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I've recently started a postgraduate course at uni and have been forced, due to no student loan, to reassess my financial outgoings. After dropping gym membership in favour of the uni gym, lowering mobile phone tariff etc. I decided to pay for my car insurance in one go rather than monthly saving on the interest and meaning I won't have to find the cash for it if things get strapped towards the end of the academic year.
However, I'm now wondering whether it would be just better to park the car on my parents drive for the foreseeable future and just use my road bike to get about. I spend sunday evening- thursday afternoon at uni and work the weekends 30 miles away at home, so i'm thinking of riding home on a thursday and train back to uni on a sunday.
What I really want to know is whether anyone else has got rid of a car to use their bike full time and specifically if you did it at this time of year with winter approaching I'd particularly like to hear your thoughts.
Cheers
I'd be wary of just parkign a car up SORN for long periods - it'll still deteriorate and lose value.
If you park it up for a month and haven't needed/wanted to use it then I'd look to sell it and buy again when the time comes?
hmm tough one, I got rid of my car so we only had one car in the family. I use my cargo bike as much as poss, but I still default to the missus car often and it pisses off my mates when they have to pick me up all the time if I cant use hers...
Having a car was the exception when I was at Uni, maybe five or six folk had one from our class of eighty. Few mature students in there too. Bike and National Express was how we did it. In the 16 room digs I lived in for two years there was one car owner.