Originally Posted by
acidfast7
this forum is too full of waste, so...
what do you enjoy about commuting by bike?
What do you mean by that?
Anyways, I recently replied to this thread on the Living Car-Free Forum,
“Show Us Your Current Current Commute/Errand Routes”:
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
…Humbly, if Bike Forums ever had a Best Commute Award, I would be a frontrunner…
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways":
- I have a direct one-way 14 mile ride outbound from downtown Boston to a suburb through varied pleasant residential and light commercial streets (pleasant urban; pleasant suburban; ritzy suburban; and gritty, but safe and interesting urban neighborhoods). IMO, 10 miles is a minimum distance for exercise benefit.
- I don’t punch a clock, so I can come to work at my own time, within reason, so I commute very early in the AM, and can start working immediately on arrival.
- For training purposes I can extend my commute through additional nice routes including premier cycling suburbs, such as Dover and Sherborn.
- Major roads on my route are expeditiously plowed in the winter.
- I can take my bike on a Commuter Rail about 1.5 miles from my home, and about 500 yards from my workplace.
- At my workplace I can keep my bike indoors with plenty of space to hang my clothes including use of a floor fan to dry off.
- My workplace has showers, a cafeteria, coffee shop, and a place to sleep if I decide to stay overnight. I can use WiFi , or post the to the Internet for diversion if I do.
- Most of my work day is spent in hospital scrubs, so I don’t have to clean up too much, or keep a lot of clean clothes on site.
- Almost all my personal service needs like barber shop, dentist, dry-cleaner/tailor, supermarket, drugstore, good take-out restaurants and a bike shop are all within walking distance of my workplace, or a short hop on the bike
- I'm a well-known cyclist, and get a lot of respect for that.
The only downside I can think of is that my job is so time-consuming that I can’t ride as much as I like to..
I’m a decades-long, year-round cycle commuter, and I have read this Forum for about six years. I posted the above to demonstrate a near-perfect situation with solutions to many of the repeated threads on this Forum about common problems for cycling commuters. FWIW.