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I'm not allowed to disclose my job at the moment due to a company-confidential project I'm working on. Trust me, it's nowhere near as interesting as it sounds on the back of this, it's just fairly standard IT consultancy. Basically it amounts to, a small number of people with the skills to do it and both the people doing it and the clients being scattered all over the place. It's not as simple as having the workers nearest the client go to those jobs. One particular skill for example, I know of only 4 other people amongst those who do this job, so obviously the job dictates where you go. There are other people with this limited skill in the marketplace sure, but not with the same necessary core skills as me and the other 60-100 people. I know my situation is a bit of an extreme case, but even during the middle of a weekday, I regularly encounter jammed motorways. I can't believe all these people are going on holiday or retired or that they are choosing to do this for fun. When I stop at services, most of them are wearing suits and probably do similarly specialist work in other fields. As I say, I don't pay for fuel so it doesn't really bother me, it's my employers that it costs. I'm also sorry that I disagree with the notion everyone can car share. I tried it for a bit in my old job (I am actually a lot more "green" up to the point where it becomes unworkable, than my posts would suggest), but it didn't work. There was only one other guy who lived anywhere near my house. He was up for car sharing, but nice a chap as he was, was really unreliable, would often go in late and then want to work late to make up for it, etc. I'd often end up sitting around kicking my heels stranded at work waiting for him to finish, or if I was the driver, hanging around outside his office waiting for him to finish. I'm not talking 5-10 minutes, I mean 30-45 minutes, regulary. It soon became apparent that the cash saved wasn't offsetting the aggro so we called it off. |
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"Again, comparing a bike to a toyota prius hybrid FFS. That's hardly fair." They compared it with a bike for sensationalism as there was a perception of bikes being green (when in reality most modern ones are not much different to normal cars in terms of pollution out the exhaust, although this is offset by less fuel being burned). If they compared a normal car with a hybrid they'd have had similar results. Why didn't they compare an electric bike with the prius? "Why haven't you got an electric bike if there are ones on the market?" Inital cost is high (about £2.5K over a petrol one) and even I don't do the miles to recoup that cost through saved petrol costs (and I don't pay for fuel, so I'd be footing the cost for no benefit, save the environmental one). People who use bikes solely as weekend toys certainly wouldn't. At the moment they are only really any good for dirt bikes, due to limited tank range. Basically you can either have 50mph for 100 miles, or 100mph for 50 miles. Seeing as I regulary do 400 mile round trips (and occassionally 900 miles ones), they currently lack the range needed. It'll improve as battery technology invariably improves. Speciality: I'm pretty competent home mechanic, I do all my own servicing and can fix 90%+ of the stuff on my bike myself. Even so, I like knowing that I can take it to a dealer for really tricky stuff, or if I can't fix it. This means having to have a dealer who knows electric bikes. In time, this will change, but at the moment, unless you live in London, you will probably be miles away from one. They're also quite dangerous given the lack of noise, so people and cars regularly chuck themselves in front of your front wheel. On the plus side, no need for a licence/insurance on electric vehicles on UK roads at the moment (legacy law from mobility scooters)! |
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Anyway, this is supposed to be pics of bikes. This is my mate's bike, same sort as mine, but prepped for track use, rather than hacking the length and breadth of the country. Schwing! |
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somebody post the tiny head pic. |
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wow, this is what i call... "an essential topic" |
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