I'd like to ask a few questions about getting a bike, for the past year or so I've been planning on buying a bike .. cheap to maintain, cheap to insure and all the girls go wild when you take your helmet off (just kidding
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Thing is, I'm starting university and I'll be commuting. Didn't really want to move into halls and pay £6000 a year. I live in central London, no point moving to an area that's tougher than mine. My uni is about 7.5 miles away from home, by transportation it would take about 30-40 minutes which is a lot considering the distance. Cars, I'm sane .. never gonna pay £4000 per year for insurance.
Other than the fact that I've always wanted a bike and that I would use it to commute, how good/bad of an idea is this? Oyster would cost me a good £100 a month for terrible, smelly, slow public transportation.
I'm 18, which is another issue .. no point getting a 125 and selling it less than a year later. So I might as well wait, do my tests and get anything restricted for 46.6 bhp.
But other than that, has anyone tried this? anyone experienced commuting to university on a bike?
sorry for the long post, but thanks in advance!