My slicks arrived yesterday so got them fitted last night ready for the ride in this morning.
Did the same part car/cycle journey. The 9 miles took me 30mins (3 mins faster than my previous best with nobby nics 🙂
Looks rather nice too (apart from the muck)
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There is still room for improvement i think, was a little tired this morning and worked a bit hard at one point and felt a little sick so had to coast 😳
I will see how i get on tonight, thinking i may do the full 16 mile route tomorrow!
Regarding riding on the road, i don't like it too much. I get really pissed off when people pass giving me no room and pulling out of junctions without even realising i'm there. Doing the 9 miles route i cycle alongside a dual carriageway (off the road) and along 30mph roads in town. If i do the full route it will involve 13 miles or so of NSL back roads, which does worry me slightly.
Know what you mean about the other road users.
I bought one of Smudge's Luminator lights and the epileptic mode certainly highlights that I'm there even in daylight. In fact, since using these I have only had one person almost pull out on me and that was a cyclist who didn't look until I shouted.
I'm gradually discovering new routes home, most of which are back roads/farm tracks and sustrans routes. Don't really notice the extra mileage when using these. Grin is bigger though when I arrive home.
Off the bike so far this week as I had a slight headset/maintenance problem at the weekend. Ball bearings everywhere. Cartridge bearings are the way to go. Just praying for Royal Mail to get a wriggle on and deliver my shiny new Hope kit.
17 miles each way.
Thankfully, living in Cheshire its pan flat.
Try and commute as often as I can by bike, unless I'cve got client meetings, or have to be on site..
Doing the 9 miles route i cycle alongside a dual carriageway (off the road) and along 30mph roads in town. If i do the full route it will involve 13 miles or so of NSL back roads, which does worry me slightly.
my usual route involves a singlecarriageway trunk route and i will not lie, it is not pleasant. Feeding my mums cat this week and the detour has taken my commute to 25miles. but it is on back lanes, so much more pleasant, but the way some of the drivers behaviour!!!. It really is a case of knowing which roads are safe, which are dangerous and which are unpleasant. Remember an unpleasant road isn't necessarily a dangerous one.
Just 6 miles each way
Downhill on the way in so not too sweaty by the time I make it to the office. I have a couple of nice alternative gentle off-road options available on which [url= http://flic.kr/p/enFrtR ]this[/url] is more than capable.
18 miles each way, I try to do it once a week but I am a bit of a fair weather rider! I need to MTFU.....
I use a RoadRat for it, there are a couple of hills in the journey but it's the first 5-6 miles from home that get me, the boredom of a cyclepath along the dual carriageway does my head in.
Takes just over an hour, I try to leave at 6am to be in and showered by 7.15. Lucky I can leave at 4pm so I'm normally home by 5.15 at the latest.
7miles each way, singlespeed on a langster I paid £150 for about 4 years ago, running on halo twin rail couriers 700x24,
5 days a week, takes about 25 mins in and 30 minutes back, can do it quicker if I really push it, normally set off an hour before I start, gives me time to freshen up and change ready to start
10 miles each way, with a 300m climb in the middle. Great on the way in, that's a couple of miles you don't have to pedal, and I don't get to work all sweaty. Less good on the way home.
Well... its now a month since this thread started. How are those that started riding to work getting on?
I've been riding my 28 mile commute one way 2 or 3 days a week. My time for the ride has tumbled from 1hr45min to 1hr30min; and I've learned to only time the first 1hr 15mins as the last bit is in traffic so no place to be trying to beat the clock (cooling off time). When I used to ride some of this route with a chain gang 15 years ago using the small ring on the road bike was sign of weakness. One month ago when I started I hardly used the big ring, but now I can do the whole ride in it again. I've lost nearly a stone in weight and am feeling better with more energy despite the extra miles... I'm loving that feeling.
My ride is 28 miles and 1685ft of climbing according to Strava... yes... running Strava on my commute has given me a whole other reason to get up at 5am and hop on the bike and give it some beans. Clmbing that leader board is addictive.
