Show us your commuting bike and describe your route

[HLaB]

I WfH most days but when I go to the office it's a flat 4 miles to the Station a 40min train journey and 11.5 miles to the office. Its slightly hillier in the morning and takes me around 45-50mins, at night it's about 40-45 min on this:

 

[Drago]

Dont have any pictures of my commuter, and it ended up going to a retirement home at Biggs682's house.

7 miles of unlit country roads, then depending on where I was working either a mile or 3 miles of urban roads with a quick dash across an A road roundabout, or a further 7 or 8 miles of urban roads and cycle paths. That was days, latest, nights, blazing heat or -18°C frost. It's was never too wet, dry, hot, cold etc.

Indeed, during one snowfall I made it into work on my bike, completely undermining those who lived 3 or 4 miles away who'd phoned in to say they couldn't get in. When I arrived, cold and bedraggled but with a big grin on my fizzog, the Inspector got straight on the blower and ordered the lazy absentees to walk in. I was popular!

 

[cyberknight]

The project bike sadly got sold due to economics which i was gutted about so now im back to the carrera .
This was taken when new so its had a replacement saddle and the gear levers now have a patina of use .

 

[ianrauk]

My daily commuter and tourer. Bought in 2019. Planet X Tempest Ti.
It's served me well since bought and can imagine it's going to serve me well for many years to come. I love it, it's a great ride.

 

[Sixmile]

This is my new commuter. I've been a year-round daily commuter for 35 years, last 9 years the R/T commute is just over 20 miles. Haven't had a new bike in 15 years until this one. Ti frame Moots gravel bike with a mullet build (mountain in the back, road in the front) for a wider gear range. Fenders from Rene Herse, ready for the year-round elements here in N Ireland!

BTW, my commute is from Lisburn to Belfast, sorry no pix!

Best regards,
Nathan



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Hi from a Doagh to Belfast commuter.

Now that's a set of wheels. I don't know what the chinese writing says but adds to the intrigue. Also, I've never seen a 50% mudguard on a front wheel like this. Does your commute involve the Lagan towpath?

 

[figbat]

Here is my ‘commuting’ bike, although in truth:

1. I’ll sometimes commute on something else, if the whim takes me
2. I use this for other utility duties too.

My route - I ride about 500 yards out of my village onto a byway which leads to a restricted byway, which ultimately leads to the Ridgeway. I follow this into Streatley, cross the river to Goring and then follow rural back roads, up a tough climb and then into work. About 13 miles one way.

For the return route I often drop down Whitchurch Hill and catch the bridlepath alongside the Thames back to Goring, then Ridgeway home.

 

[Alex321]

I only have one bike I ride regularly - my Cube Attain GTC
Various photos of it on here in the photo threads MBIFO ...

Such as:

I usually commute to work 2 days a week, WFH the other three weekdays, with the commute being a little over 15 miles each way, about 50% rural, 50% in the city of Cardiff.

Just at the moment, I'm off the bike, having broken my left arm badly coming off it on the commute 5 weeks ago. I think it will be at least 2-3 weeks more before I'm fit to ride again.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Very much a "bitsa" - An Edinburgh Cycles tourer got bent in a crash, some bits made it onto a Claud Butler hybrid that got tweaked but the frame was never straight from new - couldn't ever take hands off bars, picked up a Giant years back and made something useable of the bikes, swapped to butterfly bars and now with an ebike conversion (and a cheap Chinese rear mech as a last-minute emergency buy when I found that the spare RD I had on my shelf to replace a bent one was also u/s - let's see how long that lasts!)

Current route isn't too far - about 4 miles - steep hill at one end and the delights of tram tracks at the other

 

[wiggydiggy]

First commute in for a while (I WFH normally) and my old route hasn't changed much. Its 15 miles with 1000ft of climbing each each way. Most of it is on road with a short section on a greenway. Once in town (Leeds) it's a mixture of segregated cycle paths and on road again, but the never ending roadworks in the city centre mean the last 3 miles take me as long as the previous 6! Door to door its about 70-80mins, actual riding time around 60-70 minutes.

This is looking back on Leeds, great road going down in the morning but a very long drag out in the evening! Bike is a Raleigh Motus, the e-assist really helps on the hills when carrying weight.

Just the one pannier, I really should have used 2 rather than squeezing everything into one.

 

[fossyant]

A Moots for commuting? Blimey.

So long as you've got somewhere safe to lock it up, why not. Many years ago I spotted someone commuting on a Colnago CX bike a fair few times. Oh that's nice I thought. Roll on many years, I picked up one myself last year, although it's only ever once commuted due to a 'breakdown' on the regular commuter.

 

[fossyant]

The regular:-