I remember from my year in michigan how horrid the cars were if they
were more than 10 years old.
On 5/7/08, Jason Bleazard <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 12:51 am, Dustin Williams said:
> >
> > If you cut out the four
> > months of snow, that would leave 8 months of riding time.
>
> Sorry, you didn't really deserve such a snarky response. I wasn't having a
> good day on Monday.
>
> So, motorcycles... I've already considered the idea, years ago. I concluded
> that me, on a motorcycle, in metro Toronto traffic, is a Bad Idea. Do you
> know anyone who is so uncoordinated and accident prone that they generally
> shouldn't be allowed to do moderately dangerous things like ride a
> motorcycle
> in traffic, or use power tools, or run with scissors? Yeah, that's me.
> Between the suicidal nature of the whole notion, and the expense of the bike
> plus all the gear plus the riding course plus insurance plus storage plus
> who
> knows what else, I don't think it would save enough during the six months of
> riding time to be worthwhile.
>
> > do you and your wife actually need to have two pickups?
>
> Nope. Absolutely not. That's why I was shopping for cars in the first
> place.
> If I could afford to plunk down $10,000 or so on a vehicle, I'd do it in a
> heartbeat. Unfortunately the only thing I can find in my dirt-cheap price
> range is a bunch of 15-year-old rustbuckets. Given a choice between my own
> rustbucket and someone else's, I think I'll stick with the one I know for as
> long as possible, or at least until I can dig us out from underneath the
> crushing weight of credit card debt.
>
> Not looking for sympathy or anything, just trying to describe the problem
> I'm
> working on resolving.
>
> --
> Jason Bleazard http://drazaelb.blogspot.com Burlington, Ontario
> his: '95 Dakota Sport 4x4, 3.9 V6, 5spd, Reg. Cab, white
> hers: '01 Dakota Sport 4x4, 4.7 V8, Auto, Quad Cab, black
>
>
>
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