Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
@Diogenes, what's the range on it? Does it go down when loaded up with rack and panniers?
I commute 10 miles each way on my road bike through some very sketch traffic and this takes about 45mins, but I've been ran over and had a few incidents lately where if I didn't anticipate it I would have been dead and I'm nearly at the stage of stopping completely.
Instead I've come up with a cunning plan of using my old carrera mtb with city jet tyres and using the canal and parks to do all but the last 2-3 miles, it's a longer route making my daily commute 13 miles each way (138 weekly)and Its also a fair bit slower even though the towpath is really good.
Looking around I saw your post and @jowwy s and think this may be a solution, I'm going to book a 48hr test ride but wanted to have your take on it.
Cheers
I've used it for pottering about but the main trip so far was the 26 mile round trip detailed above. It took an hour or so each way and the best way of describing it is it flattened the route. I still worked but it wasn't unpleasantly difficult. I averaged about 13 mph which is pretty much my average anyway, difference is I did it in jeans and a jacket instead of shorts. As for weight affecting range, I dunno. It hauled my near 17st over the 26 miles and finished with over 30% showing so I think it would do you fine.
I'd say it would be a good commuter and the suspension on the forks would help with potholes and canal paths.