I ride 15miles to my home, or 10 miles to the girlfriends. Here is my video of my commute to GFs sped up 8x. Mix of residential streets and and mostly bike lane/paths through Los Angeles.

My commute is 17.3 miles each way. It's along paved, rural roads with minimal traffic. I can usually start pedaling at home and arrive at work an hour later without putting my feet down at all. Here's google earth's profile of my route. It's certainly alot hillier than I thought it was before I started biking....

Here's a typical stretch of roadway...

All in all it's a great commute and I've dropped about 20 lbs from my former non-bikecommuting self.

I like these kinds of threads.
My commute is 9 miles in the morning, through a tiny town and onto rural two lane roads, 55 mph speed limits and no shoulders. But little traffic too: this morning I didn't get passed by any cars, and only met two going the other way, neither on the gravel section. I have a brief bit through pasture land before I turn onto a gravel road with little rolling hills through forested (douglas fir, mostly) land and a creek, then back onto pavement and up over a big ridge through mixed pasture and forest, some oaks by that point in addition to the conifers. Then down the ridge into Dallas where I catch a bus to ride the other 41 miles of my commute, if I am working in Stayton that day. Today I went into down town Salem and caught a city bus out to my work place. This afternoon I'll ride back down town and catch the commuter bus again, but I'll get off before Dallas so that I add miles. My total ride home will be about 18 miles.

My commute is a whopping 3/4 mile each way. I leave my garage and ride about 90 seconds to get out of my subdivision. I then cross a somewhat busy street and ride maybe 15 seconds to the main driveway of my workplace. I then ride another 90 seconds or so on company property to my building (I have indoor bike parking in my building).

Paul

My post was eaten by auto log-out. :-( Anyway, 9-10 mile urban commute, 45mph (maybe 35) or less roads. Few bike lanes, sometimes use the MUP for a stretch on the way home. So instead of a nice descriptive post with pics here's my commute to work and one of my routes home.

My commute starts out on about 3 1/2 miles of fairly flat chipseal road. from there I get on the MUP for about 10 miles. from the trail-head I use I have 5 or 6 intersections to cross until I get back on public roads. I have a couple of options for the last bit before getting to the office; the shorter route is about 1/2 mile on fairly busy city roads, the second option is about a mile longer and uses a back road with a decent hill. The nice thing about riding into work, is the route is pretty much down hill. I can ride in at about 17-18 MPH without getting real sweaty.
Then on the way home I can get a good workout as the route is at a gradual climb heading home.

My route is 20.5 miles give or take, so 41 round trip. From home to work the first 7 or so miles are residential road, minimal traffic (On the way home those roads are busier). By mile 8 I am crossing over the Mississippi river, on top of a dam. the next 7 miles is on a MUP that winds through woods and prairie. Typically I see deer, wild turkeys and assorted other little critters. The last 5 or so miles are on busier roads that also have a MUP running along side them. I stick to the MUP but still need to be careful at crossings. Going home I do the exact reverse.

It's a pretty flat course and I think that my house and my office are pretty much the same elevation, yet for some reason I average 1.5 - 2.00 MPH faster (Moving time) on the way home. Motivation, maybe. Who knows.

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Li...8&vpsrc=6&z=14

This is my commute. A little over 5 miles with some "roll" to it but not anything that I'd describe as hills. Most of the commute I have a view of the water (Strait of Juan de Fuca or Victoria's Inner Harbour). Near the end I roll past the Parliament building:


and the Empress Hotel:



I am envious of those with longer commutes, mine used to be 15 miles each way with some good hills, and man did that get me in shape.

I recently changed jobs, but the cycling distance has remained exactly the same. I used to depart from my driveway and ride to work on a combination of suburban streets, divided 4 lane, and country road. It was 22 miles door to door.

Now I load my bike in my Element, drive to the northernmost end of the Suncoast Trail, ride 14 miles on the trail, then take sidewalks alongside busy 4 lanes for 8 miles. Same 22 miles on the bike.

The trail is a blast to ride, but the sidewalks suck. Unfortunately the roads are not safe to ride, so I'm stuck on the sidewalk.

My morning commute, from back in late April. I should reshoot the video now while there are still leaves on the trees. Also maybe in the afternoon so the sun is at my back. 15.5km each way, few lights and plenty of long straight sections. If I leave before 7am the roads are virtually empty the whole ride.

This thread is really interesting!

My commute is about 10 miles one way. Work is on the outskirts of a major metro area, in a setting that is slowly turning from rural to affluent suburban. This means that my commute is a mix of 1) McMansion neighborhoods with wide streets with very little traffic and 2) Narrow, no shoulder, single-lane rural roads with light to medium traffic. I ride by some farms, but I'm sure those farms will turn into neighborhoods in 5 years. I have two stoplights and a few stop signs.

In the morning it's still dark and traffic is very light. At the end of the day, during rush hour, it's still mostly only light to medium, with the exception of one 1/2 mile stretch I can't avoid where the traffic is heavy. I have been looking for ways to get around this section of road; one of the options I'm considering takes me along a golf course cart path. I'm hesitant because it's a pretty hoity-toity golf course.

Less than a mile commute for me. SoCal, Irvine to Newport Beach. NO traffic on the short trip though

My comute consists of a 2.5 mile drive to the parking lot where I park. The roads and sidewalks between my house and the parking lot are just too hosed up to try to ride on. I see a couple of commuters riding it but not me. Once on the bike it's .5 miles to the traffic light by sidewalk, cross the street and 13 miles by bike path to downtown. From the path it's about .5 miles by back city streets to work. Theres one hill at the beginning thats about a 8%er for about 150 yards and one at the end thats about a 10%er for 75 yards. I hate that hill. Other than that it's mostly flat with some mild rollers tossed in. Takes me about 45 to 50 minutes into to work and about 50 to 55 to get home. Going to work is more down hill than up and going home is just the opposite. I do this 2 to 3 times a week depending on the weather. I don't mind the heat or cold but I hate riding in the rain.

Only 7 miles total now days,by the time my legs get warmed up,I'm at work.

Used to be 42 miles,legs got plenty warm then.

I'm impressed by the longer commutes and somewhat envious!

By the way, what is a MUP?

I’m lucky to have a year-round early morning reverse commute from Kenmore Square in downtown Boston out to the southwest suburb of Norwood, and then I take a commuter train back to Boston with my bike. I have four major outbound routes, each defined by the hill I climb, and the local environment. Each route is about 14 miles long and though different, they are encompassed within a distance of less than about 2.5 miles from the farthest east to west. All of them are mostly residential to light commercial thoroughfares. In increasing order of the difficulty of the hills, I describe them as:

-“gritty” urban (Centre and Washington St through Jamaica Plain and Roslindale)

-pleasant suburban (Pond St to Goddard St and on to Newton St and Independence to the VFW Parkway through West Roxbury)

-pleasant urban (Jamaicaway and Centre St to Rte 1 through Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury)

-ritzy suburban (Walnut St to Warren to Lee and on to Newton St through Brookline).

These are not especially tough hills, but noticeably different in effort. My favorite route is the pleasant urban one, and it is also the best maintained during the winter. The last four miles of each of the routes is a final common pathway through Dedham to Norwood.

When I go into training for a century according to a ten-week schedule I follow, my weekday mileage increases gradually from 14 to about 30 miles and I expand my routes, going through some of the most desirable cycling areas in the Metro Boston area such as Milton, Newton and Dover.

My commute is ~12.5 miles each way. All city streets, varying from multi-lane throughways to quiet residential streets. Rolling/hilly-not much coasting for sure. In the AM I leave at 5:00, so I head right through the heart of down town on fairly major streets. Very few cars, a couple regular walkers, and a commuter or two. The last 5 miles is a major thoroughfare and there is no choice in either direction. In the AM it is quiet. Best time in the AM is 48 minutes.

The afternoon return at anywhere from 4:30 to 7:00 PM, depending on the days events, is the same first 5 miles, then I turn off into a quiet residential neighborhood. The first 3 miles are indeed the 'hood, then blending into gentrified older neighborhoods surrounding downtown, followed by a college neighborhood, then into the middle/upper middle class, then my apartment-kind on the edge of another college neighborhood. A real slice of humanity. Best evening time is 52 minutes.

All done on a Surely LHT with rear panniers.

99% friendly drivers too....

I wasn't worried. I'm always outside. But I am looking for cooler weather. We always get 80 to 100 100 degree days. It's humidity that would kill it for me, but we don't have that. 8% today.

That was fun. Maybe I'll take a camera in on Monday.

This is my streamlined route https://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/46732616. Just under 15 miles each way. Plenty of Bike Lane or Sidewalk to suit anyones fancy. It's along popular side streets but never super congested. Going up and down the big roads are nice because the lights are longer for those cars then the ones in the side streets. Catch alot of green lights. Nothing to crazy south florida is pretty flat so its not to extreme.

Water pics please? The map looks like an exceptional ride.

Multi use path

Yeah, but choice is a good thing, and you get that with a shorter commute.

A shorter commute sure is nice in foul weather, if you're not feeling well, or if you're running late. Lemme tell ya, in the middle of a snowstorm, or when the winds are whipping off the lake in February, four to five miles is about all I want to do. And conveniently, that's the length of my winter and default routes.

Then in the nicer weather, I can make my ride as long as I want. I just start by heading east instead of west...

As someone who will stick the bike on the trainer when the snow flies and switch to swimming & spinning for my primary sources of exercise, my hat is off to the commuters who don the studs and ride in the snow. You guys are badasses in a league your own.

Re: longer commutes, you have to admit that there's a certain amount of satisfaction when you see that look on a non-cyclist's face & they say, "You ride in from WHERE?"

Hey Igo, If you click on the link to the map, and drag the little orange man up in the upper left hand corner down to my route, Google Street View allows you to "virtually" ride my route. Google was in town during the summer to take the pics, so what you see is more or less what I see every morning & evening.