Originally Posted by
swwhite
For commuting to work, my general guidelines would be to walk 0 to 2 miles, bike 2 to 5 miles, bus or drive over 5. In actual practice, I bike to work six miles because that's where work is and the bike trip is faster than the bus trip, and I bike less than two miles when I am running errands because it's faster.
When my commute was a 9-miler, I would get to work about the same time whether I rode the bike or took the bus. I would only take the bus, though, when surface conditions were too bad for the bike (which I doubt will happen anymore, since I have some Schwalbe Spikers!).
ONE day, it was fun -- I've never been in a bus that went down a road sideways! (icy road....)