I'm new to this site. (just started commuting to work about a month ago) I find bike commuting wonderful and refreshing, not to mention the health benefits. While browsing through the mountain bike racing forum (I'm not a mountain biker myselft though) I saw a thread where the members can put their brief introduction of themselves. Since I don't have many commuters living around me in the area, the forum gives me the feeling of belonging to a community of fellow commuters, who love biking and/or like to live conciously. I'll start by sharing my background:


Age: 29
Location: Provo, UT
Occupation: IT consultant
Hobbies other than biking: computers, reading, hiking, family outings, training dogs for weight pull
Average miles you ride a day: 10 miles
Fav. Music: Anything that gives me the the kick
What's your favorite commuting bike: Novara Safari

You're welcome to add more to this list, I'm running out of ideas. Thanks for all your posts, and I've learned a lot from you about biking on this forum.

Welcome to the Forums and the world of commuting. I know there are a couple of threads already floating around like this. But this will give all the recent members a chance to fill us all in

I have been commuting now on and off for 16 year, the last 4 regularly and this year I have not even driven to work once.
Age:47
Real name: David (a lot of people think its nate 'cause of the handle)
Location:Everett WA just north of Seattle
Occupationain in the A$$, well I manage a shipping department also
Hobbies other than biking: Cooking, camping, hiking, micro brew tasting, wine tasting, reading, and movies
Average miles per day: 10
Favorite music: Just about anything (I have even found myself liking country music )
Bikes: '83 Bianchi San Remo (touring)
'95 Softride Solo 700 (Road)
'89(apx) Specialized Sequoia (good weather
commuter- Hybrid)
'02 Bianchi Grizzly (foul weather commuter and all
and all around fun bike- MTB)
Favorite forum: Bikeforums.net

Here is mine

Age: 20
Real name: Ray
Location: Gorham, Me
Occupation: Biology Student
Hobbies other than biking: Skydiving, Hiking, Climbing, Skateboarding, and Computers
Average miles per day: 20 (when I can ride, all depends on homework)
Favorite music: Mostly anthing (not a country fan)
Bikes: 2002 Jamis Aurora (commuting, light touring)
2003 Jamis Exile (MTB)

Quote to Live by: "If at first you don't succeed, than skydiving isn't for you"

Age: 32
Location: Northern Passaic Cty, NJ
Occupation: Software Engineer
Hobbies other than biking: hiking, packpacking, X-C skiing, Kayaking, anything in the woods, home theater, table tennis.
Average miles you ride a day: 20 miles
Commuting since: 2001
Fav. Music: Prog. Rock, Reggae, Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass...
What's your favorite commuting bike: '95 Marin Team
Bikes:
'95 Marin Team
'97 Lemond Zurich
'98 Santa Cruz Superlight
'01 Seven Axiom Ti
'03 Look 381i

Goal in life: To be happy.


Jay

Age: 36
Location: Sacramento
Occupation: Lawyer
Hobbies: reading, movies, gardening, diaper-changing
Avg. miles/day: 15
Favorite music: depends on my mood
Bikes: 99 REI Novara Triomfo (commuter and rain-trainer), 01 Trek 5200 (the 'A' Bike)

Quote to live by: "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"

Welcome, you will find a lot of good info here.


Real name: Scott

Occupation: Med Tech, local hospital

Other hobbies: RC Airplanes

Miles last year: 3400, av. 30 miles a ride

Commuter: Old Trek 830, fenders, drop bars, bar end shifters

Other bike: Trek 2000 road bike with up grades, Trek 7200 Hybrid

Goal in life: Be true to my family, my God, and myself! Then just
live it!

Going back to the bike is one of the best things I have ever done!

Real name: Alec, age 20

Occupation: College student, majoring in Technology Education

Other hobbies: collecting hot wheels

Miles last year: still working on my first year of riding, so far its in the 1,000 range, av. 15-20 miles a ride

Commuter: Single Speed Concord road bike with a fender and my lucky Leprechaun

Other Bike: Trek 820, my first real bike, and its what got me into it about 10 months ago

Goal in life: Love, Honor, Respect for everyone

the best thing i did for myself was to start cycling, now i'm 80 punds lighter and much, much healtier and happier

Patrick Arena
Age: 29 (for a little longer)
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
originally from: Central New York. Lived in north Jersey, Florida, Arizona, and Boston Maaaaass
Occupation: working for the man by day (as an internal support help desk), working on a viable art career by night.
Other activities other than biking: art, dogs, hiking, travel, city planning, architecture, history, books
bikes: 12 year old Trek 820 turned Frankenstein commuter, late 60's Huffy 3 speed roadster, a couple of 30 year old department store 10 speed's I picked up at the Rescue Mission for $10 and will be converted into town bikes. Nice lugged frames and everything! No good high end bikes yet due to me being a cheap bastid. Someday I'll have a Rivendell...*sigh*
average commute: 12 miles round trip
goal: be completely carless on a daily basis and live a reasonable and sustainable existence

Age:46

Real name: Brad
Commuting semi-regularly for almost 2 years.

Location: Suburbs of St. Louis, MO
Originally from: Litchfield, IL

Occupation: Data analyst at medical school. Yawn.

Hobbies other than biking: Pet tortoises, a little photography

Average miles per day: 0-20, depending on the season. The commute is 12 miles round trip.
Bikes: Trek 6500 MTB with slicks for commuting
Trek 520 for touring and recreational riding

age 45
Tallahassee fl (north fl)
Machinist/enginner,but i call myself a toolmaker
Photography,cycling,working in my home machine shop
Commute 10 miles a day year round(rain&shine)
I ride around5 to 6 thousand miles a year, training to race,but have not in a few years
Got married three years ago,and trying to balance riding and being a husband
iIhave two time trial bikes, three road bikes, two MTB bikes(off road bikes,no mountians here)
used to build frames and custom stems,and do frame repair
been riding and commutings for 18 years
my commuter is my old mtb reworked/painted,love getting to use it after all of the great rides i had on it
after work i will ride home and get the road bike and ride around 32 miles
I have biult three sets of lights that are on my two mtbs and commuter,and really loved fixing up the commuter to handle bike ant thing that might happen on my ride(double leged kick stand/lights/horn/turn&brake lights flashers/home made rack/etc

Real Name : Nick

Age: 28

Hobbies: Driving(safely, sometimes quickly), programming, web design, trains, dining, bush, guitar, singing, being sick from work

Real Job: Factory Hand (Night shift...)

Locale: Geelong Australia. It's up the road from Melbourne.

Favorite Music: 70's, TOOL, Nirvana, Hendrix, Stones, Classical(15th Century to present)

Commute: 47km (29ml) My commute is only 27km, but I go for a 20km circuit on the way. Because I leave for work at 9:10pm, it's nice and quite, because I'm kind of in a country area. I want to get fitter and better at cycling.

Bikes: My main bike is a Giant OCR3 '04(road bike). I ride this one on the tarmac only. For bike trails, I ride an old but nice generic steel framed 12spd road bike.


Nick.

Age: 45

Job: Radiation & Explosive Safety Officer for oilfield service company.

Location: South Louisiana

Commute: 10 to 34 miles round trip, depending on which yard I am working at that day. Makes it a little tough to pre-position clothes. I hate toting a pair of size 13 steel-toed boots around on my bike.

Bikes: Fuji Finest, slightly modified, which is my main ride, and and old Bianchi converted to fixed gear, which is still a few weeks from completion.

Music: Everything, except whiney C&W.

Hobbies: My family, sailing, model rocketry, bicycle advocacy (LAB LCI #1126)

Goals: To raise my two sons to be good men, and leave the world a little better that I found it.

Cool thread idea!