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How far do you commute to work (by bike)?

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  • June 12, 2009 at 9:29 am #11769
    TRs Blurb n Blog

    OK, you have to do this regularly, it doesn’t count if you have cycled to work once or cycled past your work on a weekend jaunt plus you have to cycle back the same day to where you started from. Also it has to be current, not ‘back in the day’. It will be interesting to see if some of us cover the same route but have never met.

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  • January 14, 2011 at 8:55 am #629377
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    mad_scot_rider

    12 miles each way
    Inward
    12 miles each way

    Inward it’s almost all down-hill looking down from the hills into the Clyde valley

    On the way home it’s an exercise in torture designed to reduce the strongest man to tears with only the hot shower and meal to drag me on to the finish

    😀

    January 13, 2011 at 5:02 pm #629375
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    filthybloke

    In Edinburgh, from pretty
    In Edinburgh, from pretty much the bypass to just the other side of the centre makes it 5 miles each way. Presently 4 out of 5 days a week, but keen to get that fifth day regularly.

    In the dry, daylight, spring/summer/autumn evenings, intend taking the home leg via some loops of Arthers Seat… :^o

    …no, really, I wanna.

    January 11, 2011 at 8:54 pm #629373
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    xcstu

    I ride 10 miles each way 5
    I ride 10 miles each way 5 days a week into the heart of London.. not the most pleasant ride but gets the miles in 😀

    Have a bit of a hill going back to kingston but all pretty flat!

    January 8, 2011 at 7:15 pm #629371
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    mandy

    i ride 4 miles each way with
    i ride 4 miles each way with a killer hill to start, then some flats, then another killer hill, before it goes flat again and then the road turns into a small section of Paris-Roubaix lol i try and do this about 4-5 times a week in all weathers.

    mandy

    January 7, 2011 at 12:49 pm #629369
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    woollee23

    14 miles each way along the
    14 miles each way along the Tyne, 3-4 times a week (depending on the weather – we’ve had a LOT of snow up here over the past month).

    January 7, 2011 at 11:55 am #629367
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    BBLeeds

    9.5 miles each way (4 days a
    9.5 miles each way (4 days a week) look after our little one on Mondays. Three days a week bringing fruit and veg back from good old Leeds market (how could you not!)
    Less snow and longer days would be welcome.

    January 5, 2011 at 10:17 pm #629365
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    joemmo

    12 miles each way, 3 to 5
    12 miles each way, 3 to 5 days a week. Whitley Bay to Newcastle via Shiremoor, Battle Hill, Wallsend and along the river to the Quayside. I could ride the C2C route and avoid the traffic but the glass and possibility of a chava ambush doesn’t appeal.

    re: showers, luckily our place has installed some so that’s made things a lot more pleasant. No decent bike parking though so bikes end up stacked around nooks in the office. There’s a definite 2 tier system of those who care about their machines and those who don’t. Most bikes end up in a tangled pile in the kitchen but the ‘do cares’ have colonised a few choice spots where you can be sure you won’t get your carbon scratched off someone’s rusty apollo.

    December 27, 2010 at 11:42 pm #629363
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    Hobett

    25 – 35 miles each way
    25 – 35 miles each way depending on where in Bristol I need to go, up to 5 days a week depending on what work I have to do. Sometimes I have no choice but to use my car due to kit requirements for the job. The most miles I’ve done in a week is 305.

    Wet wipes work wonders for having a “shower” when you get there.

    Melksham
    Whitely
    Box Five ways
    Box
    A4 to Bath
    Bath Bus station
    Bat – Bristol cycle path.

    December 20, 2010 at 12:36 am #629361
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    yellowyeller

    9 – 10 miles each way, from
    9 – 10 miles each way, from Swiss Cottage to Canary Wharf. I do it once or twice a week – on 2 other days I get the tube to Waterloo and run from there.

    December 18, 2010 at 11:41 pm #629359
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    ironbloke

    27.6 miles on two wheels 5
    27.6 miles on two wheels 5 days a week! OK – most days it’s on a Divvy600 but I do try to do once or twice a week on my trusty (rusty) Arthur Caygill road bike. Last time I did it the temperature was -3 but plenty of layers and going slow downhill and it’s all good. Water bottle was frozen by the time I got there. I’ve got a shower at work and I stash clean clothes in a locker! When do the days start getting longer? 🙂

    December 16, 2010 at 10:56 am #629357
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    fasted

    Only about a mile and a half
    Only about a mile and a half in Sheffield so a piddling distance compared to the rest of the posts

    December 15, 2010 at 9:34 am #629355
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    yorkshiredemon

    Around 11.5 miles each way
    Around 11.5 miles each way which I do on average 1 or 2 days per week. It is sometimes difficult to organise the logistics of taking a child to nursery and getting my laptop and change of clothes and towel to work and occasionally travelling to meetings but I do love not sitting in traffic. I got knocked off by a woman on the school run which messed with my confidence in traffic so now I sort of take my time to enjoy it more. I have started to vary my route away from the main roads as fed up of motorists trying to kill me and although it maybe longer I can link a number of bridleways and towpaths together to make some journeys 7 miles off road (of-course using another bike for that).

    November 17, 2010 at 12:51 pm #629353
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    David cycling the world

    13miles, each way, 5 times
    13miles, each way, 5 times per week. but, because its in the north east of england, my commute to college isn’t exactly FLAT.

    August 9, 2010 at 11:36 pm #629351
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    wez

    About 10 miles each way 5
    About 10 miles each way 5 days a week (and on occasion 6 days) all year from Wolverhampton to Oldbury. Had to get rid of my car about two years ago as it failed its MOT and it was getting too expensive to run. Best thing i ever did. Hate riding with the wind against me though, but the fitness benefits are brilliant.

    June 30, 2010 at 1:50 pm #629349
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    noiseboyfeetman

    7.5 miles each way, do it a
    7.5 miles each way, do it a couple of times a week, takes just as long as it would for me to drive and get the park and ride bus, plus i don’t have to wait for the buses that often don’t turn up or sit on a crowded bus when they do.

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