Car free at home only

[Domromer]

I put up a post yesterday mentioning that due to an auto accident I am going to be car free from now on. Which was half true. I drive a truck for a living . So I'll always have access to a vehicle when I need to get a big load from Costco or some other large stuff that wouldn't be very fun to carry on the bike. I was wondering if there are others in the car free section who don't have a personal car but do have one for work. Which they can use when a need arises, do you still consider your self car free?

[evblazer]

My wife rides her bike to work and to the store but has a town vehicle which she drives for work. She is also required to have the truck with her anywhere she goes while on call so we could do big shopping trips then I guess.
If that was our only access to a vehicle I think we could manage to say we were car free or maybe very car-lite. Most people would consider us carless and it would be hard to say the truck is our car since we only use it when required.

[Roody]

There's a purist definition of carfree: You don't own a motor vehicle, and you never use a motor vehicle for personal transportation--including company car, rental car, loaner, carpooling, etc.

On this forum a looser definition seems to be more accepted: You don't own a motor vehicle that is used for personal transportation, but you might borrow, rent, carpool or bum rides. Also you might own a motor vehicle that's used strictly for business but not for personal transport.

I guess my opinion is that if you own a company motor vehicle and occasionally use it for personal transportation, you're carlite rather than carfree. But that's just me! :)

[gwd]

I think most people don't care as long as we know where you're coming from and that you post in good faith. When we know you use a company truck for heavy loads we know how to evaluate you're advice on carrying large loads on the bike. Not that the results of load carrying experiments aren't interesting no matter where they come from.

[truepeacenik]

dang. I have to sign the car I don't use over to the spouse?
I know all the insurance is for him.

[cerewa]

Car free at home only

Is that kind of like "i'm a vegetarian between meals"?

From the thread title, it looked like a troll post about how you're always car-free (in the sense of not using a car) while inside your home.

[Newspaperguy]

I know one person who is almost entirely car free. He might use just a few tanks of gasoline in a year. The irony is he drives a truck for a fuel company. It would be a small step for him to become entirely car free in his personal life, but he makes his living supplying fuel for those who are not car free.

[pj7]

I put up a post yesterday mentioning that due to an auto accident I am going to be car free from now on. Which was half true. I drive a truck for a living . So I'll always have access to a vehicle when I need to get a big load from Costco or some other large stuff that wouldn't be very fun to carry on the bike. I was wondering if there are others in the car free section who don't have a personal car but do have one for work. Which they can use when a need arises, do you still consider your self car free?
I'm car free, but I own a jeep scrambler (mud crawler) and am set to inherit an old pickup truck from a friend of mine.
I'm still carfree though because I don't plan on driving the pickup and the jeep...well, I'd get pulled over within 30 seconds of hitting the street in it.
But in your case, it's less of a deal from the pedant point of "am I car free or not". Where I work I have access to every type of machinery known to mankind (exaggeration of course) but we have lasers, mills, presses, welders, etc etc. The shop is open 24-hrs/7-days and us employees have free access to the machinery for our own personal use. Given that, I'm still "Laser equipped Robot" free, even though I program one and can use it to cut my arm off if I wish. :D

[Newspaperguy]

The scenario is not really any different from that of an Amish or Old Order Mennonite who shuns modern conveniences such as electricity, plumbing, telephones and the like but works at a dairy factory where there is electricity, plumbing and telephone service in place. In order to make this situation work, it is necessary to separate the working environment from the home living environment.

[bmclaughlin807]

Where I work I have access to every type of machinery known to mankind (exaggeration of course) but we have lasers, mills, presses, welders, etc etc. The shop is open 24-hrs/7-days and us employees have free access to the machinery for our own personal use. Given that, I'm still "Laser equipped Robot" free, even though I program one and can use it to cut my arm off if I wish. :D

:drool: Wow. Just think of the stuff I could do.... :eek: I could make my own bike parts! :D I'd have SO much fun!

[javna_golina]

Does anyone have a company vehicle that they keep parked at work, and bike home?

[Domromer]

Thats how I do it. Although I usually walk to work. It's a mile and a half so a nice walk or a very short ride.

[pj7]

:drool: Wow. Just think of the stuff I could do.... :eek: I could make my own bike parts! :D I'd have SO much fun!
I have made bike parts before.
Let's see.... I've:
- laser cut new disc brake rotors.
- lathed a "too large" seatpost down to size.
- laser cut a spacer to fit a 7sp casette on an 8-9sp freehub body.
- welded my bike frame when I cracked it, twice.
- added braz-ons.
- made a new stancion for my rack to fit around the disc brakes.
... and a few other odds and end type things.

Being an automotive company it's kinda fun to use our tooling for bike stuff.

[Newspaperguy]

Does anyone have a company vehicle that they keep parked at work, and bike home?

I keep my personal vehicle parked at work and I bike back and forth. I'll use my car for purely personal use just a few times in a year. The rest of the time, I'm using it for work purposes.