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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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  • June 15, 2010 at 12:47 pm #629347
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    mcfchris

    17 ish each way… but often
    17 ish each way… but often I just keep going on the way home in the sunshine B-)

    June 2, 2010 at 7:44 am #629345
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    workhard

    20km inbound, usually a bit
    20km inbound, usually a bit more on the return leg, 3 or 4 times a week at this time of year. But it is from one small market town to another so mainly (very) rural. Chapeau to you urban lads and lasses I couldn’t hack that anymore.

    June 1, 2010 at 7:22 pm #629343
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    Simon Walker

    11 miles in and 18 miles
    11 miles in and 18 miles home. I ride every working day unless I’m off-site.

    In the summer, on Fridays I try to get the home run up to 20 miles plus đŸ™‚

    May 31, 2010 at 4:46 pm #629341
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    Tony Farrelly

    Here’s what I used to do when
    Here’s what I used to do when I had a long commute.

    Have a shower before I left for work, and always rode in wearing clean kit – stale sweat is what smells. Then when I got there I washed as much of the sweat off as I could and waited until I had cooled down and stopped sweating (10 mins or so) before I got changed – on hot days giving myself a bit more of a splash with water and deoderant, kept at work for the purpose. Sounds a ffaf but actually it was easy. I suppose if you worked somewhere that you had to be suited and booted from the off you might want to go in early enough to cool down and change before the working day officially began.

    May 31, 2010 at 4:36 pm #629339
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    dave6779

    What do you guys do about
    What do you guys do about showers? I’ve just moved house to Chorley so my new commute will be 16.5 miles, so i’m going have to practise longer rides before I can do that. Do you guys have showers at your work? I’m starting a placement year at a company in Manchester tomorrow but i’m not sure if they do and I don’t want to sit in an office smelling of a 16 mile bike commute lol.

    May 31, 2010 at 12:01 pm #629337
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    mellon farmer

    I ride every weekday 5 miles
    I ride every weekday 5 miles each way on probably the flattest route in Cornwall, either fixed on a 1983 Raleigh Record Sprint (52/20) or fixed on a Genesis Day One Cross (42/17) if the weather is dodgy as has full mud guards, more relaxed geometry etc. Worse thing is the windy, how can it be a head wind riding in then a head wind riding back? Wind sucks!!

    May 26, 2010 at 7:12 pm #629335
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    JustJ

    8.5 miles each way from West
    8.5 miles each way from West London to EC2. Lovely part through Hyde Park, not so much fun through the City.

    I do tend to chicken out if it’s raining though. Can’t stand cycling in the rain and am therefore obviously in the wrong country… lol

    May 13, 2010 at 1:56 pm #629333
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    matt_fantastic

    that was certainly what it
    that was certainly what it sounded like…

    May 13, 2010 at 11:33 am #629331
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    TRs Blurb n Blog

    surely he wasn’t on his daily
    surely he wasn’t on his daily commute from Reading?!

    May 13, 2010 at 11:10 am #629329
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    matt_fantastic

    11 ish miles each way –
    11 ish miles each way – Twickenham to Tottenham Court Road: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/33107266

    đŸ™‚

    Met a fellow this AM around the 4 mile mark and he’d come all the way from Reading…

    May 12, 2010 at 9:42 pm #629327
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    dave atkinson

    3.30am? what time do you
    3.30am? what time do you leave? đŸ™‚

    you won’t catch me smiling at any time before about half past ten

    May 12, 2010 at 7:35 pm #629325
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    alifeinwales

    28 hilly miles round trip
    28 hilly miles round trip most days. Arrive at work 3:30AM
    I’m the only one with a smile on his face…

    May 12, 2010 at 2:48 pm #629323
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    fuzzy

    10.25 miles each way every
    10.25 miles each way every day. marlow to Burnham via Bourne End and Cookham. At the moment it is on a fixed (42X16 on 700c with 170 mm cranks giving a 692 gear) but, when I have the geared bike out, I occasionaly ride via Winter Hill allowing me to get a good climb in on the way to work.

    May 12, 2010 at 2:10 pm #629321
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    Mossrider

    Here’s mine – on average once
    Here’s mine – on average once a week – 28 miles each way with 700m climbing to work, 800m climb back home (why did I ever buy a house on top of a Pennine?)Lovely run if the weather’s bad đŸ˜‰

    http://road.cc/content/news/14271-commuting-through-tcity-thats-nowt

    May 11, 2010 at 12:05 pm #629319
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    Jonny7C

    5 miles each way on A650
    5 miles each way on A650 between Wakefield & Bradford. Fairly steady uphill to work and downhill on way home. Sometimes vary route home to take in some hills and extra distance but haven’t once managed to motivate myself to extend the route in to work despite many promises.

    recognise a couple of sames faces once or twice a week but only in opposite direction. Fitness def improved when first started (3 years back) but plateaud months ago and no lighter now than when i started!

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