Sold my 'summer' car because of my bike...

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gsus · #1 Post by **gsus** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:53 pm

It seems that my bike took a lot of the fun out of my summer car, 91 Toyota MR2... So much so, that I just sold it today- and now I'm in search for a more practical daily driver/bad weather car (thinking of a VW GTI), for when I'm not or cannot be on the bike. Am I alone? Or did some of you find a way to keep both (car & bike) just as fun?

JC Viper · #2 Post by **JC Viper** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:24 pm

I'm lucky to have decent public transit for those winter messes that are un-rideable. That being said I do have a car that's shared between me and my bro and I used to have a daily driver Celica but I'm converting it into a street legal Rally car.

I'd rather take the bike, parking is a pain in the butt here which means my bro can have the car 95% of the time. All I ever use it for is late night drive thru...

CamSA · #3 Post by **CamSA** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:51 pm

I keep an old BMW 316 as my winter car and ride around, driving 30 km on the freeway here takes you an hour and a half its so congested. My KDX is fitted for on road so instead of using the cruisher daily, I use the KDX at least I can mount a pavement which is necessary when or local taxis decide to make a 2 lane a 4 lane road (which is every day) at peak hour tracffic

Gummiente · #4 Post by **Gummiente** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:17 am

CamSA wrote:I keep an old BMW 316 as my winter car

Pardon my ignorance of your country, but... winter?... in South Africa?

Johnj · #5 Post by **Johnj** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:56 am

They have four seasons down under. Their winter is our summer and so on. It's spring in South Africa.

tymanthius · #6 Post by **tymanthius** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:01 am

Remember, SOUTH Africa moves well away from the equator. It's more akin to Central US than Southern.

Look at a globe & it makes sense. Or an Aussie map of the world (AU is center).

Edit: I wasn't looking at a globe, so I guessed wrong. Sorry. That, and I'm bad at geography.

Gummiente · #7 Post by **Gummiente** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:04 am

Thanks for the lesson, boys, but my remark was made tongue in cheek. Winter to a Canadian means lots of snow and cold, cold weather... winter in South Africa can't possibly mean skiiing and frost bite, yes?

king robb · #8 Post by **king robb** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:29 am

being the same distance from the equator as south texas, I am thinking not.

RockBottom · #9 Post by **RockBottom** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:03 am

Gummiente wrote:
CamSA wrote:I keep an old BMW 316 as my winter car
Pardon my ignorance of your country, but... winter?... in South Africa?

One of the coldest nights I've spent in my life was in an unheated room at the military base at Saldhana, South Africa.

RockBottom · #10 Post by **RockBottom** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:06 am

Gummiente wrote:Thanks for the lesson, boys, but my remark was made tongue in cheek. Winter to a Canadian means lots of snow and cold, cold weather... winter in South Africa can't possibly mean skiiing and frost bite, yes?

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