44-17. There I said it, My favorite gear for commuting.

I now longer have to work so I don't commute any longer but did for many years. (Edit: I stil ride 10 or so miles in town regularly on my old commute route. Still have that hill coming home. A lot of people are used to seeing me in bike clothing.) My average commute over the years has been around 10 miles. Virtually all have had a serious hill coming home. I hate riding in and later wearing sweaty street clothes so I always ride in full riding gear. Been using cleated shoes since 1974 except a few shorted commutes when I had LL Bean Ranger Oxford shoes. (Wish they were still around. Great riding, great walking, great wearing all day. Re-sole-able forever.)

I wear the brightest cycling jerseys and jackets I can get and long backed cycling vests at night. White helmets. Now Segoi armwarmers with the reflecting stripes. In recent years I've added two Planet Bike flashers to the waist band of my vest that sit just in front of my hip bones so they are very visible to drivers pulling a left turn or coming out of a right-side street or driveway. A good headlight. Planet Bike rear flashers on all my bikes. Lots of reflecting tape on my serious winter/rain/city fix gear. Like 10-20 feet. Top, down. head and seat tubes, seat stays and fork blades above the bend. Fenders, LowRiders (Blackburn or otherwise) on both winter/rain/city bikes. a rear rack on my geared one. A full frame pump and the same tool bag and tools all my bikes get - 2 tubes, patch kit, irons, loose allen wrenches for that bike and whatever specialty tools that bike needs. (Don't trust a wheel - spoke wrench, fix gears - 15mm wrench and so on.)

Ben