Car V Bike

[Downward]

So it's just taken me 45 minutes to drive home this evening.
Compare this to 25 mins to 30 mins on a bike.

Oh how the drivers all laugh at the cyclists, well today I was not amused.

I think officially now here driving at school times takes longer than cycling.

I am glad I joined the revolution as I knew one day this would happen.

 

[Hilldodger]

So it's just taken me 45 minutes to drive home this evening.
Compare this to 25 mins to 30 mins on a bike.

Oh how the drivers all laugh at the cyclists, well today I was not amused.

I think officially now here driving at school times takes longer than cycling.

I am glad I joined the revolution as I knew one day this would happen.

Yeah, but next weekend I'm driving to Suffolk and then down to Essex and back.

Couldn't do that in a day on a bike............

 

[Chrisz]

Whilst I was at Uni I bet a mate that cycling was faster. Eventually we seet up a race. He had to stop for £5 of fuel (it was a 20 mile trip) and carry another mate as a passenger/judge. He was not allowed to break the speed limits and had to follow the same route I would be using.

We left my house at 08:00hrs and he then stopped for fuel whilst I cracked on. He passed me within 7 miles (tooting and laughing), however, as we approached Canterbury I serenely sailed past him stuck in traffinc about 4 miles from Uni

I was in the SU, showered, changed and with coffee by the time he had found a parking space and run in - with my £100 winnings


(admittedly, I sort of cheated - I made sure we left at at time guaranteed to catch the rush hour gridlock that blights Canterbury LOL )

 

[Downward]

You will never win racing against a bike if you are in a car in rush hour traffic. It's been like this for the 5 or so years.

Not around my commute though - I have been driving it for 9 years and it's got worse and worse.

It's got to the stage now where the rush hour is 7.15am to 9.30am

 

[purplepolly]

I'm hardly the fastest cyclist around (maybe average for a commuter) but I can still get to work quicker (legally) on the bike than I can in the car.

 

[4F]

Yeah, but next weekend I'm driving to Suffolk

Anywhere nice ?

 

[arranandy]

When I drive to work it takes approx. 20 minutes however when I cycle it takes 50 minutes. This is mainly due to the fact that my car route is 90% motorway

 

[Davidc]

You will never win racing against a bike if you are in a car in rush hour traffic. It's been like this for the 5 or so years.

Depends where you are from when that applies. IM limited E it's a lot more than 5 years.

I was at school in Croydon in the late 1960s and lived 7 miles away in Sutton.

It was always quicker and more consistent going to school by bike than bus or train + bus or in a car.

It was also usually quicker going home at around 4 pm.

I was a student in Bristol in the early 70s.

I had friends who did nearly the same journey as me, but by car. For 9 am lectures I was always quicker than them. 10 am it was 50/50. Other times they were quicker. It was downhill.

On the way back I had to cycle steeply uphill. If we finished between 4:30 and 6 pm I was always quicker.

More recently, about 10 years ago, I worked in Bristol. I regularly parked on the outskirts and cycled to work from there.

It was always quicker on weekdays than driving all the way from or to work, anytime between 7:30 am and 7 pm. By at least 15mins, typically 30mins. I only rode 2 1/2 miles!

 

[thomas]

School time added about 30 minutes extra to my old commute (if driving).

When the schools were out it was a 30 minute commute...so when the schools were in I didn't really have any excuse not to do the 60 minute cycle (other than New Lands Corner)

 

[tyred]

It really depends on how far you are going and the nature of the roads that you are travelling on. Where I live, the roads are very quiet and congestion just doesn't happen so for anything over a few miles, a car will be substantially faster. In a city type enviroment, that is reversed and the bike would probably be faster at most times of the day.

 

[dellzeqq]

In the southeast the bicycle wins on rush hour journeys that are substantially longer than the average commute. There are times of day when the bike is quickest on the A259 pretty much from Worthing to Brighton. Twenty years ago I rode the A40 and the M40 out to junction 5, and was the fastest thing on the road.