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| Thread ID: 90596 | 2008-06-09 04:48:00 | Buying a scooter as a cost cutter good or not good idea? | Morpheus1 (186) | PC World Chat |
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| 676734 | 2008-06-12 12:11:00 | logging trucks powering up my behind. Do you find this painful? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 676735 | 2008-06-12 20:45:00 | Well if you don't have to far to go perhaps you could do two things at once and work only as hard as you want too..... http://www.electricbikes.co.nz/ Good idea. Those are bicycles with an electric motor added, all up cost $2000+. 40 kph tops but you do have to pedal even if 'lightly'. BTW they have a nice web site. When I was in Cambodia seeing the Angkor temples, I hired several electric scooter bikes. It was not a bicycle with a motor added, and it did not look like the scooters that we see these days, nor was it a motorcycle. It was purpose built, probably European. There were no pedals. Top speed was around 40 kph, like the speed a quick bicyclist commuter could do, but in that heat I would not have been able to go that fast for very long unless I was young and very fit. I have a friend near Whangarei that has an electric scooter bike, similar to the ones I hired in Cambodia. He swears by it and says many people ask him about it. Guess you could say its a Head Turner, which would annoy the young guys with fast loud RR motorcycles, LOL. :confused: I wonder why electric scooters are not more common here? Quiet, cheap to run, no petrol mess, no exhaust. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 676736 | 2008-06-12 21:58:00 | Do you find this painful? In a car, no. With my behind exposed to the elements, I bet it would be.:D |
pctek (84) | ||
| 676737 | 2008-06-13 22:45:00 | In a car, no. With my behind exposed to the elements, I bet it would be.:D :D Thats what leather pants are for... |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 676738 | 2008-06-16 10:04:00 | I drive a 2005 Holden Acclaim (V6) for work and business. I live and work around the Manukau area and it costs about $120 per week in petrol and thats if I drive mostly around Manukau. Too many trips to Auckland city, West Auckland and the odd one out of Auckland for business = $200+ petrol cost per week...real easy. Haven't even started with servicing costs, registration and insurance. As a former motorcycle enthusiast (who used to scoff at scooter-riders:) ) the scooter option is starting to look attractive (especially with petrol heading well north of $2.10/litre)... seriously. | Mugly2000 (13850) | ||
| 676739 | 2008-06-16 11:07:00 | Clip, clop, clip, clop, hear that sound? You will do quite soon I should think. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 676740 | 2008-06-16 11:36:00 | In the not too-distant future we will look wistfully back to the days when fuel was only $2.00 a litre. I feel sorry for young people to whom these are going to be the"good old days". |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 676741 | 2008-06-16 12:08:00 | Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol: www.timesonline.co.uk |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 676742 | 2008-06-16 16:02:00 | A scooter in the middle of winter? You must be making funnies! Come to think of it. A scooter at any time of the year. YUK! If petrol is too dear for you, try eating less and what you save on food will pay for the petrol. And this business of dressiing up just to travet a few miles. It's too funny for words. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 676743 | 2008-06-16 17:15:00 | Spam? It'll be gone 2 minutes after Jen wakes up |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
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