cycling revolution akin to the infrastructure in the Netherlands. Cycling is a green and efficient means of local transport so it should help us stay fit, help cut CO2 emissions and save us money in gas.

I don't understand how cycling saves money in gas. Is the government proposing some kind of compulsory installation of methane collecting apparatus attached to bike saddles?

It also means you arrive at work sweaty at best, and under a bus at the worst

Biking is OK, but bike technology is old fashioned and people still get too many punctures. Then there's wind, rain, hills (in Newbury), thieves, vandals, etc.

If you have to ask you aren't ready.

Pity that cyclists aren't paying for it!

They are, along with everyone else!

Exactly!
Why shouldn't cyclists contribute, as do other users of vehicles especially if they want all these wonderful facilities?

But car technology is old fashioned: they are about 75% mechanically inefficient, you get punctures, road tax, expensive repairs, parking tickets higher and higher gas prices, pile-ups, numpty BMW driving muppets, thieves, vandals etc. Also, if WBC gets its nasty way, more and more on-street parking charges!

Most cyclists do pay tax and therefore will be paying towards these 'wonderful facilities'.

Not many of the cyclists I see.
Probably on benefits and unlikely they even paid for the bike!
Look, I'm not against cycling and cyclists and agree that it is a good thing both from a health and environmental point of view, but I think they should pay their way and they should adhere to the laws and regulations of the highway.
That's all I ask.