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Old 02-03-18 | 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by rodtripoli
Hi!

Can my Aura 22 Author road bike handle 100 km a day commute and is it doable for a normal guy to ride 100 km a day to work.

thanks


How are we to know what you're capable of? You are a much better judge of what you can do than we are. So ask yourself are you certain you can do it? If you have to ask probably not.


We have similar commutes, mine is just a little further (close to 80 miles round trip). But you also left out details of your job, so we are left to make assumption based on our own jobs like do you work 8 hr days? Sit in an office or doing hard labor? I work shift, 12hrs, and flip between nights and days. One week in my rotation I work 6 12hr shifts, half are days half nights. The flip is rough and the first night I am often up for over 24hrs since I probably got up at 6 or 7 am to get my son to school, then due to being on days recently I am unable to go back to bed or nap, so I often end up staying up all day and all night. I can barely operate a car good enough to make it home. So the job makes a difference too!


I've debating for a few years to commute to work on bike sometime lol. My idea which I have not tried yet is to get a hotel room for one of my 3- day (or night) stretches and cycle in the first one (or the night before) and then back home after the last one or the day after.
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