Commuting by bike – how long is yours??

In time (NOT distance)

What is your job?

How often do you do it?

30 mins,
work in a lab,
every day

25-35 mins

Electronics Buyer

Every Day

Every day I work as a nurse. Various sites – rarely more than 1/2 hr away these days

Anywhere from 40min to 2hrs depending on weather/how much fun i want on the way home.
Chef at Leeds uni
5 days a week

45 minutes

Primary school teacher

once, ever 🙂 But after last Friday proved it is quite possible once sorted out the plan is initially twice a week. See what happens once that is happening.

50 mins – 2 hrs each way ( depending on if its my usual job or if i'm acting as a relief manager)
5-6 days a week
hotel and restaurant manager

12 minutes on the way, 20 on the way back.
Practice director
Occasionally – twice this week.

Hour (each way, 50% xc)

Assistant Manager (retail)

1-3 times a week (Weather dependent I'm afraid) .. though have done the odd whole week when I've decided to 'man up' but I'm dead at the end of it.

Tracker – i too am a teacher (secondary school and Assistant head of year) – have to be in work by 8 and the "commute" would be 1 hr 10 ish. Just not sure if its manageable on top of a 8-9hr stint on my feet 🙁

35 minutes each way

Nurse

4 days a week usually

40 minutes
CNC machine setter
1 day a week but aiming for twice a week now the days are getting longer

12 minutes on a Sunday when there is no traffic… too scary with so many blind drivers on the road during a normal rush hour weekday.

Retail shop

Approx 3mins…

Joiner….

5 days.

It's not unknown for me to commute and do a 14hr hr shift, you normally enjoy the ride home, it's the getting back up at 5.30 in the morning that's a killer! If so ride 3 times, you'll feel the benefit.

40 minutes or so depending on the wind and how deep the mud is. Actually usually the longest when the weathers nice and I take a few detours.

AV Technician

Everyday I'm in the office all year round. I'll be working in Berlin Munich and Hong Kong in the next month so they are all probably a bit far for the bike.

12 mins downhill in the morning, 15 mins uphill to get home
Highways Engineer
4 or 5 days a week depending on beer opportunities / bad rain

1 hour each way
maintenance Engineer
4 – 5 days a week

30 40 mins at least depends on route every day sheet metal worker amongst other things see 7-14 6 speed cassette thread

It's going to be some 45-60 mins each way, weekends only (main roads and blind drivers make it difficult on weekdays). On a road fixie 😉

20 mins each way (unless I take the scenic route home 😛 )
Pre-school assistant
4 days

30 minutes eachway
trade counter manager
5 days 1 week
6 days the next

20mins, 4.5 miles

marine electrican

5 days a week. this is my 5th week riding in still going strong! and more money less fuel!

30 mins
graphic designer/marketing guru
m-f dude

35 Mins 8 miles
Country Manager
5 days mostly

<10mins by most direct route but usually take a 30 – 45 min off road loop in order to get my head straight before commencing battle for the day.

Health Care Scientist (…..is the latest label 🙄 )

Every day, unless there is a straight after work beer function – in that case I walk (30 mins).

25 minutes there and about an hour back as I normally take a different route home…

50 mins each way, 39/15 fixed
4 times a week
Systems Engineer
out at 7am
leave work at 6pm
pretty tired by Thursday, but i see commuting (by car) as dead time. So riding kills two birds with one stone (training and commuting).

20-25m
lawyer
most days

1/2 hr each way
That'd be telling
EVERY day (missed three days during the bad snow)
Start and finish at different times – shifts (7a/3p, 2p/12p, 9p/7a)

just under an hour each way varies 2-4 times a week

if I'm working in Newcastle, about 9 hours

never.

if I'm working in Blackpool, about 3 hours.

never.

depending on the route between 2 and 3.5 hours a day. 4 or 5 days a week.

Another of the STW IT bods.

7.42 miles 🙂 about 25 mins each way
I'm a weighbridge clerk in a quarry
I try and do it 3 times a week, with one day off, and the other day I go for an evening ride. Rather weather dependant though, I don't like getting to work soaked to the skin at 7am, sorry.
In the summer, Fridays is usually a longer offroad ride home though.

About 12 minutes at a lesiurly pace.
Manitenance engineer
50% of the time, I.e. when I dont need the car to take any "foreigners" into work.

Untill a recent change of jobs it used to 25miles there and 25 back, up and down the the Struggle ( spelling ?)
Now in the company car so now have to fit training in at other times.

1 hour 15 ish each way, on top of a 12 hour shift, about 3 times a week. So leave the house @ 5AM, back home for 8:30PM

depends which way I go. ten minutes the quick way and an hour or so for the long way and various other routes in between.

data network engineer

commute everyday… except one day not so long ago because of the ice.

1h 40 each way
project engineer
and not as often as I would like!

Cheers, Rich

never timed it tbh, but about an hour each way daily, this time of year.