My ride to work is 4 miles one way. 80% is a bike/ped path, and half of the path has tree shade. The rest is on quiet residential streets. I cross one highway, but there's a light I can push to get a light. My route is mostly flat with the exception of 3 modest hills (two downhill and 1 uphill going to work). Right off the bike path is my PO, bank and pharmacy. 200 yards off the path is a grocery. I can't complain.

My commute is 23km one way, 100% on road (though almost all roads have a barrier-separated bike lane, and the ones that don't typically have low traffic). Most of the roads are well paved, though there are a few that are quite bumpy. Shanghai topography is extremely flat, so there are no hills to speak of. Highways in the central city are elevated, so I don't have to worry about crossing them. My commute involves a 10 minute long ferry crossing of the Huangpu River, which costs 1.3RMB (~20 cents) each way, as bikes are not permitted on bridges or in tunnels in Shanghai.

My ride is 3 miles one way, mostly flat. Slight slope at each end so I'm starting each ride up hill. I ride residential roads most of the way, save for the ends. At the beginning, I cut through some parking lots to avoid a left hand turn across a busy, dangerous intersection. At the end, I have to hop on a main road to go over an overpass followed by an immediate left. More often than not, I ride a bit farther up and turn around in a driveway, a lot of people make a right off the ramp at high speeds and cars essentially come out of no where.

It's a nice ride, when it's not hot. Sure do wish we had better roads, though. I spend a lot of time dodging tire-eating pot holes and cracks.

Was 12 miles one-way with 10 stop signs and 24 traffic lights (only one of which was a right turn). Flat or false flat except for one highway overpass I could spin over in 50x19 or 50x21. Nice for 2x10 threshold intervals on the way home at night with low traffic.

Mostly streets with moderate speed limits (35-40) and bike lanes, a couple of miles of "bike boulevard" which is wide residential streets with periodic barriers which only allow bikes and pedestrians through, and two miles in a residential area/business district. A very short stretch with limited shoulder and no bike lane.

Just moved closer (3 miles to, 1.5 miles from) though and will need to find some detours to keep riding my 100 weekday miles.

My ride is 9.8 miles going to, and 11.5 coming home. I always tack on an extra climb to finish the day.

It's fairly hilly, If I take the flat route, then it's about 350 feet to ascend. If I go the back route that's a little more hilly, then it's 679 feet to ascend. Most of it is in the form of rolling hills with some big climbs.

I ride on secondary roads, and there is no bikelane. Traffic is moderate with the exception of about a 2 mile stretch where I have to ride on a fairly busy road. (This is why I usually ride a different route home) For the most part I would say 95% of drivers are usually Share The Road friendly. It's that other 5% that worry me.

I have riden to and from work for nearly a year now, and I don't really care to drive unless it's raining or predicting rain in the afternoon over 50% chance. Roads aren't too bad, but there is one place in an intersection, in the bad stretch of road I was talking about,where there is a large concrete blurb that was obviously put there by a leaky mixer or something. It's dangerous to cyclists. I'm still pleading with the county DOT to remove it.

If it doesn't happen soon, a friend and I are planning a flash mob to bust it off the road with some sledgehammers and hauling it off...

My commute is 13 miles one way. I ride the paved shoulder for 90% with a stretch that puts me two way 55mph road. It's cold, 65* F, in the morning and over 100* F on the way home.

My commute is to my college, three times a week; 15 miles one-way, or 10 miles one-way if I take the bus. It's an entirely urban route until I get to the halfway point. The roads are mostly comprised of small rolling hills, but I do have to get past some steeper hills that are a quarter-mile long. I also have to keep to the shoulder on the interstate for a small distance (<1 mile), but aside from that -- it's a nice commute.

I've been bike commuting since last year, and I'm car-free. I've just been hating the heat, but thankfully Summer is almost over.

I hear you, IBeBishin! This summer has been incredibly awful with the heat. People who drive to campus never seem to understand why I'm so hot and sweaty, haha. But the breeze going downhill sure has been nice...

My commute starts at 10:30 am - it's usually fairly pleasant in the summer, before the heat of the afternoon has set in. I have to ride around dodging parking lot traffic since my apartment complex shares an address and driveway with a police station, and several businesses. Then I have to wait and try to cross the 5 lane highway (the closest crosswalk is 1 mile away) so I can start off to work.

The first 3 miles are traveling south on US highway 101, speed limit 45 mph. It goes down to 30 mph when you get closer to the center of town. Even with the high speeds, it's not too bad since the bike lanes are wide, and there's no parking, but the people who rent huge Winnebagos for the weekend do make me nervous. 3 signaled intersections where I go straight, 4 pedestrian crosswalks, 2 of which are signaled. Heading south there is always a tailwind, and the elevation drops by about 100 feet over the 3 miles, but it feels flat. No shade or shelter. I have a PMB in town and pick up my mail about 2 miles into my commute.

However, often there are old people in motorized scooters driving the wrong way up the bike lane. (There is a sidewalk. Don't ask me why they do this.)

Then I turn to the west and go down a much quieter street for about 3/4ths of a mile. There is a steep but very short hill, then down hill and I make a left hand turn into my work's parking lot. Must dodge around old people wandering all over. I generally enter the ambulance bay the wrong way, and park my bike in the alcove where we keep the spare gurney.

To go home, reverse that only add battling a cold and foggy headwind. Commutes home suck, therefore I usually do them much faster, ha ha.

My commute starts out in the suburbs. It takes me about 6 miles to get out of the 'burbs and to the frontage road. From the frontage road, it's 4ish miles to get to the start of the back road which then starts a beautiful 30 mile route through the hills. It's mostly soft climbing with a little rolling terrain, and then I hit a very steep descent, which is followed by more climbing, this time much steeper, and ending with a 4 mile descent at around a 13% grade. Then I ride 7 minutes through some more burbs, and then through downtown. 50 miles later, I get to work. The return trip is much easier, but its only a half hour shorter ride because of all the transfers I have to make on buses and BART trains.

My commute is ten miles and starts roughly at 9pm at night. It starts out in a residential area [1 mile], then down a 4 lane undivided street [this mile is the most treacherous part of the trip], then onto the beautiful Pinellas Trail for seven miles {https://www.pinellascounty.org/trailgd/**
{https://www.pinellascounty.org/trailg...view_map.pdf** . That seven miles includes 2 hills which are inclined pedestrian bridges going over busy streets. The last mile is a 4 lane undivided road which isn't too busy at night.
On the way home I take the same route only I go a couple of miles further up the Pinellas Trail.

Cobblestones!

My daily commute is never the same. I take different routes to/from work. Distance is 18-25 miles round trip, depending which route I take. I take mostly roads/streets with occassional gravel MUP. Twice a week on my way from work I'll do my grocery shopping, banking, other errands.

15-16 km one way, and maybe 400 meters of it is on the street. Rest is paved MUP with maybe total of 1km of grade separated bike lane in the mix. As far as traffic conditions go, 10 kms is pretty smooth going, 3 kilometers I need to be awake and 2 kilometers I have to be rather vigilant. During those 2 kms there's more car traffic in intersections, and more bike and pedestrian traffic on the mup/bike lane to take into account.

--J

My commute is only 2.5 miles and there's only one steep hill I have to climb each way. Since I leave at 5:30 in the morning it's usually chilly and foggy. The best part is I usually have the road to myself. My ride back isn't too bad either, I just deal with heavy traffic during the first 5 minutes or so.

19 mile commute. I start out in the country, in a quaint little village. Half a mile in, I get to the corn fields. The shoulders on the road are amazing so it's nice and safe, even though trucks plow by at 70mph. After 5 miles the scenery starts turning into the suburbs. A few developments here and there, scattered with some smaller corn fields, but by mile 7 it is full-on suburbia. The shoulder gets smaller but the traffic goes slower; an adequate tradeoff. Around mile 9 it turns into a commercial area as I pass through another village, this time with lots of stoplights. On a good day I can time it right and speed through at an average of 20mph. On a bad day I hit every light and lose precious time.

Mile 10 it turns into another village, this time more industrial, and it stays this way until 12. The margins have disappeared at 11, and I am now full-on vehicular cycling. It's scary at first, but after getting a rear blinkie light, it's much safer. The road goes back up to 55, and there's lots of badly paved sewer grates on the side of the road, forcing me to ride further left than I would like, but it works out ok. My first 2 commutes on this route, I just took the sidewalk, as I was afraid of the road here. Since taking the road full time, however, my speed is greatly improved.

Around mile 14 the sidewalk on the right disappears and turns into train tracks that run parallel to the road. The town turns into an urban wasteland, but luckily most cagers take the thruway to work to avoid this area, so the road is relatively low-density, even though it was designed for much more traffic in the day. The sewer grates become even worse, and so does the local populace. Gangbangers and other neerdowells increase in density until it hits a maximum at around mile 16. Then I turn onto a side street, which is almost entirely deserted, as I pass the Buffalo Grand Central Terminal, an absolutely gorgeous gothic architecture building that is no longer in use. Mile 18 goes down one of the worst streets in Buffalo, Fillmore avenue. This road has not been paved in at least 15 years by my estimation. The shoulders are uncycleable. You have to take the lane or you will kill your wheels.

Finally, the neighborhood gets nice again a half mile before getting into work, as I work in a newly gentrified and reclaimed industrial area converted into a modern commercial center.

My commute is 10 miles in the morning and 12-13 miles in the afternoon. The terrain is hilly with only a few flat stretches, but the pavement is good and parts of my route are shaded by trees. I start in the suburbs and ride on neighborhood streets for the first 4 miles, then 1.5 miles on a busy four-lane street. It is the only busy street on my route but unavoidable. Then another 1.5 miles on commercial streets that are wide with not much traffic, followed by 2 miles through a quiet neighborhood. The last mile I have to cross one of the largest, busiest traffic arteries in the city. My office building is right after that intersection, and I do a lap around the building, which adds another mile. The afternoon commute is the pretty much the same in reverse, except I add an extra 2-3 miles on neighborhood streets closer to my home.

In October, my office is moving downtown, which will add another 4-5 miles to my route each way. That will make it about a 30-mile round trip. I am going to try to keep commuting at my current frequency, which is 3-5 days/week, but will have to see how that works out. The big problems are the extra time that it will take because there are a lot more traffic lights as I get downtown, and I won't be able to store my bike in my office, which will entail more time locking up my bike and removing gear that might get stolen.

4 miles one way (I do a half-commute, pick up the remainder by bus). The 4 mile stretch has a really big dip under a train bridge, the remainder is all a slight uphill, until the end which is another sharp climb (5-8% grade).

On the way home, it's all "downhill" so to speak But, with heavier traffic. So, it's a slower go.

It's on a main road, with lighter traffic (People tend to use adjacent routes, but this is a bus line), and it has 3 spots of heavy construction. A portion of the route has crappy roads (Not even car safe, really), and crappy sidewalks, so no matter what it's bumpy, so to speak.

I have four routes I use, with variations for them all. I'm fortunate too that my commute is always off-peak. I start in the early afternoon and work until closing. This also explains why I take a long way to work more often than coming home.

Winter route - 4.3 miles
When the side streets I generally use aren't sufficiently clear, I stick to major arterials. I don't care for it otherwise--too much traffic, too many buses, too many stoplights.

Default route - 4.7 miles to work, 4.5 miles home (due to a one-way)
Except for crossing the river, this is primarily residential streets with a couple of secondary "collector" streets thrown in. I use this most often coming home and it's my typical route both ways in winter. It's great for sprint training with 12 stoplights, 8 stop signs and a roundabout. Stoplight intervals, baby!

Hills, parks, cemetery and trails route - 10.25 miles
A line of hills form the southern border of the city. I string 'em together. Climb and descend through Cobbs Hill Park, residential streets up and down and up and down along the north face of Pinnacle Hill, climb to Highland Park, descend to Mt. Hope Cemetery, choice of three climbs and a bunch of rollers through the cemetery, cut though University of Rochester's River Campus to Genesee Valley Park, take the Erie Canalway to the west side, double-back on residential streets. I like to take this route to work at least twice a week in the three-seasons.

I'll use it coming home every now and again, but never again during standard time. They close and lock the gates around sunset. I got locked-in once. Had to lift the bike over an eight-foot wrought-iron fence, hang it by the headtube on a spike (fortunately it was the Ti bike so it was light enough to do this, and it has no paint to scratch), climb over the fence myself (no small feat), and lift the bike down from the spike.

Long loop - 16.5 miles
This starts on an arterial heading six miles in the wrong direction (East), I connect with the Erie Canalway using it for about nine miles west, which overshoots work, and I double back for a mile and half on residential streets. In the three seasons I like to use it at least once a week in each direction.

In the cemetery, I get a choice of two cobbled climbs.

The MUP starts right outside my door. I gain 450 feet in 6.9 miles, 6 of which are on the MUP. There are eats, my bank and any other service I might use in close proximity. Even in Vegas, it rarely gets about 80 in the morning and of course my commute is all downhill on the way home. I'm only barely skeptical about riding in today as the high is forecast to be 108. Its shorts to work Spring, Fall and Winter.
Maybe its because I ride in 2 hours before the rest of the world is awake or that I'm on the MUP at 3 minutes after 5 in the evening but there is literally one other people on my route coming or going. Pollution is low and the scenery is stunning. I have the perfect commute.

Don't worry about it. We've had a lot of 105-110 days recently and I've ridden them. Just make sure you have lots of water.

roughly 8 miles to work, 7 home. It's a hilly route with one huge climb on the way in (it's slightly less steep on the 8 mile route) and one huge downhill on the way home. On the way in, the first third is a park, second third are residential streets, last third are main roads with nice, wide, clear paved shoulders to ride on. Reversed on the way home.

You don't want to be in that graveyard after sunset anyway... That's some seriously "Dawn of the Dead" looking stuff!

Just under 10 miles each way. I have two routes that I take depending on the weather and which bike I ride. The routes overlap at the beginning and end and are approximately the same distance.

Route 1 is about 20% residential, 20% road (commuter arteries), and 60% trails, the trails being a mixture of pavement, concrete, gravel, and even wood! It goes through some parks in the city's beautiful river valley, and is quite peaceful in the morning.

Route 2 is about 20% residential, 40% road, and 40% trails. This is the route I do when I ride my road bike as it avoids all gravel. Not nearly as peaceful, but fast, fast, fast.

Both routes go through the river valley, so I have some decent climbs. Route 1 adds a ravine giving me an extra little climb.

My commute is 12.25 miles each way, mostly flat, but with a couple of short, steep hills on the return ride. I ride from Crowley, a small suburb at the south city limits of Fort Worth, to the old part of south Fort Worth.

I ride at dark-thirty in the morning, and start home at 3:30 in the afternoon, but I'm riding an hour earlier than that right now for a couple of weeks, my companie's attempt to save energy during this incredibly hot summer by closing down for the hottest part of the afternoon and early evening.

Almost half my ride is down Crowley Road, a fairly busy 4 lane road, with a paved shoulder. I have to share a lane with motor vehicles for a little over half a mile on another busy road, Sycamore School Road. Most of the rest of the ride is on low traffic neighborhood streets.

My ride to work and return route aren't exactly the same, due to using a one-way service road crossover to get past I-20 on the way to work and a different street altogether to get home, and an inability to turn east on FM 1187 in the morning (without salmoning for a half mile).

My commute route