I've been on this forum for several years, and I've noticed a trend.

This is the commuting forum. Commuting is generally defined to be the act of travelling from one's residence to one's place of work or study. So, when you ride your bike to work or school---that's "bike commuting".

When you ride your bike to do your shopping, that's not commuting. That's running an errand.


Riding to the Obama inauguration, a wedding, or a friend's house is not commuting. It may be still considered running an errand, but it's not commuting. After all, if we drove to those places we wouldn't call it car commuting. Driving to work or school is car commuting, though. So is taking mass transit.

So would it kill people to post threads like "Riding your bike to X location" instead of "Bike commute to X location"? That is a more accurate description of the act.

I like riding my bike, but there's no need to label every single ride. Sometimes a ride is just a ride.