recent visit to commuting chat made me laugh
team47b
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To dispel any notions that commuters don't have a sense of humour/frontal lobe, this was said to me the other day to answer a bit of a pith take question about what constitutes a commuter, and made me laugh, well not out loud as is the popular pastime these days but more in a reserved johnny foreignner style, think chuckle with dodgy accent... no that's mexican, but near enough!
"I am assuming, from looking at your location, that you are not from the UK, and therefore may not quite get the British sense of humour/xenophobic tendencies. To remove any doubts, you are probably not a commuter in the truest sense, but you are more than welcome to contribute to the drivel that normally gets posted here. After all, we are all commuters on the path of life*
*example of typical drivel"
So be careful about What you put as your location, you may well get DM'd...coming over here stealing our threads with your existential questioning of our very raison d'etre ...etc
Paternalista pessoa Inglês! Sua mãe era um hamster e seu pai cheiro de sabugueiro!
"I am assuming, from looking at your location, that you are not from the UK, and therefore may not quite get the British sense of humour/xenophobic tendencies. To remove any doubts, you are probably not a commuter in the truest sense, but you are more than welcome to contribute to the drivel that normally gets posted here. After all, we are all commuters on the path of life*
*example of typical drivel"
So be careful about What you put as your location, you may well get DM'd...coming over here stealing our threads with your existential questioning of our very raison d'etre ...etc
Paternalista pessoa Inglês! Sua mãe era um hamster e seu pai cheiro de sabugueiro!
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Oh, I forget that unless you ride a biek to work in London, you're not a commuter :roll:
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved
No. no, no you only have part of that right.
Yes you have to work in London but you also have to ride down Embankment.
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I used to work in London and commuted for three years into a different city (I hated London so much!)
But in a rare attempt to answer what was obviously a rhetorical question about what is a commuter in the truest sense...
A professional cyclist is at work when he is on his bike and a commuter is at work when he gets off!
Well it made me laugh when it occurred to me
Cannondale CAAD8
I commute by bike everyday, i hate it. It is a bit better than commuting by car but it is a necessary evil and id much rather get up when i want, go and ride some quiet roads and enjoy myself rather than drag myself out of bed and rush in to work on busy potholed roads surrounded by morons driving. Who wants to spend time on an internet forum talking about their commutes, its one of the shittest ways to start a day and you want to relive it and review it.
Can we have a section for those that read bike magazines while having a censored ? I'm having a censored now actually and im not even saying that for comedic effect.
Hate to say ride to work is probably the best bit of the working day.
"I got lost in Newfoundland!"
Cannondale CAAD8
I choose not to own a car, so do everything by bike.
I join in with the commuter thread 'cos I regularly have to go to the same place by bike and do something mundane and pointless that I don't enjoy and then cycle home again, and spend the rest of the time moaning about stuff, so on those days I am a commuter
You could always post in more than one section of the forum.
:shock:
Interesting - you associate cycling to work with the public sector? Does that mean you work in the private sector and drive to work (presumably along with everyone else who works in the private sector?) I think you private sector types ought to get out of your big heavy cars and get some exercise - it would do you good - look at you; you are getting fat!
Maybe not but everyone else will identify yourself as a commuter because that is exactly what you are!!
Yes but I dont ride a Ridgeback!
I'm not sure that that as a sole defence is going to get you off!
Am I a commuter?
Is there a cure?
The question is do you ride for fun? Yes = normal, No = commuter
- @ddraver
Nooo, that doesn't work. Commuting on bike is fun. Even the folk in London would say that though personally I don't get it.
I think you might be pure commuter if you always take the most direct way in to work. My commutes vary from 9.5 miles to about 35 miles but the office is actually 7.5 miles from home!
- @ddraver
If there is a difference to leisure cycling maybe its the feeling smug when passing traffic jams thing - but that can be pretty priceless. Heavy snow is particularly satisfying in that respect!
- @ddraver
COMMUTE~ Buy and use season ticket; travel esp. by train or car to and from one's daily work in city etc.
Hope that sorts that one out!
I myself, ride 2 or 3 days a week to work and sometimes I use the bike at weekends just for the sake of it. So, therefore one can commute to and from work AND race/TT or do a club run. I will not be pigeon-holed, so ner.
Cannondale CAAD8