Tag Archives: Car

Apr
22
2013

Do I look like GoSkippy?

by Skippy

I am not sure why I get people filling in my contact form like this: From: Evangeline Gonzales Subject: cost for additional driver Message Body: Hi, Rick or Chris,i wonder if i can add my husband to my excisting policy with you,how much it will cost me?you have my mobile number or you can send [...]

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Aug
19
2012

Thoughts on a new ‘Car’

by Skippy

With FiFi (my brothers girlfriends old Ford Fiesta) being expensively broken fuel leak (out, air leak in) on the injector side of the top of the engine, and the gear box having lost Fifth and Reverse (push rods are moving at the gearbox end). With estimates for fixing FiFi ranging from £500 to £2k, GLaDOS [...]

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Aug
13
2012

Car Insurance

by Skippy

One of the amusing requirements of driving a car in the UK is car insurance, it is primary use is to provide financial protection against physical damage and/or bodily injury resulting from traffic collisions and against liability that could also arise therefrom. For a while I have been borrowing a small Ford Fiesta called FiFi. And because I [...]

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Jan
24
2012

Trains and Cost – Part 3: Public Investment v Wasteful Subsidy

by Skippy

In 2011 passengers contributed about £6.5bn and taxpayers £4bn a year to the running of the railways (ref). Now I will be the first to admit I don’t like how the Rail Network is set up at current [1, and 2]. However Let us quickly compare the cost and subsidy with the UK road network: Externalities: £48.7 [...]

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Jan
24
2012

Cycling V Motorbike – Thoughts on Other Road Users

by Skippy

Poor lil Steph has put up with me riding her through rain and well less bad weather for about 500 miles now; and I am intrested in the way that I am treated by other vehcials. Cars and Lorrys give you much more respect than they do when you are a cyclist; they seem to [...]

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Jan
18
2012

Transport for London’s Please Take Care…

by Skippy

I got the following email off of Transport for London’s Ben Plowden: Dear Skippy, I am writing to both cyclists and drivers to remind them to take care on London’s roads. Cyclists are reminded to: Be aware of blind spots all around large vehicles. It’s often safer to hang back Make eye contact with drivers [...]

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Nov
14
2011

Long Live the Pony

by Skippy

With its MOT due, and Tax getting close to running out; the Pony was sent to car heaven, or hell; or better yet being a Pagan’s car reincarnation by my cheapest estimates the car would have needed £600+ of work to keep her on the road, Plus MOT and Vehicle excise Duty (not Car or [...]

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Aug
21
2011

Social and Anti-Social Transport

by Skippy

Last night I went to see Andi, Maddy, and Storm, for our semi regulare dose of two hot men, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. This was not really that well planed (Maddy and I aranged it on Wednesday). The journey from Culham to Cheltenham and back is about 100 miles; the using the AA list [...]

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