Cyclists - how far do you commute to work?
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9 miles total.
We do have a Pedal Powered Forum which this will probably get moved to.
We do have a Pedal Powered Forum which this will probably get moved to.
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I had a colleague back in 2003 who started to cycle to work to get fitter.
2 weeks in he got knocked off and broke his arm and ankle I kid you not. Don’t think he ended up feeling much fitter.
2 weeks in he got knocked off and broke his arm and ankle I kid you not. Don’t think he ended up feeling much fitter.
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About 10 miles. Pretty manageable.
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I began 6 years ago and I've had 5x A&E attendances featuring 4 dislocated shoulders (2 each), 5 broken ribs and a fractured right elbow.
Four of them were black ice but I've got Ice Spikers on now
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Courting. Now there’s a word I haven’t heard since my Nan was alive, bless her soul.
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They should have insurance too. In busy built up places like central London, they can be just as dangerous to pedestrians as cars.
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2 miles currently, going up to 13 miles in a few weeks time - however with the backup of a car for the wet days, and no cycling on the early starts. Still, 4 days every 2 weeks I'd think.
Oh and much on quiet roads/offroad as possible.
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On both my car (£500+ 
) and £90 on the motorbike. 
OP - 11 miles can very different, if it's 11 miles of hills vs 11 miles of flat country roads.
If you don't cycle much, try and ease into it by either doing 1/2 days per week, or even driving/getting the train part of the way and cycling the rest. Doing 20 miles a day will soon hurt you if you're unfit.
As a rough guide, I can do the 13 miles in around 50-55 minutes on a decently fast bike, so that's about 16mph average. That's not taking it easy at any point. Heart rate in the high 180's peak and probably averaging high 160's.
Oh and much on quiet roads/offroad as possible.
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On both my car (£500+ ) and £90 on the motorbike. OP - 11 miles can very different, if it's 11 miles of hills vs 11 miles of flat country roads.
If you don't cycle much, try and ease into it by either doing 1/2 days per week, or even driving/getting the train part of the way and cycling the rest. Doing 20 miles a day will soon hurt you if you're unfit.
As a rough guide, I can do the 13 miles in around 50-55 minutes on a decently fast bike, so that's about 16mph average. That's not taking it easy at any point. Heart rate in the high 180's peak and probably averaging high 160's.
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2 miles currently, going up to 13 miles in a few weeks time - however with the backup of a car for the wet days, and no cycling on the early starts. Still, 4 days every 2 weeks I'd think.
Oh and much on quiet roads/offroad as possible.
I do
Ha, you fell for it!
Road Tax hasn't existed since the thirties
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Well since it doesn't exist and hasn't existed since 1937 you don't.
Bugger Diddums got me.
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12 miles each way. Did about 2000 miles last year, same the year before. Pretty much all off-road too.
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I'm old(ish), I still call it road taxHa, you fell for it!
Road Tax hasn't existed since the thirties
I'm old(ish), I still call it road tax
For you to call it road tax you would have to have had a car in 1937 at least...so you would have been born at least circa 1916 ish.
Yep, you're old!
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My sister had a colleague back around 2003-2004 who started cycling to work to get fitter - went under a lorry :|
These days especially there is no way I'd cycle to work unless there was cycle paths the whole way - used to do it when I was a student.
Question for any cyclists here.. how far do you commute on your bike? I am thinking of cycling to work to get fitter but it is 11 miles each way and not sure if this is abit far for someone who rarely cycles
Used to do 15 miles each way
I fell off my first day. (my own fault, not used to road bike), then on my 4th day got hit by a car.
Bike has sat at the end of my garden ever since.
And I am still unfit.
And to the OP.. 11miles is quite a bit. I wouldnt want to do that every day. Certainly not in poor weather.
Was around 20 years ago so it has worn down quite a bit since but hit the curb bit that goes across the turn in here at a bad angle, when it was wet from rain, as I tried to turn in:
https://goo.gl/maps/L8zHrZ6oB3o
Went straight over the handlebars and unceremoniously dumped half way down the slope infront of all my colleagues hah