Me, my university and my work is like a triangle with 7 km between each of the three. (1 mile = 1,6 km.) So my commutes are either 14 km or 21 km roundtrip, but I usually bike around in the city ”after school” so every day is always over 20 km. Except for these cold days when I take the tube and am late to everything...

I bike the 7 km in 15 minutes. With public transportation it can sometimes take more than one hour (but usually about 45 minutes).

I ride 10.5 miles each way on the direct route from Va into DC, occasionally taking the scenic 17 mile route home. Have had this job over 20 years but only started commuting 16 months ago. I figure I missed about 95000 miles of training in all that time. What might my legs look like now, if only ..., if only ...!
[Welcome to the street, caj808. Don't worry, by next fall you'll cover the 16 miles in the time you take now for 11, and will be searching for longer alternative routes. Hobbs, your ride sounds wonderful. Wind in NZ is like wind in US - always a headwind?]

Welcome to the forums

And wind in the UK

Richard

14 miles round trip, unless its a nice friday and I take the long way home. that adds an additional 10-30 miles, depending on my mood.

Heres the short route. I love back country roads...

Mine is about 17 miles of riding, or a little over 27 km.

This can vary by a few miles depending on where I'm coming from or where I have to be after to work. I have yet to take meandering detours in order to lengthen my rides -- I'm usually late for something so it's an unlikely scenario -- but I have been known to lengthen my routes by getting lost (once backtracked for at least a couple of km before realizing I'd gotten turned around).

C

We don't use miles in Oz; mine is 22 km each way. 30 minutes by car, 45 by bike = 90 minutes' exercise for only 30 extra minutes! (Made easier by the prevailing winds, which are usually behind both ways. The afternoon sea breeze in Perth is famous - especially during cricket matches - and is known as the Fremantle Doctor.)

Today was my first ride to work for almost four months - hit by a car in October with fractures to hip socket and collar-bone, and the driver is pleading not guilty to a careless driving charge! This was during a recreational ride, not while commuting. Will post closer to the court hearing date.

Welcome to the forums, and sorry to hear of your crash.

Richard

[Hi, I'm new here]

Seems to be a popular thread, so I figured I'd just join in.

I do a 26-mile RT most days, riding into Philadelphia entirely via road. I've been doing this a couple of years now, and it's become a really important part of my life.

Let's see, I had one collision with a drunken pedestrian last year; broke my wrist and forearm, but it was February so I probably lost fewer riding days than I would have in the summer. And I got right-hooked a couple of months ago; no harm done except one of my nice Ultegra levers is all scraped up. But I fine none of this particularly discouraging; it's all a lot less harmful than the auto accidents I used to see every day on the expressway.

I ride an Airborne Carpe Diem most of the time since I got it last June. It's set up as a light touring bike, with a mixed road/MTB drivetrain. I bought it as a 50th birthday present for myself, as a reward for riding 5000 miles during my 49th year.

My "rain bike" is a Novara Randonee touring bike, which I also use on the commute when I need to carry the week's laundry or a lot of work-related cargo.

This looks like a very active and interesting forum, so I'll be seeing y'all around!

RichC

Welcome Rich.

My commute is the same round trip length although into Edinburgh (the city of "You'll have had your tea?"- ask a Glaswegian to explain that) rather than the city of brotherly love.

Look forward to seeing more of your posts.

the Carpe Diem is a fine bike ( and is also the expression on my Notary Seal!)

Rich, welcome--and let me say you have perceived correctly the nature of this forum. It is TERRIFIC. If there were World-Wide-Web National Treasures, this should be one of them.

Also glad, since I'm 62, to see yet another over-shall-we-say-40? rider joining in. One really great thing about the Bike Forums is that there are participants from the teen years up to 70 or so. And another plus is the international mix.

Ride hard, post often!

Starting next week, my new commute will be a 48km round trip.

These kind always are. We've got all kinds of commuters in BF. If you look at a bunch of threads like this, you'll find average commute lengths to be around the 10 mile mark one way (at least among people who report such things). Many of the urban folk have shorter rides, but there are a significant number who go 15, 20, or even 25 miles each way.

10 mile round trip or so. I average something like 15mph. It's pretty much the quickest way for me to get to work. I guess the subway might be quicker if I biked to and from the train stations and the trains got there right as I did.

My old commute was 6 miles and change RT. I now work out of town living in the same place, my commute takes me all the way across Toronto and east some more - 33 miles one way. I've not yet done more than one full day commute yet, though it's my second week now - so early days I do a combined bike/train/bike commute equalling around 14 miles RT if I take the train in both directions (the "off"/lazy days). My ride in the morning took 2:15 door to door actual time for the full 33 miles, which isn't too bad at all - my bike/train/bike commute takes me around 1:45 door to door, so in comparison it's not so bad at all (this does involve a 10/15-ish minute wait for the train, as I prefer to be early for it).

I'm working myself slowly upto doing 2 full day commutes coupled with 3 half-commutes (as I don't have time for riding back every day, so I have to take the train when I need to be back in town earlier).

I also have the option of riding to any of the 5 or 6 stations in between my job and my home and catching the train there, rather than my closest station.

I'm just over 14 miles each way. One big hill (around 800 feet over 2.25 miles) and 3 smaller ones, plus lots of stoplights and signs. All on roads of greatly varying quality. My favorite part is going along the Seattle waterfront in the morning. Traffic is generally light and I've got a great view across the water of the Olympic mountain range.

My commute is 17.6 mi each way. (per Google maps) Very flat, some bike lanes, some shoulders, some wide right lanes and some sidewalks because lanes are too narrow. I live in Orlando FL and take State Route 436 (Semoran Blvd) north of the airport all the way to Altamonte Springs before getting off and taking side streets to Longwood. takes 75 minutes so I must average 14 mph.

Ralph

Starting 3 weeks from today, my new commute will be between 65 and 70 kilometres round trip, depending on which route I take.

I probably won't end up riding it every day, but I am planning to try for a few days each week.

Mine is about 12 miles round trip.

10 miles to work and 12 miles home. I avoid traffic as much as possible.

My commute is 40 miles round trip, it takes me about 1 hour and 20 minutes one way, I do this at least 3-4 times a week. I love riding

My commute is only about 4 miles each way. When I started this seemed like a long way to go. I am now trying to lengthen the commute so I get 15 miles rt.

Wow! Thread resurrected from limbo after a 6 year nap!
9.3 suburban/urban miles each way.

I have had a 26 mile roundtrip commute for about 7 years. My group just moved to a new satellite office facility three weeks ago, and my "new" roundtrip bike commute is 36 miles. I have a secure bike locker at the home office, and I now have a private office (instead of a cubicle) where I roll the bike right on in! I have several route options, so I vary the trip home, just for different scenery/traffic considerations. I also alternate bikes; I have two fixed gear jobs that I use occasionally; I primarily use either my Novara Big Buzz or Novara Element for hack duty.

I am 30 miles from work, 60 miles round trip, I bring my bike and park and bike about 30 total miles a day 4 days a week.

13.7 miles to work each way, and believe it or not uphill at the end going both ways. I'd probably be willing and able to go up to 20 each way right now if I was transfered.