Originally Posted by
no motor?
YMMV as they say as to what makes it a commuter. Some of us even ride our commuter bikes to places other than work, the differences are mainly semantics if your bike gets you to work and back.
Exactly. My road bike serves as a commuter and a longer weekend rider. I use that bike because my commute is long. My utility bike is for around town stuff, and I have commuted with it a couple of times. However the one time I rode it to work in the morning I had a big head wind which made it take nearly 2 hours to go 15 miles, and I had a flat a mile from the office. Then my yellow gravel bike also gets ridden around town and other fun rides. Multiple uses for every different bike.