The best thing about commuting on a bike

[itchyrider]

Is that i do all my exercise in my stride, & the weekend i can relax

 

[lejogger]

Also, commuting on your winter/commuter bike makes you super fit, so when you go out at the weekend on the carbon you go twice as fast!!

 

[corshamjim]

I go out on my winter/commuter bike at the weekends too - it doesn't make me super-fit, but I do enjoy it!

 

[sabian92]

Seeing those mugs at petrol stations cringing at the prices while you get there for free.

 

[SportMonkey]

It's not free with the amount of food I'm eating.

 

[GrasB]

The look of astonishment when you tell people you consider a 250 mile week a 'short' week

 

[The_East_Stand_View]

Itchy. Im with you dude. I also love not paying my expensive gym membership and fuel!

 

[subaqua]

getting home before the bus across the olympic park from north to the south plaza would have got me to public transport.



or


zipping past the stationary traffic on eastway knowing a year ago i would have been that traffic

 

[Flyingfox]

Getting hot and sweaty through choice rather than sufferance on a packed train.

 

[biggs682]

listening to fellow office workers complaining about gym membership costs and moaning about price of petrol , when they live closer to work than me

 

[Tynan]

because it makes what would otherwise at best being a humdrum if not tedious commute something enjoyable (most of the time anyway)

 

[mcshroom]

Getting paid for it (ok I was commuting between offices, but 1 hour of company time on the bike today

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More seriously. I would say the best thing about commuting by bike is just how awake I feel when I get to work in the morning. I can't believe how different I feel from when I used to drive and use the site bus to get to work.

 

[gregsid]

Also, commuting on your winter/commuter bike makes you super fit, so when you go out at the weekend on the carbon you go twice as fast!!

I think the same too! I commute on my city bike (on iffy and wet days) and then use my aluminium racer on dry days; it then feels like I'm riding on air!

I love both though.

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

The £70+ per month I save on train tickets.

But nothing beats when the Blackwall or Limehouse link tunnel is closed and you just wizz pass everybody sitting in their cars. Fantastic.

 

[peppyuk]

No stress, no big fuel bill. Just a nice relaxing ride to work and a slimmer fitter me. Add to that showering at work so I save a little more fuel costs too!

Now when I go out in the car on the weekend it's become something special again, like it should be.