Is an SS a perfect beginner commuter?

[ColinJ]

Ahhhh! you went to Bablake.

Ssshhh... (Mustn't help the stalkers track me down!)

It was in the days when bright kids from poor families could get Direct Grant places, and thick rich kids got their parents to flash the cash! That was just before they let girls in and before they had the under-11s there. When kids still actually rode bikes to school! If you are in Coundon Road when school finishes now there are traffic jams caused by parents queueing in their cars to pick the little darlings up.

 

[skudupnorth]

I love my Boardman SS/fixed and it is such a nice ride even in the wind and up the hills to work.The commute you are doing will be perfect for a SS and once you have got used to it it will do longer rides with no problems.