I'm impressed with this forum. 1 they like bicycles 2 they can read 3 they get up early (mostly). I share a house with a couple of people that are extremely lazy, and it is really nice to get an impression of a different possibility. I start my commute at 5:30 am if it is a m-f shift, 6:30 if it is on a weekend. It's about 5 and a half miles and I have a really nice long downhill stretch on the way in and don't even work up a sweat, and I have made it in 14 minutes on my old 10 or 12 speed. Have breakfast at work and put on a full pot of coffee. (No one else is going to get any of that.)

I get my exercise on the way home when time isn't at all a problem, and it is just about the most perfect possible commute.