I cannot get to my work locations without a car. It is a requirement.
Regardless of it being a necessity I no longer enjoy them. I still enjoy riding my bicycle however and that is a large part of my reasoning behind having a nice roadie with di2, disc brakes, tubeless tyres, CF wheels and frame. I enjoy spending time on it. I’d rather spend a bit more on something I enjoy and less on something that is a utilitarian requirement.
What part of owning a car is the requirement?
I work on what is considered a remote site with no public transport. But I still don’t need a car as I can get there with a motorcycle.
When I’m on call-out they now require me to leave my MC at work and take the work vehicle home. They say I’m not allowed to ride it for business use as no 2 wheeled vehicles allowed. Call-out is deemed business use. I also can’t use a car unless it is under 10 years old with a 5 star safety rating.
The restrictions are inconvenient at best. 
Mate, I am travelling over 100km at times on rural roads in the early morning and after sunset. I have upgraded headlights and lightbar. The risk of roo-strike is very real, inded I have hit roos twice. No damage on the Patrol but the Swift would now be written off if it happened again. I can tell you I see no motorcycles doing similar after dark on my journeys, however, you do you, I will do me. 
My assessment based on the conditions, I am driving in, is that from a safety perspective, a car is required. Morever it is cold and wet to go with the dark not infrequently. I have no desire to risk roo strike whilst also arriving cold and wet.
Indeed, Bendigo would be rife with Roos possible more so than here in Albury, I’ve even seen them on my front lawn, big buggers too!! At the end of our street are paddocks with a huge Kangaroo population.
I have a motorcycle as well and apart from maybe using it a couple of time in town at night, it only comes out in the daylight hours.
Fair enough. I didn’t know the circumstances or regulations, that’s why I asked. I’ve hit a wallaby’s tail at night on the MC. It’s only a 50 zone and we only have wallabys on the northern beaches suburbs that I’ve seen anyway. If I was doing 100 at night on rural roads everywhere, I’d probably be driving an old large car. Horses for courses as they say. 
A big car would be better true. I may end up with my wifes Tucson at some stage. The Patrol is too thirsty. The Swift is not built for the highway, noisy and firm ride/short travel suspension.
I have put Stedi LED globes in the headlights and fog lights plus the light bar and know which roads to avoid for foilage close to the road. It is passable for now.
We don’t have a dedicated EV vehicle thread that I know of, so I’ll post this here.
I should probably carry over some of my car related adventures onto here - I’m sure a few of the Bicycle Network guys are wondering what happened to them.
Anyway the garage is still as previous - 1988 MR2, 1973 Mini Panelvan, 1979 Valiant, and IONIQ5N.
Those of you who remember the ‘seemingly minor damage to the IONIQ caused by someone doing a u-turn into it’ can be updated with the fact that it took my insurance company some 10 weeks to work out that it was apparently going to cost $150k to repair. And 3 and half months to deliver me a new one under the ‘new for old’ policy. So my orange IONIQ5N is now a blue IONIQ5N and I have a new insurer.
The Valiant remains ‘almost finished’ and would have been this week except we found some of the front suspension was installed wrongly at the wheel alignment. I’m hoping for roadworthy next week which is about a month short of 12 years off the road.
The interior came up alright at least!
