This is how I get to work, mostly:

Oh, this thread looking to be quite fun!

When I'm looking for a meeting and teaching in Paris, most of the time I use my Vespa PX 200 (on the right of the image)

http://www.porchez.com/scooter

When I just need to do a tour in Malakoff or closer part of Paris, I use a bicycle.

For the weekend and holidays, with family, this car (previous version in blue)

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Rather boring but anyhow...

http://transit.metrokc.gov/tops/van-car/vanpool.html

Our vanpool is known as the 'Fresh Crappies' South Seattle vanpool. Name comes from the seasonal hand painted announcements placed outside 'Mutual Fish', on Rainier Ave S.

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David, funny!

I wish LA had [real] public transport. I mean, I love driving a good car, but over here the traffic and cops take all the fun out of it. The buses are unreliable and not cheap, while the metro is just plain ridiculous: you have to be rich to afford it, plus you have to drive to get to a station... The gas lobby just uses public transport to make people like their cars more.

I get around in my old BMW convertible - falling apart, like me. But the best transport -especially in LA with all the traffic and great weather- has gotta be a motorcycle - a Japanese screamer. I had a Yamaha 700, it got stolen.

hhp

Hrant, BMW - wow!!!

[by the way. go to critic area. the tee/tea-bag idea.... see funny thing]



David Hamuel

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I, like most dutch, take the bike. I could walk, but that would mean to be 2 minutes later... I work as in 1 mile from where I live.

This is what I drive after work and in the weekend.

This:

My ride: (this actually my car too, not a stock photo or anything)

http://www.tuscani.be/gallery/index.cfm/gallery_ID/601

http://www.tuscani.be/gallery/index.cfm/gallery_ID/605

http://www.tuscani.be/gallery/index.cfm/gallery_ID/604

Im working up to this:

http://moto.trojmiasto.pl/tapety/ferrari/ferrari_360_modena3.jpg

This is what a friend of mine just had custom made. OMG!

Ok, enough of my car fantasies.

hildebrant.

> Im working up to this:

As long as you get there before you're one of those bald, geriatric Ferrari drivers...

hhp

I have enough (hair) to outfit the hairclub for men until the turn of the century. So, I think that wont be an issue.

hildebrant.

> Im working up to this:

As long as you get there before you're one of those bald, geriatric Ferrari drivers...

hhp

I too hail from the public transportation capital of the world, Manhattan, NY, USA. I love the subways and tolerate the buses, but my favorite way to travel is by my bikes. I make better time in the city on a bike than any other transportation including the subways. Plus New Yorkers walk alot too. Manhattan is a very walkable county in the city of New York.

> the public transportation capital of the world, Manhattan, NY, USA.

Easy, easy.

hhp

I have a 97 Chevy Lumina.

Have to drive EVERYWHERE here. We've got a bus system, but...

http://www.edmunds.com/media/news/whatsnew/01.chevrolet.lumina.350.jpg
http://www.stagers.com/97lumlitebl.JPG

I work at home, so I don't drive that much. I walk whenever I can. But when I need to drive, I drive this:



It's a '94 Dodge Dakota. Not as big as a full-size truck, not as small as a compact. Got it used a few years ago mostly to haul stuff. We like it because it has a little back seat so our 10-year-old daughter has a place to sit if the three of us need to go somewhere in it. (If you want to know how little, ask Stuart Sandler.) We also have a '96 Saturn which my partner uses to get to her job. Not too exciting as vehicles go. If excitement in vehicles is what you want, try this:



(From the Franconia, Minnesota Sculpture Garden.)

This is part my commute from the burbs of Calgary in my Newton-equipped 2002 Volvo 70 XC.

I always wanted a Newton...stupid Apple stopping making them. bah

Roaming slightly off-topic...

> I always wanted a Newton...

The beefy-boy 2100s are still available and priced to move.

http://www.jksalesinc.com/

now. seriously.

i drive Volvo 850 turbo / Honda accord (mostly the Volvo. my wife the Honda)

[and before the Volvo - Toyota. i donated the Toyota. the organization is going to sell the car. and with that money - to help people with food & clothes].


i'll try to post pictures.


David Hamuel

hey Jacques,
we drive exactly the same vehicle on weekends.

today, northern line > victoria and walk..

tomorrow probably the S3.. feeling a bit racy...

thursday definately the A4

my pride and joy for more than 6 years was a 1992 Saab 900 S Aero coupe in le mans blue. sold it to a collector last year *sigh*.

but my family and me are now very happy with this french bonzai-SUV:



for kicks and speed i like to ride my recumbent bike. one of my cousins builds and races these kind of high performance bicycles. we built this one together to match exactely my body size:



notice the logo i designed for my cousin's company :-)

Well folks



This is how I get around. The wife has a lot of baggage.

Gerald Giampa
Lanston Type Company

"Roaming slightly off-topic...

> I always wanted a Newton...

The beefy-boy 2100s are still available and priced to move.

http://www.jksalesinc.com/"

:sigh: I don't have the money. And as much as the newtons were nice, if I'm going to buy a hand held now, it'll be one of the new ones with the colour display, etc.

Simon, I saw one of those bikes the other day. Was with the family at the time, we were all wondering about them. Wondering how comfortable and stable they are, etc.

oh this is the actual one .. last winter... S3's first snow.

oh this is the actual one .. last winter... S3's first snow.

>for kicks and speed I like to ride my recumbent bike

Simon,

That is a great looking recumbent.
That is a very unusual seat with the hump in the lower back area. Can I assume that it flexes into a flatter profile when you are seated on it?

I was on a 850 km one week bike tour this summer with 135 people and there was every configuration of recumbent there. Some very light titanium models with full nylon shrouds, neat.

gln

this is today's slow drive through the Tooting republic..Tooting Bdway.. sorry I forgot to take the sepia setting off the mobile camera (taken with a sony ericsson T610 mobile) and waiting for Paul at Clapham South but sadly Paul is Dead really that man with the dyed red hair is an impostor.
http://60if.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=document

> That is a great looking recumbent.

thanks, gerald. only two like that exist and it took a year to build mine, which was the first of the two.
the frame and seat took up the most time since we didn't have professional tools. the seat does flex a little in the middle part but the hump is actually not as extreme as it may look. oh, and it's more lying down on it than get seated on it. for better aerodynamics :-)

> I was on a 850 km one week bike tour this summer with 135 people
wow, respect! did you get the chance to ride any of those recumbents? if not, you should try it. you may never want to ride a "regular" bike again. i don't!

vince, i like audis too. especially the one they are building in italy (lamborghini gallardo) and the one from the UK (bently continental gt). wouldn't mind a ford from the UK either (aston martin vanquish)! :-)

Remembers me of a book I have at home, in which you have a guys fotos he took while driving through NY. He's a cab driver.

--Jacques

Jacques,

Nice logo.

Gerald Giampa

For a while I was riding this. Then I decided it would be a good idea to ride it to Toronto, and it decided it would be a good idea to break. So for a while I rode this. Then it was hit by a police truck (and they call them Chicago's Finest;-). So I built this and now I spend my days on her:

[excuse the colour balance.. old pictures with an old webcam]

last of the travel photos.
Wimbledon to Brixton... colour photos from a T610 mobile. 1:wimbledon 2: broadway wimbledon, 3: wimbledon centre court, 4: brixton town hall,5: barber coldharbour lane brixton,6: coldharbour lane by the dog star.

SUVs aren't considered antisocial by as many people in the US as they are in Europe, Yves. Of course, when Saudi's oil reserves (the largest in the world) run out in an estimated 11 years time, that may change. Unless, of course, we in the West can somehow secure the 2nd largest oil reserves. Guess where they are! ;)

Why would you want an SUV in Europe? You can drive as fast as you want in Germany, You can go over 90mph regularly without some stupid fat bloke with a gun waiting to make some money for the state, and you can break 115mph on the long trips. You can have lots more fun in Europe in a old Mini than you could ever have in a new SUV in America. I love my old Rover Metro K reg while at uni in Reading and it was great buzzing all over south England from Gillingham to East Anglia, to Richmond to Bournemouth.. etc. SUV are usually driven by mom's, that's why they put mirrors on both side now. In the old day trucks if they had a mirror under the visor it was on the passengers side not both. And that's a fact jack. And we pay a lot more and drive a lot less.

See Vincent's 3rd pic that's where I'm freelancing at the moment. You want a motorbike you do, only blue lights will get you through London faster.

Woah, Vivian...are you sure your shoes are tall enough?

heh

I too have the XTerra, after having owned a Civic. Great for hauling my bicycles to faraway trailheads or getting to the starting lines for races...



2001 XTerra SE, all options, plus Thule bike rack. (Interior: full of dirty cycling clothes, tools, spare parts, moldy Powerbar remnants, etc.)

I'm lucky here in Manhattan I haven't driven a car for over 10 years. Public transportation, subway, walking or one of my three bikes. Dan

Tim nice spotting... No. 3, It's at the bus stop across from Yates.. where the traffic is sent around off Broadway and then back to it in front of the Wimbledon train/tube station.. I missed out Wandsworth but the traffic was bad today.. so I could only take pics when behind a bus or at the corner of Acre lane and Brixton high road. The sepia ones where going another way through Tooting to Clapham.. today it was the posh way to Womble village to Wandsworth etc.

i must admit, i like to drive fast. but i totally agree with you, yves! just a few weeks ago a mother and her little child were forced off the autobahn by a daimler-chrysler test driver racing with another test driver. mother an child died.
having no speed limit on german highways is one reason i traded in my fast saab for the safest car i could afford for my wife and my son.

English = motorway (big) and dual-carriage way (two lanes).
American = highway , freeway , interstate, the Pike, I-*.

> Woah, Vivian...are you sure your shoes are tall enough?

heh

they could always be taller... :P