Describe your commute.
>Cycle
>Through neighbourhood.
>cross into industrial estate.
>Walk up hill with bike to office.
>On way home, freewheel downhill.
>walk
>walk home
Bike to work:
1 mile on neighborhood streets
3 miles on fast arterial roads (downhill)
final 5 miles through quiet, grid-layout pre-war neighborhoods and downtown (pic related, it's very pleasant)
Bike back home:
8-9 miles on a less-busy main/arterial road that gently gains elevation
Last 1-2 miles either a MUP or an easy singletrack trail or another moderately busy road, depending on stops I need to make
>having a job
>take bus
>sometimes drive or bike to the station depending on the weather
>transfer to train
>do the same on the way back
>inb4 "fair weather faget"
I'll pass on arriving at the office with a damp ass you freaks.
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Take two of these one way, takes about 1.5 - 2 hrs to travel ~25 kms from home to college.
They stuff 25 people in there, don't ask how.
>To work:
Out of the house by 3:50AM or I'll miss the train.
1.8mi to the train station
train for 25 minutes
0.8mi from the station to work.
>From work:
I can either take the same route home, or I have my options of a 18mi route with 4 miles of shitty road in the beginning, 30 mile bike trail ride home, 0% roads, 30 mile trail ride home, 50% gravel and 50% MUP, or a 42 mile route that's about 25 miles of gravel and the rest is MUP.
Feels excellent, man.
>pack a backpack with a towel and extra shirt, so my coworkers don't kill me over the stench
>cram my bike into a 2m2 lift as neighbours (read, immigrants) look on disapprovingly
>try to survive crossing a 30km/h residential road where everyone drives 80km/h
>6km of segregated bike road on a main road, turning into an industrial area, then past a cemetary and a university complex
>one short elevation of about 30m
>a roundabout where I nearly get hit at least once a week, those car fuckers...
>on the way back
>take the long, 9km way back
>mostly along the bypass on a segregated bike road
pretty uneventful, luckily
Pic related is my old route to university, some city planner apparently thought painting half the pavement another colour constitutes a bike path.
>wake up at 4 ish
>hit snooze a bunch
>close to 5 actually get up
>make breakfast and lunch
>walk out to my work truck
>drive about 30 miles to the jobsite, eat breakfast while driving
>sit in truck reading for a few until 645 then unload my tools and lunch box and walk into the jobsite
>>936218
>Feels excellent, man.
Damn right
3;50AM seems soooo fucked up though
>>936240
It's not terrible. Just means I can't party down on work nights, but it also means I get off at 3pm every day and only work 4 days a week. I get more riding time that way :)
>>936192
>Walk up hill
to work
>pour 50 gallons of premium gasoline into truck
>start truck, scares away birds
>drive through rural roads, cyclists forced off the the road
>hit parkway, have to go slow for police who are stuffed into literally every nook and cranny
>get on interstate, accelerate to roughly 100 mile per hour
>take exit, hit city traffic
>use bike lane to expedite travel
>arrive at work
>scrape bike frames off the grille.
>>936192
>1 mile through small city
>Jump on to the riverbed for about 3 miles
>Ride through decent residential streets for about 2.5 miles
>Jump on to another riverbed for 2 miles
>Ride through God awful streets for 8 straight flat miles.
Takes me about an hour and a half.
>>936217
I've seen these on my trip to Kenya, you're in Africa i take it?
>>936282
That lock topology... Does anyone else see what I see?
>would not steal anyway
>>936192
cycle through hilly city for 10 km / 25 min
+5 min change at work
or
run through hilly city for 10 km / 1 hour
+15 min shower/change at work
or
walk to tram
5 min tram ride
change to train
10 min train ride
walk to office 10 min
= 40 min with wait/buffer
or
20-90 min car ride
>>936325
What are you seeing?
>>936325
Remove forks and take the rest of the bike? I'm not sure that I see what you see as I'm not a nigger
>cycle through flat, but car dominant and cyclist hostile suburban landscape to the bus exchange (or transit centre as americans call them)
>get on bus to a skytrain station
>ignore the skytrain and get on another bus
>arrive at destination
>>936320
No, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Each morning I have a choice of:
North route:
5.4 miles on a newly paved gravel trail surrounded by pristine marshlands and associated wildlife.
South route:
5.3 miles riding on a tiny bike lane sandwiched between a busy road and a freeway.
>>936340
I know this strip of trail! Moffet's off to the right, correct?
>>936192
>Cycle
>on a bike path adjacent to a walk path going parallel to a street
>thru a housing neighbourhood
>then around college grounds, still on bike path and/or shared path
>last third or so part of the route I get on the street (partially because the sidewalks there are crowded and partially because the street is wider than usual and it's OK to ride there)
It's a 6-8 km (depending on how I go) route that's generally going a little downhill on the way to me job place. Rather good paths/roads. Depening on the weather I start riding somewhere as early as February and don't stop until late November.
The one route I ride the most often is basically the same I'd be taking when going by bus. Riding it takes me about 25 minutes because I try not to go too fast to not get all stinky, still, about 15 minutes faster than bus.
On my way back I usually take even bigger of a loop to ride more because I love riding bike.
>>936250
I get off at 4 "pm" every day and don't have to leave home until about half past 7 in the morning.
>4 times a week
That's pretty cool tho!
>hop on cycle
>cycle down a hill
>get halfway up a hill from momentum
>kill myself getting the rest of the way up the hill to the station
>on train for 1.5 hours, take bike with
>get off train and cycle down some roads to shared path
>cycle along shared path to bridge
>cross the road there onto a nicer shared path that follows a river
>at the end of the shared path is another big hill but warmed up so no worries m8
>ride down the hill into parking
Pretty much the same back home except momentum gets me up the entire hill until my house which is on top of a hill. So I ride uphill both ways, fml.
>>936219
Still better than the shit we get here. It is just a line along the shoulder of the road where cars park. What the fuck is the point of marking a cycle area if cars are still allowed to park there. I have never been able to use it.
>>936267
I do/did that too.
>>936369
Hills are fucked m8. It is not even a single elevation, there are sections where steps are built into the sidewalk so you know that shit is steep. I realised recently that if I move more into the road then the hill is closer to a single elevation and the parts where it becomes impossibly steep are more levelled out.
>>936371
git gud
>>936348
Yeah that's the one!
Just got a new job, so I'm still figuring out the commute options, but my old one went like this:
>grab skateboard and pack with work clothes
>skate 10 minutes up slight up hill to a parking lot that over looks a nice beach
>fuck around in the parking lot, skating, watching the waves, whatever
>walk five minutes up steep bike path
>bomb hill that leads directly to my (former) work place after about three blocks
>change and clock in
I'll miss the commute. My new job is too far to skate to every day, so I'm going to buy a used road bike soon since I don't particularly enjoy driving to work.
>>936370
for some reason, people here tend to park on the "bike paint" if it's on the pavement, but don't do it if it's on the road.
Probably weird bias by traffic cops or whatever.
I prefer the road one though, the constant driveway bumps are annoying as fuck and there's no way to go above 20km/h there.
Unfortunately, the law is silly and you're obliged to use the bike path if there is one.
>>936425
dont worry anon, I am sure that mcdonalds will take you back after they fire you from burger king
>>936192
>avoid glass
>avoid glass
>"oh shit thats a big ass pile of glass"
>"its that another broken vodka bottle?"
95% of the time
>walk 700m to the bus stop in my small town
>sit there for 25 minutes because somehow the bus that is supposed to arrive every 10 minutes doesn't show up
>sit on the bus for another 25 minutes
>get to the city where I shelf stack
>do my shift
>get out 15 minutes late because my managers are incompetent at counting the till money, every single night
>miss the bus
>need to sit there for 45 minutes for the next one
I'd cycle to work but it's a fair distance (at least it seems to me to be a fair distance, I've looked at other peoples commuting distance and it's nothing compared to them at 7 or so miles, 12km, one way).
Tempted to pack in and get a job at a call centre type place where I think they have changing rooms, which would be great for cycling (I assume they have changing rooms, on the bottom floor there's a gym because I've seen people on the running machines). It's a fair bit closer and there doesn't seem to be a dress code, but now I'm just blogging.
>>936472
7 miles at my taking it easy pace of 3:30 a mile isnt anything anon, with some time and a little slower at say 4-4:30 a mile you might not even break a sweat.
>>936472
Cycling would be faster and after a few weeks that distance will feel like nothing. plus you get at least a little workout.
>>936472
>his work doesn't have a bathroom
where the fuck are you working dude?
>>936490
Mens bathroom is like 3 feet by 3 feet with piss everywhere.
Womens have their own stalls, sinks, the only one that's ever stocked with paper and soap, etc. Half the time I just use that one because no one really cares, but still.
Also the lockers are like 15cm wide by about a foot tall, can't even fit my small backpack in there when it's night shift and I have to take a meal, etc., nevermind it with a change of clothes.
I work in a shithole, family.
>10 minutes walk from doors of my flat to underground station
>three stations if going to work/one more station to school
>about 3 minutes walk and I'm set
>3km bike path along river
>3km through suburbs
>3km bike path through park
>2km along industrial street
>>936192
>Walk up hill with bike
>>936472
12km one way is piss easy to ride faggot
Walk 5 mins to subway station.
Wait 0-10 minutes for train.
70-90 mins later exit train and station.
Walk 10 minutes to campus.
I would cycle if it wasn't so far, 20 miles one way.
Schwalbe lugano
>pack extra shirt
>leave a few mins early to strap backpack to rack
>7 mile bike ride
>flat city streets with bike lane
>racing the city bus
>usually win because of traffic and frequent stops
>try not to get hit where traffic entering/exiting the freeway merges with bike lane
>try not to get hit again by traffic merging to enter the parking garage
>try not to hit people walking and texting on the campus
>>936469
>have shitty MTB tyres that have probably been on the bike since it was made
>ride over all the glass and crap that ends up in the bike lane no fucks given
Probably fucking up the tyres but they have barely any tread left anyway. Going to switch them out for some new ones soonTM.
>>936599
>>leave a few mins early to strap backpack to rack
Do you have a basket or do you put the bag straight on? I have a rack but I always have my backpack on my back because I just do not feel like I can get it secure on there without a basket.
Still comes in handy when I do shopping though, get the boxes/flat things on the bottom of the bag against the rack, tie up the shopping bags and then strap it all down with bungie straps A++
>>936192
How much would one of those nice baskets run me in dollarydoos?
Or are there some alternatives I could jury-rig? I have thought about, and seen people, using a milkrate but it seems like it would be a bitch to swing my leg over with the milk crate sticking up so high. Not to mention they are a bit weighty and I don't feel good about technically stealing.
>>936282
>dat locking technique
>undo QR, pull fork straight up through the lock
>oh shit nigga what are you doing
Waste of u-lock. Might as well just use the wire.
>>936192
A mountainbike, Scott 735 with lighter wheels and easier rolling tyres. This one has got me through the winter and a feet of snow and now when the snow is almost i suddenly average over 30-35 km/h where i only made 25-30 km/h before the winter.
It will be fun to to see what average speeds i can do on my race bike over 60+ kilometers distances this summer :D, enduring winter and snow builds stamina and muscles, i almost feel twice as strong as did in in august 2015 :D.
>>936421
My after-work loop is Moffet to Baylands and back. Real nice after dark when it's cooler out.
>>936648
Ranges from about $20-$50 maybe for the really nice ones.
I suppose any old basket from the home section of stores could do though and have them held down by zip ties. I used to do that, but had to replace the ties every once in a while
Pic related is 5 bucks at KMart. You can get slightly bigger ones for 9-10 bucks.
You could supposedly make panniers out of buckets too
>>936494
>living in London
Feel sorry for you Rasheed
>>936611
I just have a rack. I use a cargo net and a big bungee that goes over top of the bag. Its really hot where I live so the backpack commute got old really quick.
>Cross street from apartments
>Travel half mile south and try to decide if I should turn with traffic, cross and wait.
>get caught up in larger existential crisis of how great it would be to turn west away from work
>end up traveling south another mile in the worse bike lane because I ended up blowing through the original turn.
>Eventually turn east with a cross and wait because that intersection is on of the most dangerous in town.
>Keep heading east until the underpass right at work.
>Continue to have existential crisis throughout the day.
>work from home
Ahahaha actually I don't work from home, I'm NEET.
>Cycle
>Go out back door
>Turn left onto main street
>Turn right pretty much immediately to go down the back way through an area filled with old people
>A bit of a winding road, usually mega crosswinds over here
>short but steep descent
>Turn right onto a different main road that leads toward the city centre
>Dodge buses and children going to school
>Even bigger and steeper descent
>This would be great if it wasn't for the blind corners and HUGE potholes that could easily crack a wheel
>Get to the bottom, stop at light
>Turn left, swing right, stop at light
>Go straight and then turn left and start approaching the Jamaican/Paki area
>Turn right at light if green, if not - hop curb and go across crosswalk
>Go up street where I've nearly had 3 crashes
>Go up Bus lane and go across two roads, usually stuck at light with buses breathing down my neck behind me
>Go through industrial area
>Shiiiet avoid all those fucking brick chunks, glass, and screw/nails everywhere
>Oh fugg now I could either go on the dual carriageway or ride on the sidewalk bike path
>Go on path behind a ton of car dealerships
>Niggas on folding bikes everywhere
>Old woman that is balding and dyes her her black so it looks more obvious every morning
>Dodge college students who are running across dual carriageway like retards
>Get to college
>Old ass man that always wants to talk about how great my shitty Bianchi Via Nirone is
>Lock up
>Go inside
>Get changed
>do all in reverse 8 hours later, mostly
daily commute:
5mins to bus station
an hour bus ride
10mins train ride
5mins on foot
Alternative 1: change the 1 hour bus ride and 10 mins train to a 30 mins one and then 30 mins metro
Alternative 2: 10 mins of minibus and then 60 mins metro with two interchange
Alternative 3: 40 mins bus, 15 mins ferry and then 20 mins minibus and 15 mins walk
Alternative 4: an hour taxi
>Cycle
>Start with residential area
>Residential area turns into ghetto after a road, ride through
>Ride through sports field on gravel for a kilometer
>Ride a couple of km more beside a road with small slope upwards to work
>strap into deathcage in driveway at 6:45 AM
>listen to death grips
ITGOESITGOESITGOESITGOESITGOES YUH
>disengage strap, exit deathcage in driveway at 4:30 PM
too soft to ride both ways so usually bring bike on bus in morning, but afternoon:
>8 miles bike lane, high traffic suburbia
>3 miles on low traffic island, no bike path take the lane
>2 miles bridge
>4 miles back home through quiet city streets
I only bike commute in the summer because it's not fun in the winter and I don't like being miserable.
>turn left out of my neighborhood around 6 am onto large road (3 lanes each direction, bikes may use full lane)
>cross about 4 large intersections with traffic lights
>2.5 miles
>cross extra big intersection
>get into left lane after traffic passes, turn left into office
Ride home
>turn left out of office from back entrance
>ride to neighboring office
>hop a curb into the grass on my 25mms
>ride a few hundred feet though thick grass, hop onto an actual bike trail
>ride under bridge, hop onto sidewalk
>connect to another bike trail
>check out all the qt 3.14 grills running on the trail after work
>about 4 miles home
>get home and have a beer that I didn't earn on my tiny commute
Kinda boring living in a city
>ride through my hood, decent roads
>stoplight for a 4 lane highway
>ride through other hood, same as mine on some more decent roads
>Extreme warning! Deathtrap intersection w/o stoplights, surprised i didn't die there yet
>across the bridge on provided too narrow bike path. thanks mayor
>smooth downhill but take care for the extremely sharp right on the very end
>choice time
>wide sidewalk with bike lane and dealing with sharp curbs on each intersection
>road and smooth roads with one annoyingly wide speed bump
>take road every time
>across another dangerous intersection where cars tend to speed a lot and over to a wide church parking lot
>into narrow street neighborhood
>everyone there has dogs, they bark at me and sometimes chase me
>thankfully no big dogs, only small little cunts
>massive shortcut over unpaved gravel path filled with random trash. Punctured my tire there once already on a nail
>into some more narrow roads, surprisingly filled with lots of traffic and fucking dogs.
>on wide bike path
>over a huge 6 lane intersection into another extremely well kept bike path no one uses cos it's out of the way for fucking everyone except me and another guy i see every morning.
>a nice straight road, cut over a large parking lot and into my place of work.
It's about a 5km ride.
A 3.5 mile bike ride between the Lower East Side and Wall Street.
To work:
A nice 5km ride or so
>get bicycle in bicycle garage in my newly built condo located seaside and in the upper class neighbourhood
>ride on dedicated bicycle road through the neighbourhood
>pass old prison (awesome old architecture) now renovated into upper class condos just at the edge of the upper class area
>double fences with barbed wire and wall still there protecting a nice prison garden that's more or less a park
>has it's practical use now since a refugee camp was opened near it
>quickly pass the refugee camp in case some of the refugees are up
>usually goes fine since they sleep until at least 12 AM
>now enters shared pedestrian and bicycle road
>go under a few underpasses so I don't have to risk my life to cagers
>shared bicycle and pedestrian road now widened and separated into a dedicated bicycle lane
>it's heated so it's always snow and ice free
>go down the office buildings garage and park bicycle
From work:
>take a 40km detour outside the city and enter my neighbourhood from a nice country road
>>936596
It would probably be faster to get there on a bicycle. Depends on if you have shower options so you can go full tour de France mode.
>>939432
>I don't like being miserable.
SOFT
You am no real super sand.
>carry bike down 3 flights of stairs
>ride through one mile of "meh" hood
>all one way street, no one bothers me
>come down down for final leg
>Ivy League school downtown
>holy shit kids jaywalking everywhere
>fuck, did you event fucking look man?
>people parked in bike lane
>constantly in fear of getting doored hard from parked cars
>bring bike into work
Commute home
>work at bar
>leave at 2-3am
>drink a beer and ride with no handlebars the entire way home
or
>smoke weed and ride for an hour around the empty town fast as fuck
It's great and everyone thinks I'm nuts for riding my bike to work 1.5 miles, but got damn if its not soothing after a day needy idiots.
>>936192
>step into my pedal blimp
>pedal fly over the city (I Live in a domed city so no weather problems).
>land in a special pedal blimp parking area
>tie my pedal blimp secure
>walk the last 2 minutes to work
pretty nice
>>940008
forgot to say I always meet Hank on his pedal blimp while commuting and we sometimes accidentally bump into each other, but that doesn't matter, a bit like pedal blimp bumper cars, quite fun. Hank and I visit the Sauna after work
>50 minute subway ride
>10 minute bus ride
>5 minute walk
would ride if it wasn't 25+ km each way
>>939988
It's weird how normies think riding a couple miles makes you some kind of athlete
>bike 0.5 km from house to bike path
>ride bike path 5.7 km directly to my campus which is bounded on the south side by said bike path
On the entirety of the bike path there must be 5 lights. I blast through it.
Over the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn in my highest gear, then down Flushing avenue; a chaotic vortex of vehicular danger, to get to work. Then down Broadway over the Williamsburg Bridge (in my highest gear) into Chinatown to get home.
>>936282
Lock the frame, not the fork. Raise your saddle and straighten your bars you ex fixie fag.
>down driveway
>ride down road I live on
>road turns into dirt for 1.5 miles
>potholes everywhere
>bike becomes dirty
>muddy if rain, mud shit stains on my back (no fenders)
>ride down main street, no sidewalk
>cars going 50 a foot away from me
>gets worse in summer with tourists who can't drive
>riding in gutter, gravel everywhere
>arrive at work, ~13 mins total
Been riding it for some years now and I'm surprised I haven't gotten a side mirror to the back of my head. Almost happened once when some dumb fuck kids were skateboarding against traffic.
I ride an ALL ROAD Al/garbon fork meme bike with a rack on the back and 28mm slicks. Should have got 32 or 35 supremes, but what can you do?
>24km through suburbs and around the city center, starts to rise as you leave the 'burbs
>~400m of climb at 5%
That takes me nearly 10 minutes more on the loaded bike than the garbon racer
>up and down rolling hills -200m for 15km or so
Coming back isn't as much total climbing but it might be harder because what there is, is much steeper.
The round trip is just under 100km, takes around 4 hours. Only work at most once a week though.
>>936596
If you got fast, assuming the worst possible times for that you could save 1-2 hours a day on your commute.
> 3.5 miles to work down Broad St, Philadelphia
> Constant high-alter for getting doored while squeezed between parked cars and 2 lanes of traffic
> "Take the lane!" (get shot)
> But can take the lane for brief stretches if I hustle up to 20+mph
> MUST run red lights to keep ahead of the flow of cars. If you time it right and blow through every light you can, cars are rarely buzzing you
> Sometimes you time it wrong and a bus almost kills you
It feels fucking great though. Especially coming home when sweat is not an issue and you go as hard as possible
>>936219
This is the most european thing I've ever read
Sure I had a video, all the ones I have are old
About 6AM
>Cycle to work on the roads (few cycle paths on the way)
>Good down hill right near the start
>Incline with lights that im getting the timing down so they both are on green.
>Ok in the morning big round about
About 3 miles,
About 15 minutes, but have done it in under 10
About 11am home ruote
>Roads busier
>Walkers and phone gazers
>Lorry's
>Roundabout is usually busy so use a near by crossing if I can see no openings
>Bollocks to the up hill so take a longer route
About 20 minutes, did it today in about 15 as the roads where clear
Its about 40 minutes on the bus
>>944353
Where you at brother? I bike from collingswood to Philly all the time for work
>>936528
not wanting to be drenched in work clothes
I walk to the living room, then sit on the stationary for 2 hours, then walk back to my computer.
>>936192
Around 10km (6.2mi), mountainbike in the winter and race bike or mountainbike in the summer. In the summer i either go double distance with the race bike or head through the woods on my mtb.
Last winter was not very cold maybe -15C (5F) at worst but lots of snow, the winter before that was -25 to -30C (-13F to -22F) over 3 months so it was a bitch. The cold really gets to you, eats your will away, the cold is much worse than heavy snow.
