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..and if so, how long is your journey each way and how long does it take you?
I'm due to start a new job in the Salford Quays area tomorrow and will be commuting from Sale which is about seven miles each way. The traffic down the main road is horrendous at rush hour so I reckon it will take a lot less time for me to cycle to work that it would to drive there.
My commute is 7 miles, but it is mostly off road tow path and only takes me 30 minutes.
Yes, 5 miles, 22m in (uphill), 25m home (downhill).
I could get the bus, but riding is so much nicer & cheaper.
4 miles each way, 10-15 minutes depending on traffic, the weather or if I am knackered from the weekend.
For me 7 miles is about as much as I would want to do. I ave done a 7 mile commute in the past.
old commute was 15 miles, then did one of 4 miles for a bit, now it is 7 miles.
15 was a good ride, but felt a bit too long when doing it every day - especially if the weather was bad.
4 was too short... it felt silly getting all dressed up for it, but if I didn't wear proper kit I froze (did it over winter).
7 is a nice distance. Not too long to feel like a chore, but long enough that it feel like you've done some exercise and woken up.
Dave
7 miles sounds great.
Mines about 15, depending on the route & takes about 55mins. For various reasons I've only been able to do it once a week for the past month and I'm getting a bit grumpy. I hate sitting in traffic.
8 miles (each way)
45 mins in the morning.
55 mins in the evening.
(i live at the top of a dirty great big hill)
I do 7 miles in 30 minutes.
Just over 4 miles each way (longer route on way home), takes approx 15 mins.
5 miles / 20 mins. Takes as long to sort the kit out at each end!
I sometimes jog instead as that takes 45 mins with no bike fettling.
2.5 miles. 10 mins with a honkin uphill to begin with then down the rest of the way in.
Going home is about 3 miles. Can't be arsed with the hill on the way home 🙂 Which is weird, cos I'll then get on the MTB or road bike and put in a hilly ride in the peaks...
everyday, rain or shine. Only take the car if I need to transport something bigger than will go in the pannier or strap to the pannier rack.
If you plan to ride in work attire, I recommend using a pannier - much nicer than arriving at work with a sweaty back as induced by a rucksack.
3.5 miles each way by road / cycle path - 15 mins...
I've started tracking my commute rides with strava, and I've set a couple of private segments along the way (plus a couple of public ones on sections which make sense to do that).
I find its really helped my motivation to push the speed up; knowing that i'm racing against the clock to try to get a PB 🙂
Dave
12 miles each way, about an hour usually doddering along, 40 minutes if I'm in a serious hurry. I stopped using my commute as a time trial a long time ago. 'Commuter racing' is just tragic too, IMO!
I used to live in Sale a long while back. As I recall my local signed leisure ride took me past the sewage works. Lovely.
6.5 miles of very wet and muddy canal towpath. 40 minutes in, 50 minutes home (I live at the top of a 16-lock flight)
times decrease to 25 / 35 minutes in summer when it's bone dry and I'm fitter
used to be about 5/6 miles across Edinburgh - was about 25/30 minutes on way in, 35/40 return (basically down to sea level with couple of bumps in between).
It was an ideal distance I reckon, sometimes extended it by going long way round cycle paths but always about same journey time.
As above, used to stay only 2 miles from work and that was just too much bother to get togged up, bike locked away &c.
now it's 12 ft commute to the shed.
twice a week depending on commitments and weather. 20 miles so 1hour 15 ish
i do 12 km each way - most days takes ~35/40 mins.
occasinally come in from the GFs which double the distance to 25 km each way. takes ~ an hour.
Yes
32 - 40 miles RT,depending which route I take.
Find a route that you like and do it.
I love my commute , it's the best way in the world to keep base fitness( even in this weather :-))
45 miles each way, done one morning, then the next evening. 2.25-2.5 hours.
Ours is about 2 miles, takes about 5 - 7 minutes to get in, pretty much all downhill, depending on the traffic lights, and takes me about 10 minutes to get home due to being feeble when going uphill.
One of us goes normally goes back at lunchtime as well to see t'boy, so up to six miles a day in total. Got the bus in today though because the weather is atrocious and we don't have showers or drying facilites here.
6 miles in (downhill) 8 miles home (uphill, but not as bad a climb as it would be to do the 'in' journey in reverse). Love it, get grumpy if extreme weather means I can't ride. The idiots in cars you meet are, however, a completely different issue (and thread).
Cant commute as its too far....but as Ive been working from home lately ive been doing an early morning ride before work on my road bike bought through the cycle to work scheme....does this count?
7miles should be a doddle after a few weeks acclimatising. Road will be quick but couldn't you go down the canal for a more relaxed ride in? From the map it looks like it takes you pretty much all the way to the quays from sale
bwoolymbr - Don't commute on the road from Sale to Salford. The Washway is bloody lethal. I used to do that journey in reverse from Chorlton to Alty
Pick up the canal at Sale, carry on past Stretford on the canal and hang a right over the bridge before you hit Trafford Park. You'll follow the tram lines past the back of Old Trafford. You're actually by the Quays then with no road involved
Most of that canal towpath has been recently surface too, so no mud. You see the odd couple of dog walkers, and people fishing. Its a really pleasant commute. And obviously really flat. You'll be there in less than half an hour, easy
Oh... and I commute 15 miles each way on't bike at the moment, 2 or 3 times a week. When I did the 7 mile commute from Chorlton to Altrincham, I did it every day
anotherdeadhero - Member
I stopped using my commute as a time trial a long time ago. 'Commuter racing' is just tragic too, IMO!
Beaten by lycra'd up fatties too often?
I bet you think track stands at lights are naff too!
Depends on the weather and where I am working. If I know im in the office and will be the day after then ill usually bike in.
6 mins going, 5 mins coming back, 2 miles each way.
20 miles each way, takes between an hour and an hour and a half depending on the wind. Average is 70 minutes.
Beaten by lycra'd up fatties too often?I bet you think track stands at lights are naff too!
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Track stands ARE tragic, unless you're properly good on a proper fix.
Track sitting (i.e. half decent balance) at lights is where its at.
14 and a bit miles each way, 87% off-road, usually about 1 hour 15 in the morning and a bit longer in the evening.
Not today as I was hypothermic when I got home on Monday, poor clothing choice by me and extremely foul weather. Trail is getting a bit cut up due to the wet though.
Track stands are epic bell-endery. If you think anyone is impressed by them, then you're as sadly delusional as the average half-wit at the first set of auditions for the X Factor 😉
so do I have to practice in my backyard til I'm good enough or can I use alllllll that wasted time at traffic lights to get some practice in?Track stands ARE tragic, unless you're properly good on a proper fix.
Seated trackstanding I'm having trouble with, possible with a freewheel or do you really need fixed?
Anyway the point of trackstanding is not having to unclip, not showing off, so not much point devoting too much time to tracksitting is there?
10.5 miles each way through London. About 35 mins
My cleats would wear out in days if I didn't track sit!
see my previous post 🙂Track stands are epic bell-endery. If you think anyone is impressed by them
Mine's about 50 mins from door to desk direct and a bit slower on the way home. Aim for 3 times per week depending on how much pedalling I might be doing at the weekend.
Summer time return journeys can be 2-3 hours if I take in a few cheeky trails in the way home 🙂
8 miles each way. 30 mins there, 40 back (uphill). It's a great commute on bike lanes through a park (in Melbourne) and along a river and I love it. But I wouldn't want to go much further as I do feel tired at the end of the week, perhaps because I'm unable to just pootle it.
FWIW I'd rather go out of my way on traffic-free paths than share the road with rush-hour drivers.
12 miles each way, twice a week normally. Average 48 minutes on a SS commuter but that does include a climb over the Cambridge Alps (Lime Kiln Hill) 😀
Nearly always a headwind in one direction.
Track stands ARE tragic, unless you're properly good on a proper fix
Ha ha ha ha ha..
Commuting taught me how to track stand .
Once you start playing the 'can't put your foot down/hang on to anything game*
[s]Track sitting[/s] commuter racing (i.e. with half decent [s]balance[/s] riders) [s]at lights[/s] is where its at.
*Only applicable in busy towns and cities
😀
I do 8-9 miles in the morning, with a couple of short decent hills, and usually 5 in the afternoon - pretty much every day im at work come rain shine or the white slidy stuff...
Fortunately very little is actually on road - ive got a cycle path that runs the full length of the seafront so 7 miles of the ride is on that.
Back in the day when I cycled everywhere (I didn't have a car) on my mountain bike.
My commute was 21 miles each way (hilly and weather always variable) and my best time was 54 minutes. I'd regularly do it in under an hour.
Today - I estimate it would take me twice that lol
16.5 each way, takes anything between 40mins and 1hr10, the usual route is very open so the wind makes a huge difference.
try to do it 3-4 times a week, not today for some reason....
just restarted.
tried several routes from my old house through the countryside but died of boredom more than anything and it felt really long despite only being an hour and 45
new commute is 1 hour each way circa 15 miles depending on route.
can do it full offroad in 11miles or on cycle paths and through parks and housing estates for 15.
actually loving it again compared to my old commute which was a chore i look forward to getting up for this one.
oh and this morning it was biblical horizontal rain so i was very glad that i have to pick up a desk straight after work 😀
My commute was a tad over 15 miles. Fastest time was 46mins slowest excepting punctures was 65 minutes on a mountain bike. That's a very traffic heavy urban route so quite a lot of junctions and traffic lights to slow you down, not very hilly though.