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Originally Posted by americanlt2 (Post 13973483)

It's a Honda & is very cheap to maintain. Gas is getting expensive but so is biking. I recently had to replace my back rim, chain and derailer. I'm constantly having too buy more inner tubes, bike lube, Gatorade ect...I even have to pay for more food. My car get about 32mpg. I enjoy biking but I don't think it's as cheap as some of you make it out to be.

Ive been making that argument for a while. I have more tied up in bikes then I paid for BOTH my cars (86 4cyl 4Runner and a 96 Previa) and the cars have tires that go 50,000 miles a set. LOL

I sold my Suburban a couple years back. 40gallon tank and a 454 under the hood, It was painful to fill. I saw it rattle past $100 a couple times. It was way over kill for our needs (Light weight Airstream camper and I sold the 4x4 I pulled with it). Thankfully 7 years ago I changed positions with my company and took a job 4.3 miles from home. That was a HUGE savings over the 44 mile round trip I had been making. 1.5 years ago my office moved...I'm pissed! It moved 2 miles closer and I lost a lot of my exercise :lol:

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Originally Posted by Roody (Post 13991716)

It's interesting to look at gas prices adjusted for inflation. Through much of the 20th century, they hovered around $2.50 in todays dollars. In 1962, when MacDonald hamburgers were 90 cents (adjusted for inflation), gasoline cost about $2.40 a gallon. The highest prices were in 1981--$3.81. The lowest prices were less than $1.50, in 1999.

http://inflationdata.com/inflation/i...tion_chart.htm

I remember the tirade my old man went into when gas hit 50cents a gallon in the 70's. We did a lot of camping. we had lite pop up camper that we pulled with a VW Station wagon. We were on our way to Colorado from Troy MI and some where in Illinois and we drove on fumes trying to find a place under 50cents a gallon. My old man pitched a fit for the next 100 miles.

Keeping my wife's car. She has a '00 Mustang GT. Friday night gas fill ups are crazy. All the pumps were taken, so the pumping rate was slow. I waiting 15-20 to fill up her car (she waits until the low fuel light comes on). I filled it up and it was almost $60 for 13.5 gallons. Not as expensive as a truck, but still crazy. She drives hard too, so she doesn't get the best mpg. All I know is I prefer a bike to a car any day. No oil to change, no computers to run diagnostics, etc.

Next car I get will be a 4-banger used econobox to get me from A to B when the bike can't be used.