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Car - 23 miles each way. 40 mins to 1 hour 15 mins depending on traffic.
Bike - 17.5 miles each way. 1 hour +/- a few minutes depending on weather (wind!). Try and do this 3 times a week.
40 miles a day, across London. 128 sets of traffic lights each way. Joy.
15.9 miles each way. Normally 3 times a week as I play other sports on the days I don't ride - i'd be in bits if I did it every day, plus other stuff & riding at the weekend too.
I can't seem to ride it 'slow' no matter how hard I try. I'd love to cruise in and home in around an hour, but it's never happened yet. Broke under the 45 min barrier recently, but it hurt. A lot.
Depends what shift I'm working that week.
6am - 2pm average around 70 miles/ week
2pm - 10pm average around 100m/ week
10pm- 6am average around 0m / week ( I go in the car)
Not to bad considering it's only 3miles to work if I go straight there.
8 miles return.
16 miles there, 20 miles back - every day
12.5 miles each way either MTB or road pretty much the same distance.
previous job was 20 miles each way....
Currently about 10 metres but it used to be a 15 mile each way cycle on the road or a 20 mile each way cycle by towpath.
11 hilly miles each way, 4 days per week.
4 miles each way.
Seven miles there and back, dodging dog walkers on the boring sustrans bike motorway, or nineish miles of proper trail, guess which I prefer!
11 miles each way, [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/in-praise-of-sustrans-and-traffic-free-cycle-paths-photos ]99% off road and traffic free on fantastic Sustrans route through Tyne Riverside Country Park[/url]
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2 or 3 days a week, depending on what shifts the missus is working.
My commute has changed somewhat from earlier in the year. Then.. 3miles to station, 1.5 miles to office & repeat..
Now.. Nothing, all by car and train. Has to be said.. I miss the bike.
Small 16mis each way.
Medium 18mls each way
Large 20mls each way.
Combinations of med/large over spring/summer and small/med in autumn/winter.
Monday-Friday. Apart from depths of winter.
They are quiet scenic routes and I never forget how lucky I am .
I love my commute 🙂
10 miles each way, every day. 50% road, 50% Taff trail through Cardiff. Can do the journey quicker on the bike than I can in the car (and yes I stop at red lights!) 😀
6.3 miles each way.
On the bike every day. Dying a bit now after an hour of 5-a-side at lunch and a 13 mile night ride just now.
12.2 miles on national cycle network 'roads'
10.5 miles with a bit of off road (summer route only as I found oxfordshire mud broke my mudguards today!)
10 miles by car. Cycle in about 2 days a week currently, going to up it.
an all to short 3.5 miles each way, but sometimes take the long route in which is 12 miles
4 miles each way for me.
35 miles each way. I'd ride it but I can't be arsed with that especially with early shifts. I spend so much on petrol. Would love a short commute, but not in my current job location!
23.5 miles each way by car ...... but hoping by the end of today , that will be 1.7 miles by bike as Ive an interview later closer to home 😀
1.2 miles downhill to work, 3.5 miles uphill back home twice a day five days a week, I work a split shift,
7 miles each way, which is pretty much perfect. Takes less than 30 mins on the SS and is mostly on bike path. I count myself lucky.
About three miles each way, mostly on traffic free purpose built cycleways. 🙂
19.5 miles to work
20 home (avoid busy road)
At the moment I'm only doing one way, and getting the train home which trims 15-16 miles off the return leg.
Mine is 24 miles each way. Only do it from April to July three times a week, any more and I am to tired to go out a club run or do any mountain biking at the weekend.
Pretty busy trunk road, so it's not the nicest journey.
GrahamS you are one luck man.
5 and a half on the road. Just over 6 off road. However, I usually get tempted to take detours off road, so it can end up closer to 7 or 8.
5 miles road.
10 miles on the dot each way
GrahamS you are one luck man.
Cheers, I know 😀
Closeness to that route was a major plus point when we were looking for a house.
It's also why I'm so keen on [i]proper[/i] off-road provisions for all cyclists* - I wouldn't be riding to work if I had to chance it on the A-road and I suspect neither would most of the people I see on it.
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(* as well as, not instead of, proper on-road provision of course)
ive only cycled my commute a couple of time. 56 mile round trip and 6000ft of climbing means its not really an everyday thing...
About a mile, it's not worth getting the bike out really. The childminders run is about a 3 mile round trip twice a week and its easier to put hoppy jr in the bike trailer than the car.
Anything between 13 steps & 250 miles this week.
None on the bike though.
ive only cycled my commute a couple of time. 56 mile round trip and 6000ft of climbing means its not really an everyday thing...
Man up, that sounds fine, split in half, less than 2 hours per journey, great way to start the day! Do it one day, drive/train home, ride in/train home. That's what I do when I ride all the way to London.
i've done it like that in the summer, but dartmoor gets a bit wild for that in the winter...
10 miles each way, rain or shine
but ive got today and tmorrow on the tube instead as im racing on sunday and i find my legs have trouble if ive cycled all week!
or if ive got a weekend trip i always tube it on the friday
34K each way - if i went trunk road it would be 22K but i aint going down the a96!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15 miles each way, pretty hilly with 1200 ft of climbing each way. The road in the morning, which is quiet roads for the main, so far from unpleasant. This is the extended 20 mile off-road return journey....
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Or one of them. I've a choice of great routes. Its hellish!!! 😀
So jealous of all you guys above with nice commutes. Mine is 11 miles each way from Ashton to Salford Quays through the centre of Manchester battling with the rush hour traffic, but I still love it. Like someone said above, it wakes you up in the morning and de-stresses you on the way home. My route is also slightly downhill on the way in to work and uphill on the way back (who'd have thought it), which is nice. At the moment it is taking me about 50mins on the way in and an hour on the way back (stop-start due to traffic lights/busses/people stepping out in front of me/cars blocking the cycle lanes etc etc) on a singlespeed road bike.
So jealous of all you guys above with nice commutes.
I'd urge everyone to spend a good bit of time thoroughly investigating possible routes using the [url= http://www.sustrans.org.uk/ ]Sustrans online mapping[/url], [url= http://www.cyclestreets.net ]CycleStreets journey planner[/url] and a even bit of scouting about in spare time.
IMO it is well worth taking a route that is 5-10 minutes longer if it means you are out of busy traffic and can have a nice enjoyable relaxing cycle instead of a stressful bum-clencher.
You may not have anything of course. Cycling provision is famously crap in this country (I lived near Manchester for a while and it was hard to get anywhere useful without going on a motorway, so you're probably stuffed stormtrooper).
All the more reason to [url= http://www.sustrans.org.uk/support-sustrans/become-a-supporter ]become a Sustrans supporter[/url], as they are one of the few charities that actually seem to be making some progress on the ground.
GrahamS just to rub it in, is it well drained and non muddy in the wet aswell?
13 each way on or offroad, off does get muddy tho so not done it much this year 🙁
20 miles each way between 3 and 5 days a week on the bike. Traffic free for 12 miles then urban traffic after that. Wouldn't want to do much further, or much shorter for that matter.
GrahamS just to rub it in, is it well drained and non muddy in the wet aswell?
Erm.. actually... not so much... no
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snap graham - i drop onto the deeside way for 10k about 2k from my door and then cut through parks etc on the edge of the city- keeping off the roads was a primary concern when we bought our gaff.
+1 to what Graham is saying. Spend some time looking at a map, or just nipping up side streets & paths - you'll be surprised at what you might find. I've found nice quiet routes into the cycling wastelands of Bradford & Drighlington, so it's possible! 🙂