The Differences Between Commuting and Leisure Cycling

[jonny jeez]

cake!

+1 on the cake

 

[MrGrumpy]

proper commuting is beating PBs still 10mins of my best thus far this year

 

[Col5632]

proper commuting is beating PBs still 10mins of my best thus far this year

Its all i ever do, i like to see if im getting faster

 

[clarion]

Since I've been commuting by bike, I've got more into riding whatever the weather. Monday we did about 25 miles in the mizzle round Norfolk. Still a bloody great ride, even if it did take me a long time to get all the bikes clean last night.

 

[Leaway2]

I occasionally had a smug feeling of comparative wellbeing after a commute. Lots of tubbies in my office who wheezed in from the car park and creaked up the stairs, laden with snacks and Diet Coke. At home, everyone seems much slimmer an healthier than me, so I don't get to feel smug after a ride. Dreadful to admit to smugness, but I do not believe I am alone.

You are not alone.

 

[Gooner Mad Dog]

Commuting for me now a financial necessity 100 miles a week plus into Westminster since September teeth clenched trying to survive each trip. Traffic, roadworks, SMIDSY, phoning my other half once I get to work, spare clothes, rucksack lunch to go. Every journey a an endurance,nerve and stamina test at then end of the week a saving of £35 plus on a zone 1-3 misery card. Like someone rightly mentioned if you think battle weary commuters are going to jump on a bike on a Sunday and saunter along a canal for a hour or race off lightweight & carefree to some jovial cyclist rural retreat, you're wrong. Leisure cyclists are pleasure cyclists and sandwiched between a double decker and a taxi in sub zero temperatures with your lips freezing, toes numb, shoulders aching to get to a job I hate doesnt really compare.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Commuting for me now a financial necessity 100 miles a week plus into Westminster since September teeth clenched trying to survive each trip. Traffic, roadworks, SMIDSY, phoning my other half once I get to work, spare clothes, rucksack lunch to go. Every journey a an endurance,nerve and stamina test at then end of the week a saving of £35 plus on a zone 1-3 misery card. Like someone rightly mentioned if you think battle weary commuters are going to jump on a bike on a Sunday and saunter along a canal for a hour or race off lightweight & carefree to some jovial cyclist rural retreat, you're wrong. Leisure cyclists are pleasure cyclists and sandwiched between a double decker and a taxi in sub zero temperatures with your lips freezing, toes numb, shoulders aching to get to a job I hate doesnt really compare.

Your commute sounds horrendous, I'm glad mine is nothing like that. A lot of us that commute are club riders/leisure riders, I've been both commuting and club riding for about 25 years, I did a ride to Canons Ashby this morning, 66 miles on my geared bike, tomorrow I will be on my fixed about a quarter past seven for the ride to work.

 

[Col5632]

Leisure cyclists are pleasure cyclists and sandwiched between a double decker and a taxi in sub zero temperatures with your lips freezing, toes numb, shoulders aching to get to a job I hate doesnt really compare.

I know that feeling except the job part, its tuff getting the motivation for going out when its sooo cold

 

[Gooner Mad Dog]

Weather better now, I still prefer to cycle than sit underground in a steel tube with 500 glum Metro readers.

 

[subaqua]

Weather better now, I still prefer to cycle than sit underground in a steel tube with 500 glum Metro readers.

and it isn't the metro that makes them glum either, although it doesn'tdo a bad job of trying
I commute by bike as well and happily go out on the bike at weekends too, horses for courses I suppose.