flamingo: where are you commuting to/from?

I used to commute from UT to the other side of DT, down Riverside. Downtown ~5:00pm is about the only time there's real grid-lock traffic (can split lanes). Now I work 4 blocks away, but still ride my bike : )

that's what mine would be now if i were still commuting. I recently switched jobs and had to give up my sweet 24 mile roundtrip commute:( I just couldn't do 60 R/T plus the gym everyday and the gym is more important to me at this point. Props if you can swing it.

13 mile round trip, which is about all the time i can afford on weekdays. *sigh*

12 miles each way, on a bike trail... i get kind of annoyed with it sometimes -- it's not street riding, which is fun, it's just a trail, and there's tons of intersections

i also do brooklyn (red hook) to 40 street 5th ave.

van brunt to union to clinton to tillary to manhatten bridge to allen to first ave to 39 st to fifth ave (against traffic 1 block). i guess thats about 15 miles. on the way back i mix it up a bit more and ussually take the brooklyn bridge via broadway. somedays i cheat, lock my bike near the f train on smith street (with two locks) and pray its there when i get home.

I'd be buggin out all day at work if I had to do that. Why not just take it on the train with you, and lock it in/outside your work?
This way you could also check up on it periodically..

people get SO annoyed if you bring it on the train durring rush hour. i know i am jinxing myself by saying this, but so far i have good luck in brooklyn with locking up my bike in general over the years. it seems to me that most people get their bikes stolen in manhatten. also, the bike i lock up is not my babie. its a beater and i would be very upset if it got stolen, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. the bike i am building up now is a different story. still most days, i don't leave it on the street.

wow, nine! I bet I see you sometimes! What do you ride? I'm a 6'3" guy who until last week rode a langster (now a red soma rush) with silver shimano shoes. I wonder if I see people from here on the street sometimes.

Do you ride on the right or left side of 1st ave? I do the right, which sucks from the busses, but almost no one turns right off 1st.

17 miles in then 13 miles on the return trip. It is on the WOD trail and it is ok. I prefer it to the street, although I enjoy the dicing once in DC. It is a challenge to keep the gear turning over all the little rollers on the trail. 30 miles each way IMHO is too much to do everyday. Maybe if you did it every third workday or every other day or Monday/Friday or Tuesday/Thursday. Every day, fine if you have no life at all and somebody does your laundry, cleans for you, and prepares your meals, not to mention irons your clothes. I mean it could be done, but you'd have little energy left for other things.

20 miles round trip, but now that spring is officially here and the fair weather commuting kooks are out in droves I'm going to find a different way home. Can I tell you what I hate?? When I pass an effing KOOK in jeans and white tennies with his seat a foot too low and he spins and spins and spins to get ahead of the girl who passed him only to bonk 10ft in front of me and I have to go around his fat ass again. Repeat 30x/day on the way home with other various kooks.

Note to kooks: if you're passed by a girl on a pink bike w/o gears, get the eff over yourself and accept it. :rolleyes:

Bwahahah. Too funny. I'm starting to see some of them too, except I'm not a girl and don't get that kind of behaviour.

harlot, do you ride on the b-g trail? we joke about the "burke-gilman races." many people out there trying to prove something. and i can't believe all the people that draft...

Yes habitus, this is the B-G I'm speaking of here, but I've seen it all over too. It's just more concentrated there. Like an effing cattle drive. Last week I was dorking around and this middle aged guy with hairy legs on a souped up Cervelo in full tri-gear zooms past me and I'm like, "DUDE you on the effing BURKE-GILMAN bike trail!!! Paris is the other way!" Geez people.

seriously. and that's the thing about the trails. you have everyone from little kids on their trikes to weekend warriors trying to pass as many people as they can (including those kiddies on their trikes). people are gonna get upset. i figure i should take my anger out on drivers, not other bikers.

Yeah I'm tired of getting sneared at and near misses and the wanna-bees. Not worth it. I'm gonna go home down Lake WA Blvd, through the bike tunnel, downtown and home. It's longer, but at least cars are more predictable.

i stay to the right as well. yeah, everytime i see someone on a fixed gear i wonder if it might be somebody on here.

I'm on the Burke most days, 25th&55th down to Montlake, U bridge, or sometimes Fremont. I like to find a good pace and just get in the zone and stay there. I don't like: dodging soccer moms on their [cruisers riding|power walking] side by side chatting and oblivious that they're taking the whole trail. The spandyclists usually aren't too bad, unless they're trying to pass where there's already traffic. The B-G is best early early morning (before polluted with udub-ers).

Word. The B-G is an ideal place for zoning out on the bike, esp after work or a hangover in the morning. I hate it when the throngs of people make me think.

60 miles RT is a lot. Even if you could do it time is the real issue. Even if you maintain a 30mph speed it will still take a hr. I bet it would in reality take 1.5-2 hrs to get to work.

I commute 12 miles on Mon & Wed, 6 on Tues & Thurs. Thats 36 total not including pleasure rides. Maybe 50-60 a week for me.