... it's about 24-26 miles round trip, which gives me a little less than 2 hours on the bike each day. long enough to feel like i've had a ride, but not so long that i'm wiped out.

and the best part is that those 2 hours of biking are gained at the expense of only 1 hour of my day, since i would be spending at least an hour driving my car to work. fuzzy biking math.

-junebride

My commute is also about 2 hours. I look at the second hour as time I would have spent doing some form of exercise anyway. So really, commuting by bike doesn't take any extra time. I have only been at this about three months so, as my conditioning improves, I think I can get that time down quite a bit.
And since riding is good for me and she wants me to be safe, my wife lets my buy extra toys for my bike. Hey, I already got a new bike out of it! :-)
Regards,
Raymond

Before I recently retired my commute was 30 miles round trip. It included a bit of everything. It had some heavy city traffic, light slow speed residential areas and high speed light to heavy "out in the country roads". Weather was usually mild . I tried to commute at least three times a week. Over the years, I found the more I rode, the less problems I had with the "regulars" on my commute. Like they were used to seeing me every morning and evening. I had some of the normal incidents, but they were getting further apart in occurances all the time.

My commute...when the weather allows *I know, I know* is 20 miles rt...urgh....did it for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and was put off for life!!!!

Rich

Mine's 28 round-trip. Don't do it everyday, though, or not yet, at least. 50 sounds like too much, but a guy here in Atlanta says he does it once or twice a week. Maybe you could drive halfway?

I have a very easy commute. I actually drive to work in my truck in the morning since I take my son to the babysitter. I live extremely close to work, so I get to eat lunch at home everyday. The cycle back to work is only 1.44 miles (2.32 km), takes only 7 minutes, and is mostly downhill. I stretch the ride home to between a 4 and 10 mile ride, but if I needed to get home in a hurry I could be there in 10 minutes (the short ride home is only 2 miles). I've ridden almost everyday to work since the beginning of January 2001, and I log about 25 to 30 miles a week with my bike from commuting. It couldn't have an excuse not to commute to work.

Hey Hey
My workday commute is approximately 300 metres or about 220 if i take the subway before i can sink into the sofa and recover with a hot coffee

sadly, my job title is that of a cycle courier and my 40-70 mile day soon wipes the smug grin off me face!

My commute is 10 miles (16 km) one way if I take the shortest route. That's most of the way on a two lane highway with no shoulders and high speed traffic. Not too bad in the morning when the traffic is light. It's pretty open, and out on the prairies here we tend to get some fairly windy days so that can affect my times quite a bit. An alternate route is a little longer but on a four lane highway with a lower speed limit (go figure), but still no paved shoulders. I can cut off of this highway and take a small paved road along the river, with a paved bike lane and the pavement was redone only a couple of years ago. This part is my favourite local ride, and I'll frequently go past my destination just to put on a few more kilometers before I go in to work (provided I can get myself out of bed early enough!). I usually end up commuting only two or three days a week, due to other commitments before or after work, where clothes, lack of shower facilities etc. are an issue. The days I do ride in though are great. There are a couple of other guys I work with that ride in occasionally, and almost everyone on our staff of 10 rides at least recreationally, and one guy is a pretty serious MTB racer. It's a very good atmoshpere at work for anyone involved with fitness activities, as we've got a weight room we equipped ourselves, and an older road bike on a trainer we can use on breaks. The company provided us with a room to use, and we have showers as well. The weather is finally breaking, although there is snow in the forcast for tomorrow, so the commuting will start again soon. Can't wait!

My commute is about 10 miles each way, through industrial areas and dowtown Cleveland Ohio, with a few alternate routes that add or subtract about 1 mile(just for variety).

Today was my first commute to my job. I've been planning this for a while.

Each way, I ride 8km (5mi). It's almost all residential thru streets. I cross a 4-lane street that's actually US 169. The last 2 blocks (1/4 mi - .4 km) is on the only busy, main road that I take - State Line Rd.

I live in Overland Park, KS, and work in Kansas City, MO.

Jonathan

I don't have a fixed commute as such (I work more or less from home but usually make several trips during the day). I think that it is fair to say that I spent an average of 1 hour with my buttocks on my bike seat every day (between 45 min and 1h30 on most weekdays).

I don't have one of these computer thing so to translate that into mileage is a guess. how fast does one go at a steady pace (but without racing) on a touring bike? 15m ph? 20?

Nine flat miles one way. It takes 39 minutes usually. The world record is 29 minutes ( I was running late.)

Sounds about my speed, too. But I have trouble shaving off more than 5 minutes in an hour. Saving 10 minutes over a 9-mile route is, like, whew!

That's a record!

I too live extremely close to work. I work downtown and live only 3km from work. If time permits, I'll add a few km to my commute in the morning. My wife's commute is 12km one way.

Pete: It was a remarkable ride all right - the stuff of dreams. There was an unusual wind from the east pushing me along, and the lights timed perfectly. I blew off all the other red lights with unheard-of ease. I stayed in the office a little later than I thought, and had promised the missus that I would be home by 6:00 or else. I made it home at 6:00 on the dot, baby. (Then passed out on the kitchen floor.)

PPTB: 15 miles per hour is a brisk-but-not-too-fast pace for commuting. No sense in starting the day all stinky.

I try to do at least one commute per week from home to work and that is 40km one way, approximately takes 2 to 2 1/2hours and around 2 3/4 hrs return as I take my time usually going home and the traffic is usually more crazy on the return trip.

I'm fortunate that I have showers at work so I can freshen up, otherwise I would be pretty ripe by noon. Even with that time interval I still get into work before some people that drive only 10km to work.

I also have to make a point of getting home early (before 9pm) on Friday's as some people have a tendancy to have a few drinks after work than drive home. Watch out for pay days also, people get real wierd than.

In case anyone hasn't noticed from his alias, Bentrider
commutes on a recumbent. Bentrider, you should attach a picture of your beautiful machine so us "wedgie" riders can peek!

My commute (Monday through Friday, rain or shine!) is 10 miles round-trip. I live at one of the highest points in the county, and I work at THE lowest point in the county! So by definition, the ride in the morning is faster, and easier. Not to mention, (but I WILL anyway,) it gets H-O-T in Augusta, Georgia. Home to me and home-away-from-home to Cambronne.

I wondered when I first began commuting by bike, how others here at work would view the idea of a biker-dude. But I've gotten many positive comments, such as, "That's a good way to make sure you get your exercise in each day!" ... True.

14 miles to the boat, and 1 mile from the boat to the office. One way,

So round trip, roughly 30 miles I guess. The way there is down hill. Plenty fast, and easy with no traffic.
Home is uphill in commute hour time frame. But that makes a challenge I guess you'd say.

Same here. I work with yuppies who are always showing off their latest luxury car It is almost a problem for me to be taken seriously on a bike. The nice thing is: bike are not a status symbol. For a start nobody (but a monority of fellow bikers) know anything about bikes (what they are, how good they are, what they are worth).

Here in the Southwest, where every 15 year old drive a polluting vehicle, one is looked with suspicious for not owning a car.

Since this my first day commuting I can now say it's 21 miles each way. How sweet it is!!

bjlaw,

Way to go! :thumbup:

I have 17 miles each way. I have been able to commute to work here in Maine 3-5 days a week, since March 27 2000 until last Monday. The snow has not stopped coming. I usually can get back on the road after waiting 2 days for the roads to melt a bit, but there is too much ice buildup. The town I live in doesn't want to wear out their snowplows and lifts them a bit above the road, so the ice builds up, and they have ruts and savage bumps. I sure have learned a lot since March, but i am in withdrawal now and need some riding.

Pardon my French, but what a bunch of ******* morons. Why do they use them at all if they don't want to wear them out?

The town of Hope is hopeless as far as scraping the roads. These tiny Maine towns get wierd with their cheapness, and they do unique things like lift the plows from scraping the roads and leave a film of ice that they then need to put extra sand on to keep cars from sliding off ,etc. It's impossible to truly understand. That's probably why i love it up here.