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)

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.

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

=

This:

> Im working up to this:

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

hhp

> Im working up to this:

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

hhp

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.)

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

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

today, northern line > victoria and walk..

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 :-)

"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.

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

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

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:

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.

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.

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

heh

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

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.

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

heh

they could always be taller... :P