Originally Posted by
Strawbunyan
I have a lightly hilled 5 mile ride to work, 10 mile round trip. I am about to start cycling it for fitness and to save miles in the car. Do i need to worry much about the type of bike i get?I was born innthe 80s and I did BMX as a teenager..poorly, but i did it, that is all of my cycling expetience. am i over thinking such a short commute?
If you don't have experience of the bike ride on the regular road, be worry mostly about a cars on road near of you . Some road more safe especially in good neighborhood area, but some too danger related to bad people on the track, etc. in the not good neighborhood / road direction to not good part of the city / metro. I spend a lot of time in every city where I lived drive the car and looking for best road before start of commuting by bike to put my line on the map. Safety was priority to me all the time with this process.