Which is Better: The Ride to Work? Or the Ride Home?
 

Maybe it's because in the winter the ride home is in the dark, but I find my morning ride is more exhilarating. Maybe it's seasonal? Maybe the traffic's worse for the evening commute. What do you say?

What's your route through brooklyn?

I find the morning commute more hectic but slower and the evening commute less hectic but faster (riding harder).

It's def. the ride home for me, generally thats the half of the commute with a tail wind, and not as many gradual inclines.

Alternates.
If I drive, my AM commute is 10 min vs 25-30 on bike, going home due to traffic, it's about 25 whether I'm driving or pedaling.
During daylight savings, it's def the commute home.
However nowadays, it's generally the ride in- wakes me up for the day, and once I've lifted and showered, I've got a steaming hot thermos of cappucino/latte from my Bialetti that I make before I leave the house.

For the ride home in wonderful bike "friendly" Starkville Mississippi, I get a nearly 60' overall decent according to gmap-pedometer. Yay for downhills!

The weekend ride is the best. :D

Morning Commute for me is 4 miles uphill. Afternoon commute, I'm burned out, but at least it's downhill.

Morning is mostly uphill, but I'm more tired in the afternoon before the ride home.

You up for a cruise friday night? Coldest day of the year yet.

Definitely the ride in. Cooler, fewer cars, downhill, generally a tailwind, and I'm fresher.

My job requires that I park my Service Truck in my drive way...............
Weekend and evening in summer only is all I have, we got snow and ice now.

It's different everyday for me. Today was a great ride in, but the ride home had a steady head wind all the way. Sometimes it's the other way around.

Usually the ride home, because if I'm pissed, I can run it like a TT, really get the lead out, and not worry about showing up to work stinky or sweaty.

For me it's a Win/Win.. On the ride in, It's more or less to get paid, for the ride out, it's to get away :D

I have been having blast on the snow and ice, more than I can remember from previous years, not sure why.....

I put the ride home.
I enjoy both. But I like the ride home better because it is mostly down hill..:D :D

If I could get those Lake shoes for then I'd be up for it but unfortunately... not gonna have 'em until the weekend!

Love both, but prefer a nice ride home--unless it's dark!

This time of year, I enjoy the ride home more. Take this poll again in July, and you might find that the ride in gets more votes...

I like my ride in the morning the best, but sometimes I like riding home the best. Every day is different.

My ride home is best for me - generally get a tailwind, and it's a lot of downhill, dark or not.

Home this time of year, it is much warmer. Vice versa in summer.
An exception would be when having issues at work or fighting with the wife.

On the ride in I'm generally pretty happy, thinking about stuff I see, the snow, fairly happy go lucky. On the way home I'm generally preoccupied with something that happened during the day, and I don't get to enjoy the ride as much.

I wouldn't care if it was constant uphill and headwinds every day, I always enjoy going home much more than going to work.

The ride in involves downhills and a tailwind, plus the cagers are less likely to be ******bags. On the way home I have to grunt up hills and false flats all the way to my house. It's good, but not as fun as riding in.

In the winter I like the ride in better as well. It's cold both ways (or it ought to be), but the sun's out in the A.M. and the chill is a nice wake up.
On the way home, it's dark, I'm a little more tired, and drivers seem to be a bit more antsy than in the morning.

Right now it's suckin' a bit more both ways because Will Smith has his Hollywood s**t all up in my bike path by the Bklyn Bridge.

I voted different every day, but if I had to choose one, I enjoy the morning commute better.

There's something about being on the road at 4:30 AM or 5:00 AM with a fresh snow, being lit up like a Christmas tree and dressed like an astronaut in training that I really enjoy. I don't pretend to understand it.

I love my ride in,

by MUP its 19 miles , by major 4 lane road 13.5 miles.

Riding into work I dont have too much climbing one hill if I take the MUP , rolling hills if I take the road with a monster big hill at the end of the commute to scream down. also less traffic In the AM , precarious traffic in the afternoon. home is 360' higher elevation than work.

my trip home even in good weather is much slower. if I take the MUP I have a 1.5 mile climb (pretty steep) to get on the mup and when I get off the MUP I have a 4 mile climb at the end of the commute (fun in the morning going down)

If I take the road I have a 1.5 mile very steep climb right off the bat out of office and then its small incremental climbs untill I get home and always a headwind in the afternoon as Im heading west.

the ride home takes 20-30 mins longer than my commute into work due to elevation and wind.

"John"

Home. Reasons:

1. The ride in is on the way to work. Who in their right mind wants to go to work? ;) I like my job but still...it's work!

2. The wind blows like the furies of hell from the west here. Work is to the west. 'Nuff said.

3. Real mountains are only 3 miles away from my work. Real mountains around here generally shoot up into the sky from the plains. Unfortunately, they don't shoot up fast enough. It's up hill to work - 10 miles and 587 feet of climbing...about 150 feet of that in the last 2 miles:o

4. Home is 587 feet lower than work...Wheeeeeeeee! And the wind is at my back....WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!;)

I think I like the ride home better. My ride is like a big W so it is truly uphill both ways with a bonus hill in the middle. The difference is that to work is a blazing first mile and slogging uphill for most of the rest.

On the way home I reel back in all of that gradual uphill, so it's blazing fast for a longer distance with a really steep climb up the mountian on the last mile home. Plus on the way home, lots of cars are trapped in the gridlock. It's fun to laugh as you roll buy the steaming cagers, trapped in their own swill.