When I graduate my workplace will be almost 30 miles or 50km away, half of it is 6-10% hills. Does anyone commute daily on this sort of distance? Are you quite tired when you arrive to work?
Have you considered getting an electric hub or honda gx31- gx50cc/ robin-subaru 35cc power assist.? My commute would be 24 miles each way. I enjoy sleeping in my car at lunch, so i don't commute by bike!xxamr_corpxx said:When I graduate my workplace will be almost 30 miles or 50km away, half of it is 6-10% hills. Does anyone commute daily on this sort of distance? Are you quite tired when you arrive to work?
I commute at least 26 miles each way to work, at least a couple of times per week. I often turn them into longer loops. My favorite routes feature a number of climbs like you describe. More important to me than being tired is having a place to shower. I suppose that a good towel-bath kind of thing would be okay, but having a shower really helps.xxamr_corpxx said:When I graduate my workplace will be almost 30 miles or 50km away, half of it is 6-10% hills. Does anyone commute daily on this sort of distance? Are you quite tired when you arrive to work?
xxamr_corpxx said:When I graduate my workplace will be almost 30 miles or 50km away, half of it is 6-10% hills. Does anyone commute daily on this sort of distance? Are you quite tired when you arrive to work?
Good points, but what is the actual difference between ride and drive time? It isn't that great for me, only about 30 to 40 minutes longer each way to ride than drive, so the extra time comittment is only about an hour and a half including clean up. I save about 8 bucks in gas every day I ride because I have a truck that only gets about 20 mpg highway.Raleighroader said:On most commutes, 30 miles is going to be about a two-hour ride each way. There aren't very many jobs where you can devote four hours to riding and still work 8 hours during the day. Not to mention that for most of the year you will be doing some of that riding in the dark. I think 30 miles each way is too much of a stretch for most people.
If you are a racer who puts in a few hundred miles a week anyway, that's another story.
If you have a good place where you can park your car, you might consider driving half way with your bike, leave the car, and ride the rest of the way. That would reduce your bicycle portion of the commute to 15 miles each way.
hey, I did this before.Raleighroader said:...
If you have a good place where you can park your car, you might consider driving half way with your bike, leave the car, and ride the rest of the way. That would reduce your bicycle portion of the commute to 15 miles each way.
xxamr_corpxx said:When I graduate my workplace will be almost 30 miles or 50km away, half of it is 6-10% hills. Does anyone commute daily on this sort of distance? Are you quite tired when you arrive to work?
Robbie Hatfield said:This is not my exact ride, but it's darned close!
My commute is now 20 miles one way, and I do it every day the weather allows. I average around 19mph for the round trip commute! I also avoid using the car on weekends when the weather allows too!!
Robbie
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