What does your bike say about your personality?

[Dave]

Originally Posted by karl_1052

If it is what I think it is, there are companies setup in cities that own a fleet of small cars. You pay a monthly fee, and then you find out where the car is(by GPS), go to it with a swipe card and use it for as long as you want. Of course there are tons of rules, and I don't think I would want to get a car after some ass munch drove his buddies home from the bar, and 3 of them puked all over the interior at 3am. Now at 10am, you go and get the car, and the puke hasn't been cleaned up, and it has been baking in the sun for the last 4 hours.

No thanks.

Yeah that's pretty accurate

Originally Posted by Homeslice

One of the services is called zipcar, and it's to their best interest to check on the cars periodically to make sure they're clean. The odds that someone will have puked in the car right before you get it are, shall we say, rather slim.

Zipcar is the devil

[pauldun170]

Friend of mine signed up for one.
she lives in NYC and it makes perfect sense for her.

She uses public transportation to get to work. She can walk to get her groceries and do laundry. She's lived in the states for 12 years and never had a car. She just got her drivers license a few months ago. To buy a car and insure it is not worth the monet in her case as she has no real need for a car on a daily basis. However there are a few time a year when she likes the convenience such as coming out to visit us and not worry about train schedules, or when she wants to do some hardcore shopping. She signed up for zip (or whatever service it is) car.
Beats pissing away money on car insurance and car payments for something that she doesn't really need.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

Friend of mine signed up for one.
she lives in NYC and it makes perfect sense for her.

She uses public transportation to get to work. She can walk to get her groceries and do laundry. She's lived in the states for 12 years and never had a car. She just got her drivers license a few months ago. To buy a car and insure it is not worth the monet in her case as she has no real need for a car on a daily basis. However there are a few time a year when she likes the convenience such as coming out to visit us and not worry about train schedules, or when she wants to do some hardcore shopping. She signed up for zip (or whatever service it is) car.
Beats pissing away money on car insurance and car payments for something that she doesn't really need.

100% truth. And this isn't limited to poor people......There are a few people at my company who pull down some decent money yet don't own a car. Even if you have a nice "secure" parking structure where you live, shit gets stolen out of those all the time. It's not worth having a nice car, especially if you're only going to put 3-4K miles a year on it.

[Tsunami]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

100% truth. And this isn't limited to poor people......There are a few people at my company who pull down some decent money yet don't own a car. Even if you have a nice "secure" parking structure where you live, shit gets stolen out of those all the time. It's not worth having a nice car, especially if you're only going to put 3-4K miles a year on it.

True esp when you live in the city and there is no parking anyway. Or to park you are paying $500 for a space 3-4 blocks from your home. Which is a reason why I lived in the boroughs, I like driving and parking my car outside my door.