[bmxfury]

I was just wondering who here rides their bicycle to work?

Do you find it good for health benefits, do you ride in the rain too?

How many miles do you ride it?

Is it stressful, are you forced to ride on roads with cars?

[funetical]

I do. Couple of miles in each direction. Never when it's raining or I'm working nights. And very stressful. You could get hit. Again.

[CTD50]

I've been riding to work for nine years now, average about 10-1/2 months a year. When the roads get too nasty for my taste, I take the bus (car-free for 5 years now).

My commute started out at about 6-1/2 or 7 miles; moved, went up to 9. Changed job locations within the company, went to 2 -- but I soon found alternate routes that bumped it to anything from 4 to 9. A temporary relocation of job again took the commute to 9 miles; that lasted about 8 months. Back to the shorter routes again.

I've done all these rides on fat tires; one hardtail (the frame is due for an SS buildup this winter), and 4 different FS bikes.

Yes, you can get hit; yes, you will have trouble with drivers (who are stupid, generally). But the purity of pedaling will carry you further into a quality of life that's addictive, and healthy.

[funetical]

Originally Posted by CTD50

But the purity of pedaling will carry you further into a quality of life that's addictive, and healthy.

Wait addiction is unhealthy? Man that explains why my teeth are falling out.

[7thID]

I have been riding to work off and on for 15 years, spanning four countries. My longest was in England, that was 12 miles one way and WINDY! Been in DC for 10 years now and I commute about twice, maybe three times a week 9.5 miles one way. LOVE IT, esp when I see the cars piled up on 66 HA HA eat fumes suckers. I ride mostly on a paved bike trail, but I have 3 miles of heavy traffic roads. I try not to ride in the rain because of the increased danger and I knock off around December and start up end of Feb. Since I bought my new Novara Touring bike 2.5 years ago I have put 1000 miles commuting on it.

[7thID]

Oh forgot my new favorite scary story- just the other day I saw a car driving oddly all over the road- I pulled over and she passed me. I noticed she was texting-then she drove another 300 feet and cut hard right and hit a stop sign on my side of the road. People just keep your wits about you at all times on the road because stupid people abound.

[funetical]

I know! It sucks but you deal with them. Luck you.

[coco2]

My god, how lucky where you 7th...

[TxCyclist]

I ride to work most days. Pretty smooth ride except in a couple spots. Lost a bunch of weight and my heart doesn't yell at me everyday anymore.

[eaton]

I bike commute too. 8 mile RT. Each way it's 3 miles of coastal residential then 1 mile around a harbor. The ride gets sketchy on mornings when the surf is good and on summer afternoons.