The job Im after means driving an hour each morning, and then at night back home...

Thing is, its not motorway driving, so traffic could prove a problem in the mornings But the job is ideal!

Would you?

 

4 minute walk to my work, bt the missus wants to move

means i wold have to buy a car again

 

1 hour is quite a way. but it depends on you. do you like the job that much that you will move, do you like where you live and the job that you will put up with it or look elsewhere.

 

i drive an hour each way to work and back.

it takes about 1.5hours if i dont use motorway, but sometimes go other routes just as motorway is so boring.

ive coped fairly well with it TBH, would be nice not to have to tho

 

Motorbike

 

You dont live near Heathrow and London though

 

= Dead

 

Motorbikes are FILTH

 

Used to drive 1hr each way to work, didnt bother me too much really, but did take the fun out of driving "my" car if u get me

I did it for 4 years, wouldnt do it again soley for commuting tbh

 

only cos you couldn't touch the floor and people wouldn't know if you were wearing your helmet or not

 

I know what the job is mate, Done it before and this is better, at a better place, with my brother again.....

Id be silly not to take it tbh!

 

take it then you cunt

 

7-8 miles from my front door to work car park

 

I have an 8 min drive each way & soo far ive only been there 2 days !!!

My old job would take from 45 mins to 2 hours i was relying on the merci of the m25 but the job paid well

If the job is what you want then the drive will be worth it

 

2.3miles to my work

Literally 3mins in the car, 15min walk. Handy as fuck

 

11 miles to work for me, takes about 20 mins.
Fuck driving an hour

 

I'm home based but 3 out of the 5 days I'm in one of our offices. I can travel anywhere between 40mins to 2hours to get to one of our offices. On a rare occasion I go up to Glasgow which if I drive will take 4+ hours.

BUT - I don't have to do an 8 hour day when I get there which really makes the difference and can stay over in hotels.

If I was doing 9-5 for 5days a week then an easy travelling 60-75mins would be OK as I'm used to it. Being stuck in traffic for that time would tip me over the edge so it would have to be 60mins at 50+mph

Plus all my fuel is paid so distance isn't a bother.

 

40 miles there = 45 mins on bike or 2 hours in a car

 

Exactly I work in Slough which is half hour away from my home but my boss has just come up with the brainwave that Langley is 5 minutes away (like fuck it is) so it looks like my journey time might be doubling and some You can tell he lives in Lancashire

 

radders get a moped mate, 180 runner and just watch the raod


i used one in the city all day long for over a year and NEVER had a crash that wasnt dont to me trying to wheelie

i used to travel to work a hour a day,,,aint that back TBH,,, infact i was less late than where i work now which is a 15min drive but if im 10 mins late i cant make the time up

hell when i was 15 i used to ride 13 miles to work for my saturday job on a bicycle

oh thinking about it i used to ride to work till i was 21 years old on a bike and never had a crash or accident

though im not allowed anything over a 100cc as ive lost 3 mates and a cousin in bike accidents

 

I had thought of that tbh... Whats the score on licenses though

Can't you drive one on just a CBT? But what cc? I havent a clue

 

50cc on your licence, upto 125 on a cbt and then you do a test and can drive a gilera 180,,,,, fucking monsters i tell thee !!!

when i was 14 driving a few billy wizz,,, that felt fast,,,,,,,, a 180 runner or a dna,,,,,, fucking hell

just watch the road though

oh my old work bike was a peugeot speedfight 100,, that done 70mph around the westend at times

a DNA aint got the best turning circle though but looks like a monster

get one and just be aware of whats round you

hell i went on a bender a few times and drove my bike home,,,, one day i was going though a real shite time with my first kid ect and was on a suicide thing almost and i was wrecked and coked up with no sleep for 2 days and STILL managed to get home ( dont recomend that though)

they piss to drive,,,,, kids of allages can ride em

 

a 125cc would be suited to me... If I ever get a bike license, I'll be brown bread.. I nearly topped myself on a KTM400 Crosser....

 

tbh ive got a few mates who used to have honda nsr's and aprillias, they aint slow machines BUT they got VERY skinny tyres!!!

get a ped,,,, smaller wheels and wider means easier to ride,,,, oh and stay off the white road markings,,, they worse than horse shite

 

 

i probley do more miles than most of the users on here, with shop fitting, traveling is apart of the job, i travel all over the uk, been to most parts of it

 

an hour - i wish work was that close to home.

Rad, current job consists of 5 motorways and getting around the M25 and also around birmingham
just over 200 mile journey and on average a 4 hour drive.

and going back 2 years, my journey to work used to consist of 30 minutes travel to gatwick, followed by a flight to ireland and then traveling thru belfast, which was actually quicker than the job im on at the moment

 

Bollocks!


I've ridden most bike's around and i can say hand on heart that the ped's do not inspire confidence at all

Cos there shit
And someone said you can ride i 50cc on your licence. It depend's on when you passed your car test.

For traveling to and from work a bike is a lot better than a car.

I have a 125 that has been clocked at 122 mph

If you want a 125 on a cbt go for an aprillia or cagiva you'll get bored of 4 stroke's in the first week.

Take the restriction off and you'll see with a bit of fettling 115+mph

 

mrjenrst What model of Aprillia ?


Kelv - Current job, 2 hours away....

 

This? Its an Aprilia RS 125cc? Looks alright

 

Yeah mate

I've ridden that and the cagiva mito and the mito is a smaller ducati 998

That's why i bought one

I've got a kwak ninja and it just is not the same smile per mile as a 2 stroke

 

Is that a twist and go?! As you can tell I know loads

 

No mate it's a geared bike.
Tbh rev and go are shit.
It is proper good fun on the bike's
Gears are the only way on bike's

 

Gears- thats how I nearly topped myself on a KTM 400

 

Mate i could show you how in about an hour how to do it!
I have alway's felt more confident on a bike than been in a car not ball's out speed but round town.
Imho bike's are easyer than car's to learn.
When your on a bike you seem to see danger's that are not really there yet. Where as when your in a car you wait for it to happen.

I'll take you out and show you gears anytime mate

 

Where you from??

 

Radders

KTM400
When i get my clutch done on my CR250 come have a play on the track your soon learn the gears

 

Takes about 40 minutes for me.Sometimes an hour on the way home.

When i buy my new house it will be about 15 minutes away

But knowing my luck, we will start a big job near my old house

 

i have to suffer a whole 4 minute drive to work

sufer because it's cold and the van doesn't heat up propelry for at least 6 minutes