how often do you go biking compared to other duties?! If you use it once a week to carry a bike and two weeks in summer surely its an over-compromise of epic proportions?
That was my issue about buying a van or van-based vehicle. Luckily, my wife’s now keen on MTBing so it became a more viable ideam, but more importantly suggested the idea of a van to convert to a full-blown camper. We bought a used VW T5 van last year, ideal for chucking the bikes in for rides.
I use it at twice a week or more for biking and have several weekends away planned (plus there’ll be the unplanned on-impulse ones), plus a 3-week Euro tour, but even at that I sometimes wonder if it’s worth having a van (both the wife and me run our own cars too – hers is a banger, mine’s a fun/hairdresser car). When we add up what a camper will cost us to convert and own, we might’ve been better just hiring a camper van on the occasions we wanted to use one. But then my nearest camper hire place is a 1.5hr journey each-way away, and there’s a lot to be said for the convenience of having your own! I also can’t carry a bike in my own car for instance, although that was my stupid choice…