I literally said the math will change to favour the bike if you include fuel?
Oil change was included in that figure and insurance costs next to nothing if you’re getting liability only (and you can’t really get full coverage on a 30 year old car).
Think over the 4 years I owned that car, I spent a total of 200 euros or less on maintenance and repairs since it sat for the better part of the last 3 years I owned it.
Most of the rest of my cars haven’t been this cheap to maintain, but then again they’ve also done a lot of mileage for me.
My point is that bikes are so much cheaper to maintain in the long run that even if you were doing the same miles, it would come out far cheaper. Just because you have a car that has been cheap to maintain, doesn’t change the simple math of that problem. The average price of bringing your car to the shop once could buy you multiple used bikes from garage sales.
I’ve only ever taken any of my cars to the shop twice or thrice over the years I believe. All the rest of my repairs have been done at home.
If I did 15000 km a year on a bicycle, that would be literally hell for that bicycle. I need new pedals every 500-1000 km because I exert too much force and I can’t be arsed to downshift every time I accelerate. Plastics break, metal ones bend. The crank bearing or whatever it’s called in English doesn’t tend to last too long either. I’m not much easier on my cars either, but they’re built to take it.
I literally said the math will change to favour the bike if you include fuel?
Oil change was included in that figure and insurance costs next to nothing if you’re getting liability only (and you can’t really get full coverage on a 30 year old car).
Think over the 4 years I owned that car, I spent a total of 200 euros or less on maintenance and repairs since it sat for the better part of the last 3 years I owned it.
Most of the rest of my cars haven’t been this cheap to maintain, but then again they’ve also done a lot of mileage for me.
My point is that bikes are so much cheaper to maintain in the long run that even if you were doing the same miles, it would come out far cheaper. Just because you have a car that has been cheap to maintain, doesn’t change the simple math of that problem. The average price of bringing your car to the shop once could buy you multiple used bikes from garage sales.
I’ve only ever taken any of my cars to the shop twice or thrice over the years I believe. All the rest of my repairs have been done at home.
If I did 15000 km a year on a bicycle, that would be literally hell for that bicycle. I need new pedals every 500-1000 km because I exert too much force and I can’t be arsed to downshift every time I accelerate. Plastics break, metal ones bend. The crank bearing or whatever it’s called in English doesn’t tend to last too long either. I’m not much easier on my cars either, but they’re built to take it.