Commute distance.

ave_it

I have just moved office locations so its now just under 70 mile round trip but I only do this 1 day a week now so not sure I still class is it as a commute.

Sharpie

Hi there

New to this site so hello people.

My commute is about 18 miles each way. Bloody knackered by ride 5!

CadmannUK

Hi,

I do 16 miles each way two or three time per week, about 64 or 96 miles most weeks. Coming in I have a hill over 1 mile long and going home I have a smaller hill but its 15-20% in places....

Takes 50-60mins in and about 60-70mins home.

Hougham to Sandwich.

Cad

ownworstenemy

I have about 3 miles to do each way - downhill there and uphill home which is quite nice. Sometimes take a longer, scenic route.

I'm starting to wish it was a bit further to be honest - which is another reason for me to get a new job!

vanquished

really token 'commute', mine: 2 miles each way, but I go home at lunch to check on the dog, so it's 4 x 2 miles.

The good side is that it's short enough not to mess around changing clothes. The down side is that it's pretty darned short...

steve_pushbiker

Used to do 6 miles each way, five days a week for 3 years and then I changed job and moved. Distance is now 19 miles each way to work, have managed once or twice a week for the past 5 weeks. Not sure if this makes me a commuter or not. Hoping to increase the frequency...

mikeitup

am moving back to my old workbase in a few weeks.
so insted of 2 miles each way it will be 7.

can't wait!!!

biondino

Just over 7 miles there and back (West Putney to Soho). Kind of annoying in terms of stopping and starting, traffic etc., but then again it's more exercise than a nice uninterrupted ride.

keithbold

Hi swanny

I have just started commuting as a way of building in some training to my working day. I drive in on monday, cycle home that night. Its about 20 miles. Then I ride in the next morning (that's the hard bit for me). I can leave clothes in my car and there is a shower at work. I repeat it on thursday and friday with wednesday as a rest day. As I get fitter I intend to bin the rest day and commute by bike both ways on friday. I found it quite hard at first but its the best part of my working day now.

Good luck.

harleyrott

Hi all, new hear, I've not long had the bug to cycle to work but it feels good. Mine is 6.3 miles each way. 2 miles through town and 4.3 down some pretty rough unlit back roads. All good at this time of year, i leave for work about 18:00 hrs and set off back at 07:30 the next day.
Takes me about 25 mins, having said that i'm only 12 months free from 30 fags a day and i ride a mtb with fat ass 1.95 tyres. Looking foward to nite riding cos the wife has promised me a set of "AY UP'S".

DeejayP999

Was 6 miles each way (fairly flat) 5 days a week. Now it's 8 miles each way with the last 3 a hellish climb. Hence it takes 45 minutes there and only 30 on the way back!

Tbh I can't face that every day, so I do it on day shifts, but on nights I use my other bike - the one with the 1250cc engine!

beverick

BTW, I've clocked up 108 commuting miles in two days so far this week. Some 72 miles further than the shortest route would take me!

Bob

chuckcork

For me the commute is a 46km round trip alongside for the most part 100kph highway in Co.Cork. Thats up from the 20km each way I was doing Twickenham to Putney a bit over a year ago, and its much more relaxed.

In summer now takes about 45 minutes each way cycling time as there are few traffic lights or similar speed checks, but in Winter with no lighting on the highway was forced to use a dynamo hub + lights and go a it slower (I'd outpace the lights) so would take closer to 55 minutes trip time.

Other guy in my local cycle club rides in to work a few days a week, 90km round trip for him, country highway as well.

Come across a local guy who does it also from Youghal to Cork he says 4 times a week, thats around I guess 45-50km each way?

AndyManc

7 miles each way , that I can do in about 15 to 25 mins ( depending on weather ), beating all the buses and cars.

Anything under 10 miles is do-able, unless you've been slumped in front of the TV for 20yrs then you will find it tough.

Of course if this government ( and local council's ) got their act together then their would be a massive increase in bikers ... , it's criminal the way they have failed us all.

Go-KL

If commuting to school counts, when I was at secondary school I used to in the summer months commute the 3 miles or so each way in Barnet. I loved it as it was quicker than walking or catching the bus and I used to pocket the bus fare I got from my parents - giving me some extra pocket money for CDs or clothes or whatever I was into as an adolescent.

I rode a pretty battered Peugeot racing bike at the time - my mum tried to make me wear a cycling helmet back when they were fairly new on the market. Mine was a Bell - bulky and garish too in a rather unpleasant shade of yellow. I was pretty embarrassed to wear it, so would often carry it on the handlebars whilst riding. Stupid I know, but as an image conscious teenager the consequences of crashing and splitting my skull outweighed the thought of being laughed at arriving at school with this huge yellow thing on my head...

At university I would do the occasional commute from Sandhurst to Reading (About 12 miles each way). My one outstanding memory of the ride is the day I tackled the roundabout near Earley with a little too much gusto, lost it on some 'marbles' and crashed quite heavily. I hobbled into my lecture with badly cut legs and arms to the mirth of the lecturer.

My first proper commute was back in London where I would ride from East Dulwich to Marble Arch pretty much every day for a year after I got bored sick of sitting on a bus for 80 minutes each day when I could cycle the 7 or so miles in just over half an hour. I had great fun but it was a little risky - I had a big crash when I went over the bonnet of a car who pulled out in front of me as I was doing 30 mph down a hill. I smacked my head on a kerbstone but thankfully was wearing a helmet (Which I still have on show as a thankful reminder) which meant I suffered nothing worse than a concussion and a badly bruised knee. From the number of bus and taxi drivers and commuters who stopped to offer assistance I think it looked pretty bad and I was lucky to get away with minor injuries.

Being young, dumb and full of ***, I was back on the bike a week later, riding one legged as I couldn't straighten the bad one. I even ran a half marathon two weeks later - a very painful affair.

Moving up to Coventry after a year in London, I soon found myself commuting first to Stoneleigh (7 miles each way) and then to Warwick (13 miles each way). I did that commute pretty much every day for 18 months and loved it. It saved me a shed load of money and got me as fit as I ever have been. I did though have a nasty crash when I fell off on a straight road on black ice and the driver behind me said he missed running over my head by about 3 inches. This shook me up a lot and I pretty much decided then that I wouldn't commute in the winter.

Then in 2001 I moved to my current job in Towcester and for many years I dismissed the 34 miles each way journey as a little too far for cycling. But last year with training for my first LEJOG in mind I mapped out a route that avoided the A5 and A45 and did the commute once. That was it for 2007 but this year I've made a concerted effort to try and cycle to work at least once a week during the Summer months (I'm only in the office on average 3 days a week and running is my first love so I do that on the days I don't cycle). People at work think I am mad but I enjoy it. It's a nice route (Except for a nasty hill at Priors Marston which is a pain to climb up and a little hairy going down) and the enjoyment I get reminded me why I always use to commute - it is near hassle free and damn good exercise at the same time.

CaptainCropper

17 miles a day, 8.5 each way, Ilford to City.

acbone

17 miles each way. mostly on cycle track around kilmarnock and Irvine, but a bit on back roads. 1 Hr in the morning then 1hr 25 on the way home.Uphill all the way home!

mtbcommuter

10.5 miles each way, urban and countryside mainly road with a little cycle path
Gateshead to Sunderland. cycle around 3 days a week but some weeks manage every day (depends what I'm doing at work not how I feel)
Out of my team of four three of us cycle in ! The one that doesn't is a keen cyclist/runner but lives 30 + miles away.

addman100

newbie hear, just built up to riding in four days a week.
28 mile round trip starting in stretton nr burton on trent staffs, and finishing just outside of ashby in leicestershire.
pretty hilly route, I average about 55 minutes there and about 50 minutes on the way home.

robrauy

AndyManc wrote:

7 miles each way , that I can do in about 15 to 25 mins ( depending on weather ), beating all the buses and cars.

Anything under 10 miles is do-able, unless you've been slumped in front of the TV for 20yrs then you will find it tough.

Of course if this government ( and local council's ) got their act together then their would be a massive increase in bikers ... , it's criminal the way they have failed us all.

7 miles in 15 minutes ? Are you sure you're on a bicycle ?

AndyManc

robrauy wrote:

AndyManc wrote:

7 miles each way , that I can do in about 15 to 25 mins ( depending on weather ), beating all the buses and cars.

Anything under 10 miles is do-able, unless you've been slumped in front of the TV for 20yrs then you will find it tough.

Of course if this government ( and local council's ) got their act together then their would be a massive increase in bikers ... , it's criminal the way they have failed us all.

7 miles in 15 minutes ? Are you sure you're on a bicycle ?

:P , Yep , downhill with a gale force wind behind me , that was my record ... and It was probably more like 18 mins ... I did say 'about'

Beeblebrox

12.5 miles each way. About 5 is along country main roads which are dodgy as hell, followed by 7 miles along country roads and cycle paths which is bliss, if a little steep in parts.
This is the journey which is convincing me to get a road bike and ditch the creaking cheapo mountain bike I used for my 3 mile commute in Cardiff.

AndyManc

Beeblebrox wrote:

12.5 miles each way. About 5 is along country main roads which are dodgy as hell, followed by 7 miles along country roads and cycle paths which is bliss, if a little steep in parts.
This is the journey which is convincing me to get a road bike and ditch the creaking cheapo mountain bike I used for my 3 mile commute in Cardiff.

Definately get a road or hybrid , I got my Trek FX 4.3 for £350 , far more fun, add a set of panniers and you're away.

Beeblebrox

AndyManc wrote:

Beeblebrox wrote:

12.5 miles each way. About 5 is along country main roads which are dodgy as hell, followed by 7 miles along country roads and cycle paths which is bliss, if a little steep in parts.
This is the journey which is convincing me to get a road bike and ditch the creaking cheapo mountain bike I used for my 3 mile commute in Cardiff.

Definately get a road or hybrid , I got my Trek FX 4.3 for £350 , far more fun, add a set of panniers and you're away.

At length I think I'm going to get a Carrera Valour '07 - could do with the after sales support from Halfords and the £50 of stuff to get some slightly thicker tyres and a pannier.

lamchop

Mine will be 18 miles once I have decided which bike I should get for my hilly commute!

Greg T

15 miles each way, Richmond to Canary Wharf, Five days a week (cough - mostly)

Richmond - Putney Bridge - Parson's Green - Chelsea Embankment - Millbank - Parliament Sq - Victoria Embankment - Blackfriars Underpass - Tower of London - Cable St - Canary Wharf.

About an hour / hour and five minutes / forever with a head wind going home on the Chelsea embankment (the longest wind tunnel in the word)

Lemond Chambrey Road Bike.

back-on-two-wheels

Just as I was getting used to my commute...

About 12 miles each way with around 1100ft up and 850ft down (reversed on way home).
Best done in about 35mins (going), which was quite happy with after 2 weeks commuting except for...

3 punctures in one day... and 2 days later I crashed, getting me a ride in an ambulance, o/night stay in hospital and now 5 weeks! no cycling/driving ...bummer!

Did I have a helmet? - erm, no... first on shopping list - a helmet! Don't think the Mr Bump look is really that stylish ...neither is the hole in my head

Thankfully though my bike apparently came off better than me (haven't seen it yet)... so hopefully no unforeseen repairs and by August we'll be back on the road

markybhoy67

10 miles each way

East kilbride to Glasgow city centre

mostly downhill on the way in 40 minutes

mostly uphill on the way home 55 minutes

I only have about 60 miles under my belt so far and I haven't been on a bike in about 20 years so I am hoping that in time I will knock a few minutes off each way

Ridgeback Nemesis

ris

depending on laziness; i either take the train from chippenham and do 3miles each way through bath from the station out to batheaston, along the a4.

or, take the a4 from 'nam to bath which my bike clock claims is 12.4 miles. it is prety much one up and one down in either direction, what the wiltshire box hill in the middle of the route.

currently using an airnimal joey sport, but might go for sometihng a little more road hungry.

2wheelzgood

I am 4 from work or 4.5 from the girlfriend. Not flat but not too bad. either one takes about 16mins to and 18-20 back on a singlespeed.

I'm moving sson though.. not sure where and how far work will be.. I am thinking I'll ocnsider a 10- maybe 15mile each way commute on current bike depending on climbs, wind and changing the gearing..
and up to 20 or a bit more but then I'll get a road bike again.

I guess it depends on traffic and fuel costs as my motorbike can get travel times low. trains tend to be ridiculus in cost compared to running a cycle or motorbike.