I get in my car at one place and out of it at another
How do you get home?
Oops, sorry just realised you wrote "bikes". Well also a road bike with Campag Record, a bling TT bike with DA and a Cannondale tandem (plus a few more). The total cost of which is less than I've saved running s/h cars rather than leasing. I suppose it's possible I've wasted money which might have allowed me to afford both, but I don't think so. In which case for me at least it's a complete no brainer to run slightly older cars (none of which have left me stranded at the side of the road since my first banger over 20 years ago, and I've already mentioned my biggest ever bill) and have a fleet of nice bikes. Clearly other people have different priorities.
I like nice underwear.
[quote=wrecker ]How do you get home?
I can think of a couple of occasions where I've run. Though I note that I don't always drive to or from home and I've also kayaked back to where my car journey started. I'm not sure of the relevance of my personal transport habits though.
[quote=bearnecessities ]I like nice underwear.
TTIWWP
I like nice underwear.
I lease my underwear on a four-monthly basis. Not looking forward to the handover inspection.
Clearly other people have different priorities.
Clearly. I have two nice MTBs and a cheap Giant defy road bike. It's likely that the roady never leave the turbo trainer and I could not care less if it rusts, gets dents or whatever because I don't love it and never will.
[url= http://bikemagic.com/news/bike-leasing-expensive-bikes-cheaper.html ]Lease bike for your lease car ? [/url]
I buy top of the range underwear none of that bland euro rubbish, I get it with the money saved by not buying a new bike for 18 years.
I've even sky dived back to my bike.
Something tells me aracer didn't get Steak for tea last night.
No pudding I reckon 😀
It's an interesting debate. I've always driven bangers and treated RAC membership as additional insurance if I can't dig myself out of trouble. However, work is now moving 20 miles up the motorway and suddenly the idea of driving a 15 year old 205 for three days a week on the M4 doesn't appeal .. don't get a car allowance, what to do?? Lease whilst almost certainly not financially advantageous seems a way to balance a bit of risk out, but I'm struggling with that against a personal loan and buy outright. For context I don't like streaming vs. owning so it's as likely to be about me as the deal itself.
[quote=Drac ]I've even sky dived back to my bike.
Did you drive to where you started the sky dive then?
Did you drive to where you started the sky dive then?
Of course as that's where I left my bike.
[quote=brassneck ]I've always driven bangers and treated RAC membership as additional insurance if I can't dig myself out of trouble.
The funny thing is, some seem to be portraying me as a banger driver, when my last 3 cars have been newish when bought (one from a main dealer), and only one ever got to the point of being a real banger. I've had breakdown cover, but since my first ever car which was all I could afford and I got rid of over 25 years ago I've only used them following prangs (most recently it was me that got pranged - couldn't lift my left foot of the floor when sitting down, so get them to recover me and my fully functional car home).
Had a look at leasing before Xmas, when the mighty Mondeo spluttered its last. Had x amount (about £180/m) to ply the dealers with.
Come away with a year old Focus on a PCP deal, £500 down & a few grand to buy it at the end. Wife happy, her & the kids are in a something modern & safe.
(I cant imagine there are many that aren't safe these days).
I was happy to adopt our ageing Galaxy as my bike bus come caravan hauler etc.
Late 1.9 TDi, no dmf, happy to chug around on short journeys. 🙂
That bike leasing things looks a bit daft when there are so many 0% finance deals around.
I can't wait until I can lease a 3D printer that downloads me a different car every day.
chestrockwell » 1 Series Sport. 12.5k, 9k loan at £170pm.
Replaced with 1 Series M Sport. 2k down then £280pm. It's not on lease, it's PCP with option to buy.aracer
So effectively £340 a month, ie twice what you were paying before.
Thought this thread had died but since it's come back I'm in. How have you come to the conclusion the new one is costing twice what the old one did?
You seem uptight aracer. Maybe you should spend a bit enjoying yourself rather than get so upset that others choose to do so.
Because maths
Go on, entertain me. Are you counting the deposit?
This thread will keep going until everyone on the internet is wrong
You're wrong.
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