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Just curious to see how long it takes folks to commute to work?
How long before its 'too long' and wastes too much of your day, where do you draw the line?
Does the method of transport influence your decision?
Currently my commute is 10 minutes in the car or 40 minutes by bike but I am looking at new jobs where the journey could be anything up to an hour in the car/on teh train!
About 7 feet.
When I did commute it averaged 100-120 miles (each way). Generally used a car, sometime a bike (no, not one with pedals). Only did that for 5 years though.
Working from home is less hassle. If I had to commute again by road, that would be fine. I wouldn't commute by train though. That would do my head in.
EDIT: 3 hours is the point where I start thinking of staying over.
How far is that? 10 mins by car and 40 mins by bike seems a huge difference! Is that on a BmX?
Mine is between 25 and 25 mins by car (traffic dependent), 35-40 mins by bike (leg fatigue/wind dependent)
About 11-12 miles.
Anything more than an hour I don't think I would consider.
My commute was 18 miles each way and was doable on the bike most days except in the ice and snow.
Now it is still 18 miles but through the city centre or 25 miles the nice scenic route. As I work all sorts of weird shifts and start times and never know when I am going to go home I can now only cycle on days that I know are a guaranteed finish before the thieving gits and druggies hit the city ctreets. Otherwise it makes for a very long day with an hours commute both ways.
15 minutes by bike-some tough climbs/fun hills too.
3.5 miles and 7 round trip.
When i'm going to the office it's 40 minutes in the car, then another 30 minutes on the train.
Dunfermline>Larbert>Glasgow
20 miles each way for the normal scenic route or 18 miles on the direct 'shit I've over'slept run!
Normally do 12 hour shift work, so 2 days of cylcing in, car for the 1st night shift, then bike for the last night shift with 4 days off.
However this week I've been on perm 8 hour days , so cycled in all week, and I must admit to being a tadge kippered last night on the way home...
16.5 miles. It takes me 1hr 15mins on the way in and 1hr back home. I work weird shifts so can't do it everyday. When I have to drive it really, really annoys me. I find nice warm kit, good lights and good food help tremendously.
8 hilly miles ish each way - I ride a couple of times a week.
I'm a summertime only commuter as the rural roads I have to use are far too dangerous in the dark winter months.
It's 15 miles in & 15 miles home. It takes 40mins by car & my best time in was 45mins on the bike with a force 10 gale up my chuff. It's more uphill on the way home & my best time was 59mins.
Mine can be anything from about 35 mins to 1 hr each way depending on the traffic.
Although when working from our other offices (1 perhaps 2 days a week) it is 4 hours each way by combination of car, train, airplane and taxi. 🙁
6 miles 5 of which is off road.
my commute is usaly 10 to 15 mins my bike and 15 to 20 mins by car (cos of trafic... it is only about 3.2 miles.
Sometimes i take the long way round if i am going on my bike that gives me a commute of 15 miles
26 miles and 40 minutes by car. Keep thinking I should drive half and ride half but it's a busy A road in a rural area so not so sure about my life expectancy if I head down that road (scuse the pun)
5 miles, 20 minutes by bike, never driven it, 40 minutes by metro (train) because it involves walking to the station and waiting for a change.
Depending on weather / energy / state of the roads between 40 minutes and 2 hours+ on the bike followed by between 30 and 55 minutes by train into London and then 5 minutes from London Bridge to the office. In terms of mileage - on the bike it's between 12 and 30+ miles each way, I've a variety of routes on mainly rural lanes through Kent and Sussex so can pretty much tailor it to how I'm feeling or what I want to do (ie hilly, high intensity ride but short distance or longer, flatter ride)
I've been commuting up to London for coming on 10 years but only been doing the riding part for the last 18 months or so. Previously it would be a drive to the station. Decided to sell the car and get back on the bike and I'm somewhat fitter and a whole lot happier as a result...
40 mins by car
95 mins by bike (rare)
average about an hour driving to do 22 miles each way...hate it....only carry on because I can now work at home 2 days per week.
45 mins would be my limit. Currently 21 miles 2/3 of which is hilly. Takes 35 mins by car 1hr 15mins by bike.
My neighbour commutes to London by car, train and tube and it takes him 2 hrs each way- rather him than me.
17.5 miles each way by bike. A bit longer by car cos I use the motorway for a short section.
It takes an hour by bike going in (mostly downhill), bit longer coming home (mostly uphill). In a car it can take anywhere between 40 mins aand 2hrs, you never know.
I much prefer to ride in. Usually do it on road but there is an off-road route too. I used it when it was snowy and I'll use it in summer on the CX but in winter it's too muddy most of the time and it takes about 90mins as well.
26km each way, can't be bothered to convert to miles for the prehistoric measurements lot.
As with Crazy Legs, mostly down on the way in and up on the way home. Takes around 40 mins in and an hour home. About 20 mins longer each way offroad.
Driving takes anywhere from 30 to 90 mins, train takes an hour and a quarter, if connections are on time.
DezB-I have to go a different route by bike plus I add abit on thats off road to make it a little more fun! No idea on distance.....
13 miles each way. Ranges from 30 mins in the car when schools are off to over an hour (currently) I could ride that quiker but we don't have any shower facilities
Basic home->office commute is 5miles. 25 mins on the bike or anywhere between 7mins and 1.5hrs in the car.
I also do most of my meetings and site work on the bike, so can easily knock up 30+mile days once or twice a week.
Currently I am doing just under 60 miles each way. It's not great, but luckily is straight down a fairly clear stretch of the A1.
Quickest time was about 1hr 5mins or so & longest has been about 2hrs (when there's accidents).
Wanted somewhere close to home this time, but after 6 months redundant I couldn't really say not to the job.
When the weather starts picking up, I think I will find somewhere 10-15 miles from work & cycle the rest of the way in to get some miles in my legs - but that relies on me waking up even earlier!!
about 12 miles each way. Takes about 45 mins on average.
15 miles each way, and usually takes me 50 minutes in heavy traffic on the bike; but in Surrey It's often a re-creation of Deathrace 2000!
Stumpy01-what part of the A1 is that on out of interest?
GKW.....join it at P'boro services and go all the way down to Baldock Services.....main slow points are the roundabouts at Sandy & the Black Cat roundabout.
The 50/60 mph sections don't help either!
almost 500 metres 🙂
about 40-50 mins whether car or bike about 25 miles round trip bit hilly.
Find that about right as it is long enough to always be doing 100 miles per week usually more.
12 miles between 40 and 55 minutes on average 3 times a week.
Available options are currently:
5 miles road
8-10 miles, mostly off road
13-25 miles road
No car now so I'll be riding every day. Loving it tbh, but not well at the moment so having to do the short route 🙁
I did do a 2 hour each way rail commute for a year and a half, I read a lot but it was still hard work getting in at 9 each night.
Hehe, there is a ladybird on my mouse 🙂
55 miles along the M8.
I wouldn't recommend it.
50 miles and one hour each way.
50 miles of nightmare driving on the M3 and M25, with far too many average speed cameras to make it possible to get home in less than an hour any more 👿
Mine is 9 miles. 35 mins on bike....between 30-50 in car depending on time of day.
See 1 STW member on the way there or back most days...
'bout ten/fifteen minutes, depending on whether I walk or ride. About 3/4 mile.
3 miles each way.
It's quite funny, we're moving office to one 4 miles from its current location. Half the staff there live locally, now they're all up and arms about their "terrible" commutes that will take up to 20 minutes, and how this is a union matter. I sympathise a wee bit but FFS, right now they have incredible commuters, soon they'll have very good commutes instead.
currently live 150miles from work ish, in 5 weeks who knows as that is when i am redundant.
Car 25 mins on empty roads, 35 in rush hour. 45 on the SS (without being a **** at traffic lights)
45 miles each way 120 min plus each day for 130 days a year, travel abroad for another 140ish days
40 miles each way on the M6 into Birmingham- on average 1.5 hours each way- been doing it for 15 years -starting to get a bid fed up!
Sometimes bike 13 miles to station and 35min train ride but needs alot of organisation
less than 10 mins on the bike, don't even think about taking the car.
looking at moving and I reckon 10 mile each way on the bike is about right, I'm too close at the mo.
It's quite funny, we're moving office to one 4 miles from its current location. Half the staff there live locally, now they're all up and arms about their "terrible" commutes that will take up to 20 minutes, and how this is a union matter. I sympathise a wee bit but FFS, right now they have incredible commuters, soon they'll have very good commutes instead.
If it's changing from being a commute they can walk to one they have to get in a car for, that's far bigger an issue than you're making out.
Currently driving 45 miles each way to my normal place of work but I'm away from home for three days a week for the foreseeable furture now, 150 miles there, 150 miles back.
If I'm still there in summer I'll be commuting by bike to my normal office, that's 90 miles a day. So I win everything.
ride bike for just over an hour each way (circa 30k each way)
Or take the Subway for 1.15..
Or go by car, around 1.40
During nice days, I come back via the Hills, and add another 20k to the loop.
note.. I talk in Km, as it is all in Km here
15 miles each way crossing the Quantock Hills, I work 12 shifts (2 days, 2 nights, 5 days off) so with an just under an hours cycle each way it makes for a long shift and I don't do it as often as I should.
But there are upsides:- [url= http://davedibble5930.fotopic.net/c186336.html ]My commute.[/url]
Mine takes 50mins to an hour by train - involving ~20mins walk to the station (+extra time to buy a ticket), about 14mins on the train, then ~10 mins in the company minibus.
Or 30 mins if my flatmate drives!
Current commute can be anywhere from 20mins to 3 hours - covering the whole of scotland is a right pain 🙂
however, as of a weeks time, commute is 45 miles (dunfermline-dundee) - all motorway/dual carriageway - should be about 40mins.
Previously commuted 17 miles to Glenrothes for 12 years - 15 mins in car. When I looked at public transport, it would have meant travelling for 90 mins because of finishing times/bus schedule on the way home 😕
10 miles takes a little under 40 minutes.
Car takes 25 mins or more depending on traffic.
It's only about 10 mins if I go the direct route, between 2-3 miles. In the summer though I'll go home the long way and ride all the way around the island (Guernsey) which takes just over an hour - 22 miles
I'm about 3.5-4 miles to the office, depending on route. Usually takes about 8 minutes in the car.
The office is about 100m lower than the house so on the bike it's under 15 minutes on the way to work and a bit over 20 on the way back.
8 miles = 10 mins in car and 25 mins on bike going and 30 mins coming.
61 miles each way....
Current record is 52mins (not on a bike)
80 mile round trip
40 mins -45 mins each way
car
currently 13 miles each way.
45 mins on bike, 20 mins by car.
twice a week at the moment on t'bike. unless conditions are horrendous.
spending MUCH more time in the gym this winter - s'pose it's the soft option as I turned 40 in December 😯
Walk 200m get on bike and thats me at work 🙂
This thread is inspiring me to do the 25 mile round trip by bike when I change jobs from looking at peoples huge riding distances!
You guys on road bikes?
sort of - specialized tricross comp here. stunningly versatile commuting machine !
62 miles each way 2/3 times a week. Try and ride to station (25 mile return, longer in the summer when I will get off "earlier" on the way home) at least once a week.
Last 6 miles into brum in the car is 'orrid. But I go early/leave early by car so about 1hr10. Bike is more like 2 hours with the train but who wants to get to work early if they don't have too 🙂
I find it odd that people "move closer to work". I love where we live, and accept the commute although I wouldn't do it 5 days a week. I reckon it evens out with WFH 2/3 days.
London tho. That's a sh!t. Get up 4:50, get home 20:50 if the train isn't late. Once a week worse case. Grim.
This thread is inspiring me to do the 25 mile round trip by bike when I change jobs from looking at peoples huge riding distances!You guys on road bikes?
Not sure if I qualify for the 'huge distance' but nope, not on a road bike for my commute. Airnimal Joey folding bike (has to be folding for the train)
Hour on the bike, hour on the train.
About 6 minutes off-road downhill on the bike (in the car it takes up to 15 minutes as I have to take a long detour!) but after a whole day teaching people skills the climb up back home can take 20 minutes! Not complaining though!
This thread is inspiring me to do the 25 mile round trip by bike when I change jobs from looking at peoples huge riding distances!You guys on road bikes?
Sometimes 🙂 I used to rarely do about a 28 mile round trip offroad from a different house. That was fun, but there are no showers at work... You should give it a go, but 25 miles would be much easier on a road bike, and consequently more fun as you can go fast.
That was fun, but there are no showers at work...
Makes a BIG difference being able to get under a hot shower when it's been pishing it down and you're cold and sodden.
You should give it a go, but 25 miles would be much easier on a road bike, and consequently more fun as you can go fast.
+1 - I'd love to be able to do my commute on a road bike if only to see what difference it'd make to my times, especially in the summer. That said there's a lot to be said for a rohloff and magura HS33's when it comes to winter maintenance 🙂
Currently about 17 miles Bath-Bristol via the wonderful Railway Path (although it gets a bit of a drag in the depths of winter and I vary the route).
Often takes longer in the car. 1'40 last week.
Longest commute was daily into London (from Bath) only did it for 6 months. That was long enough.
I live 15 miles from work.
To get in for 9 takes about 55 mins by train (10 mins walk/ 30 min train/ 15 mins walk), an hour and 10 by car but parking is about £15 a day so almost never do that
Can ride it in 45 mins on a very good day (strong tailwind and light traffic), usually a smidge over 50 in and an hour to an hour 10 or so on way home depending on wind as I live 15 miles west and 100m higher than work.
Only ride all the way in summer - rural backroads or busy and narrow A road doesn't appeal at night.
Often drive to P&R on edge of Edinburgh and ride in (20 mins) and home (20 mins to an hour depending on route I take) plus 30 mins in morning and about 15 in evening by car.
Wouldn't want to live much further from work tbh.
210 miles each way (one way on a Sunday and t'other on a Friday), takes about 3.5 hours.
Then for the rest of the week 9 miles each way on bike, takes about 35/40 minutes through central London.
30 miles ew
50-60 minutes by car
1hr 50mins on the rare occasions I bike it.
It would be a lot quicker by car or bike if I didn't need to go through Bristol.
50 miles each way, though I do spend a fair bit of time not in the office.
wouldn't go any further. works out about 1h10m though has taken 3 hours.
I miss my commute by bike 🙁
12 miles - 30 minutes driving, 45 minutes cycling. Annoyingly our office is relocating a further 5 miles away. The worst part is that means about 10 miles of the route will be in built up urban areas with lots of traffic lights, traffic, junctions. Dreading it. It will make for a very slow drive or a long, probably not enjoyable, bike ride. Public transport doesn't even bear thinking about - walk, bus, train, metro, walk would take about 3.5 hours a day and cost about £10.
20-25 minutes by bike.
On a good day I can go door to door in 2 mins. Yeah, I live on the same bit of road as my office. By the end of the year I'm hoping to have moved and having anything up to about a 10 mile each way commute, who knows where the housing hunt will take me, watch this space as I post up here asking for location, mortgage, solictor and buying advice!
8 Miles. On public transport, Bus+DLR, or Bus+Train+DLR, or Bus+Different Train+DLR all take 1 hour, This morning jogging it took 1 hour 11 minutes, if I can just get a bit fitter......
8 miles by car = 25 minutes
12 miles by bike = 1hr 30 minutes
11 miles each way (about 7 on canal towpath, 4 on road), ride every day.
Usually ride it on a 48:16 fixed gear, 35 mins is my record when the towpath's dry and hard, can take nearly 50 mins when its wet and sludgy. Taking the road all the way and the road bike can get it down to half an hour, but its far less pleasant. SS hardtail in the snow can take an hour!
Never driven it at commute time nor taken the bus. Train station is about a 25 minute walk, train takes around 15 mins then I'd have another 10 minute walk at the other end, and costs money, so not really worth it.
Lucky enough to have ace facilities at the office.