I kind of hate the term "Commuting"

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11-25-13 | 10:40 PM

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blackhawknj

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"Commuting" to me has conotations of anything but driving to work. So I find it's the right term for me.

11-25-13 | 11:39 PM

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Seeing as this is a bike forum the name works.

11-26-13 | 12:12 AM

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How about a word from other languages, OP is in Texas, how about 1 in Spanglish?

11-26-13 | 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by fietsbob

How about a word from other languages, OP is in Texas, how about 1 in Spanglish?

Commutador ?

11-26-13 | 08:24 AM

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Remember the trend to say "time-shift" rather than "record" when it came to recording TV shows for later viewing? I suggest replacing "commuting" with "geo-shifting" such as, "I geo-shifted by bike this morning". Other ideas: pedal-estrianated, pedal-pushed, velocipedalled, veloci-raftered, zipped, spoked, spun, salmoned (well, that's a no-no) ninja-ed (also a no-no) bicycled, "two-wheeled it", "reduced my carbon ass-print", "circus-bear'ed it", cranked, cranked-it, cadence-managed, velocentrized, velo-muted, propelled-myself, HPV'd it (sorry purists), "gave the finger to the oil companies", "refused to join the auto-centric scrum", Pee-Wee'd it, vele-ported, "fahrrad-ed it", "fahrradinated", "beat traffic" and "enjoyed my ride".

11-26-13 | 08:45 AM

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...and, oh yeah..."randoneurred."

11-26-13 | 09:38 AM

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Maybe : 'Place Shuttled' ..

11-26-13 | 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by fietsbob

How about a word from other languages, OP is in Texas, how about 1 in Spanglish?

In most Germanic languages, it has the same route as Pendulum.

Once again, the Germanic languages are more precise

11-26-13 | 12:48 PM

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Like this one ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum ?

11-26-13 | 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Andy_K

Riding a bicycle to work is one of those activities that most people don't seem to have a mental category to contain. Pretty much no matter how you describe it some people will assume that you can't possibly mean what it sounds like you mean.

this is exactly why i like the term "bike commuting". in my circle, everyone knows i ride a bike at this point. i just got deep into it this summer and i talk alot about it, ride alot of places. When I say bike commute, people start to digest just how much i ride - because i work far enough away that people unfamiliar with how easy it is to travel 10 miles or so by bike is think its a feat - and they digest that i do it that much, every day (actually, about 3 days per week on average - but i play it up). one of the neighborhood mom's has seen me riding from her car (on her commute) and i think it gets her a little moist. "wow - i can't believe i saw you riding on such a cold/hot day. you must really be getting in shape!" i get to hear from her, right in front of her fat husband. i know it burns him up, too - and that's the best part.

but people that rarely ride really have no clue how easy it is. i tell people i rode from wildwood to antlantic city on labor day weekend. and they're like holy **** - are you crazy? but google it - it's like 35 miles. in other words, a nice afternoon, especially since i had the wind to my back and stopped for "refreshment" in sea isle city along the way.

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