Any on here also run a Motorbike to work?

[Teuchter]

I think it depends on the type of terrain you have to commute. If it is all done at sea level, then cycling all the time - why not !, however, if the terrain has a lot of hills, then cycling become impractical unless you are very fit, and commited. The hills between my town (Cheltenham) and Stroud rise about 130 metres above the valley floor. This is the most direct and shortest route, but you'd not want to do the 35 mile round trip every day on a cycle unless you were training for some sort of event, and even then you'd want some days off from it. Even a moped could do this day in and day out - although it would be taxed on some of the gradients.the riders would not have to be super fit to ride one.
Not everyone is super (cycle) fit at the end of the day.

Fair one, there are always going to be exceptions.

Incidentally the A46 between Cheltenham and Stroud is a great motorbike road. I lived in Cheltenham (Bishops Cleeve) for 4 years, the last year of which I commuted to near Bristol on a Thundercat. In summer I normally ignored the motorway and took that road on the way home.

 

[Linford]

Fair one, there are always going to be exceptions.

Incidentally the A46 between Cheltenham and Stroud is a great motorbike road. I lived in Cheltenham (Bishops Cleeve) for 4 years, the last year of which I commuted to near Bristol on a Thundercat. In summer I normally ignored the motorway and took that road on the way home.

You know the area well then. My commute is cyclable (chelt to cleeve), and I did do it for a season a few years ago, and hope to do a bit more of it when I can get another (decent) cycle.

My mate is a partner in a joinery co in Chalford. He commutes from Prestbury to there every day along with 3 of his kids who work with him in it. The most direct route is through the camp and Bisley after climbing Leckampton hill. He was commuting it on a super blackbird until last year when a car took him out on a junction in Oakley - made a reall mess of him