Lone commuters.
 

Is there anyone in here that has the feeling they're the only bike commuter in their immediate area?
I feel I am all the time.
But, it's a pretty good feeling, sailing out among the seas of cars all over the road.
I actually feel like I'm dominant over all of them.

I feel alone too but then I leave my home at 5:00 AM. It's different riding back though. :)

You know the weird thing? Tons of people here commute, we all work and live in the same area, and all have to be at work at the same time. For some reason, 4 out of 5 days, I don't see another bike rider.

I have a similar experience to Pigtire - I leave home ~6:00AM, and see no other regular commuters on my 15 mile ride into work. The ride home at ~6PM is busier - both cars and more bikes, but no other cyclists that I see regularly.

not here in beantown!:) :) :)

Maybe once every 3 weeks I'll see another rider and then, half the time it's not even another commuter, just a roadie out for an early evening ride.

36 miles round trip in metro ATL. You'd think I'd see more commuters.

I do get that feeling in mid-January oftentimes.

Lonely Commute, but with "friends"
 

I commute from Cape Coral, FL into Fort Myers....25 mi R/T.....I have been doing this about 4 out of 5 days a week since January. I have seen 2 other commuters twice during this entire time.......but I have many "friends" on the trip....4 sets of Burrowing Owls, 1 set with 3 young, the other three are still on their nest, I think.........1 set of Ospreys, 2 adults and 1 hatchling, who is now flying....and about once a week, coming across Veteran's bridge on the Caloosahatchee River, I stop and watch several Dolphins....occasionally see several Rays at the surface, and every evening, I have flights of 2-3 Pelicans flying alongside side me on the mile long bridge....

Not this time of year. I feel like one of a multitude.
One morning I counted 1 commuter in the first 15 miles and 30 in the remaining 13.

same :(

I rarely see anyone that looks like they are commuting and only see another person on a bike - going the correct way on the roadway about once or twice a week.

I see people on sidewalks and going against traffic all the time.

wait til gas gets up to about 6 bucks a gallon.:eek: :eek:

I see tons of other commuters when I'm in my car, but only a couple when I'm riding. I'm guessing it has to do with leaving much later when I drive in, but I always have the urge to yell, "Hey! I do that too...!"

I'll believe it when I see it.


...not the fact that gas won't get to $6, because I believe it will, but that $6 gas will make people bike commute.

I believe cyclocommuting will be low on the alternative forms of transportation list.
Mopeds, motorcycles, mass transit, van pooling, etc will all be more popular due to how active the average american is.

sad. is that why there's so many fat folks?:) :eek: :) :eek:

With decades of cyclocommuting experience, I can tell you that the feeling is always there. In the summer (late May and early June) I see a few more people but when winter gets here, all I hear is the wolves howling in the wilderness;) Except on Bike-to-Work Day (Denver's is a month late because it used to rain buckets in May), then it's like going to church at Easter and Christmas. Everybody gets out their bike and is just as pious as hell! They get to feel good about doing something for the environment, they get rewards for doing a ride one day a year, and us suckers who do this day in and day out have to keep from running them down:mad: And then, because they all rode in on their bikes, they all leave early because they are tired. Poor babies.

I hate Bike-to-Work Day!

I'm in favor of all of these means...although it would be nice to share the road with few more bike commuters every now and then. :)

You and me both.
My wife signed me up for it :mad:
I don't need any special events or recognition. The fact that I am 5 lbs out from my original goal to loose 42 lbs is enough for me.

That and automatically being lumped together with the once a year commuters is annoying. I bet the bike rack on my bus will be full. yay

Heh... I'm in the process of convincing my boss to ride in on bike to work day... even offered to ride from Colfax and Wadsworth out to his place in Golden to meet up with him for the ride in to work (Near I-70 and Brighton Blvd)

Nevermind me. I'm a tad cranky.
The good side is that my promotion went through. The bad is that I am now insanely busy.
ugh

The other day I saw 74 bikers on the 17 mile ride to work. All but a dozen was over a 3 miles section of the ride where I cross the St Lawrence river

Heh, we have zillions in NYC. However, when I would commute up to Westchester, I'd NEVER see anybody else between towns at least. Maybe in a town, and there was one semi-regular who took the train up when I did to ride to work like I did but for far fewer miles (both did bike-train-bike, get it?).

I see quite a few cyclists here in town, but not at work. There are now something like 700 employees in my office, on a daily basis I may see a handfull of bicycles on the rack. In town I'll see people all bent over on their road bicycles because they're wanna be.....er that is triathletes in training. But I don't think they're riding for transportation

I am the only commuter I know of. I can count on two hands the number of other byciclist I have seen in my year or so of commuting.

If it's tuesday, wednesday or thursday and the weather is nice, and the forecast calls for nice weather to continue all day, I might see another commuter or 2.

I used to see the same 1 or 2 other guys all winter, but haven't seen them in ages.

I used to. Suddenly in the last few weeks, I see 3-4 every morning and night. That's a lot for around here. I do see this one fellow every day. I'm on a road bike on the road, he's on a mountain bike on the sidewalk. We race. I win. He gets mad that's he's beaten by a girl. :)

I'm the one and only commuter in my area. Now that it's summer I see other bikes on the road, but they are all maned by children. This year I have only once seen another adult on a bike. He was out for a fitness ride.
--A

I ride 5 miles from out in the sticks to the edge of town and never see anyone coming or going except maybe a kid here or there on a bike. If I get into town it's a bit different. I left the house this moring at 3:45am and never even saw a car.
I work with 200+ people and I'm the only hardcore commuter, close or far away, if I lived a block or two away from work and drove I'd be ashamed of myself.

In the warmer, drier months in Seattle there are mini-pelotons of commuters on the popular routes at peak hours. It's pretty cool, and at times slightly maddening with everyone jockeying for position.