You can cycle how far!!!???

[JonnyBlade]

12 miles a day round trip to work and back. Nice hot shower when I get there too

I feel all groggy if I don't cycle

 

[ColinJ]

i love it when i tell people i ride 25 miles to work, the look on their face is a picture. and what cracks me up is when you're talking to people about getting fit and they say "But it's alright for you... you can do 25 miles".

25 miles each way - that's pretty impressive; more than I'd want to do regularly.

I did a few summer commutes to my old job which was 15 miles each way and a bit lumpy, but I couldn't be bothered doing it in bad weather, or in the dark in winter.

 

[GrasB]

I've had this before. Another good one is people who ask, genuinely, if you're riding the Tour de France this year.

One day I opened up down Madingly hill as normal, touching on 40mph down a 3-5% gradient with a friend behind me in their car. When we get to work they ask me "so every time we were joking about the Tour de France you were serious!" I just looked at them like...

It's really funny when you get students who think they're a bit special on a bike & start talking like they've gone a long way when they've done a 30 mile ride on the weekend.. just quietly dropping in something about 25mile each way commutes.

 

[fossyant]

i love it when i tell people i ride 25 miles to work, the look on their face is a picture. and what cracks me up is when you're talking to people about getting fit and they say "But it's alright for you... you can do 25 miles".

Like i could always do it?? Like i was born like it LOL

Do they not realise that i had to work up to it?

No, you are weird like all us cyclists.........................

 

[fossyant]

I will / won't even go into how difficult it's been to get my shoulder fixed over the last TWO years... Being a fit cyclist, riding 100 mile sportives, having a laugh on the velodrome for 2 hours at a go is a bit much.. honest, so if I sit on my fat ass and moaned it hurt might have got me there quicker........

TBH it was sorted ASAP when I went back in November (2 years after accident) and the top consultant was like "oh I'm surprised you are back".... quick tests, more needles shoved in, "oh you need fixing". I was fixed a week ago, and was out of the hospital within 5 hours of the operation.....(overnight normally, but I am a hard nutter cyclist...like we all are ) Not allowed to ride on road for 6 weeks until the bones sort themselves out.

 

[palinurus]

I work from home so no commuting but my fellow councillors are clearly so worried by the fact I cycle to council and committee meetings - a couple of miles and at night, no less - that they've started calling by to offer me a lift

Feels great turning them down, don't it?

 

[david1701]

I feel all groggy if I don't cycle

I actually massively regretted driving today, I was all antsy and walking about

 

[TheDoctor]

I'm not sure I'd bother with the bike for 1.5 miles - I think I'd walk it!

I like the extra 15 minutes in bed

 

[albal]

currently on a job thats 8 mile rd trip half road half off road. Thats the bit i enjoy most! the work is pants

 

[pshore]

I work from home so no commuting but my fellow councillors are clearly so worried by the fact I cycle to council and committee meetings - a couple of miles and at night, no less - that they've started calling by to offer me a lift

The cynic in me says they don't want you cycling because if you do, and they don't, it'll look bad for them - especially if they are trying to convince the public to not drive.

 

[eldudino]

We're going down to an undisclosed location in Lincolnshire at Easter for Frood's mum's birthday. We're taking the train to Grimsby and cycling the 30 miles between there and said location.

You'll be fine - Lincs is dead flat (I grew up in an undisclosed location 30 miles from Grimsby!) . Just stay away from the Wolds and practice riding into the wind!

 

[Fnaar]

I occasioanally cycle to work (17 ish miles each way... did it 18 times last year... can't always do it... weather, time I'm due to start, kid-related-time-issues etc) and people think I'm mad.

When I do it, it's brilliant! Sets me right up for the day

 

[darkstar]

It's common even for first language english speakers. You see this a lot from people that get sent from the jobcentre/new deal for such work - that is often temporary in nature, so it hardly matters. To a certain extent I can see where some of them are coming from as I had a friend who had a packing job 15 miles away and when his car broke he stopped going into work and that was that. They can fire whoever they like, so I don't see it as an insurmountable problem, you might as well start from a position of assuming someone's going to turn up, the turnover rate is high enough anyway. When I've been on unpaid placements you get an idea fairly quickly after a week how likely it is someone is to turn up or not.

It was an agency, and the system was inherently unfair. As agency workers, we were paid £3 per hour less, yet were expected to work harder, with fewer breaks. If there was not enough work, they could send any one of us home at any given time, which considering some commuted half an hour by car to get to work, and were in dire need of the money, is sickening. I felt awful because my boss favored myself and my mate because we were white, British and played cricket. So if anyone had to go home, even if we told him it was our turn, he refused and sent someone else home. I obviously wont name the company, but I think it's a non issue as many warehouses seem to be similar (in my experience).

So it was never an issue of if a worker would get to work or not, it was if they'd have to drive home again after working an hour. The people wanted to work, and some even walked from the nearest town, which was 4 miles each way in heavy work boots, which considering it's a night shift, 8 hours of manual work, I found incredible.

 

[david1701]

ok I may have been talked into cycling to see a friend in the netherlands hehehehehee but I might take the train to the euro tunnel as its only another 17 quid and saves like 400km

 

[StuAff]

Unfortunately, there is a sizable majority of the population who think that anymore than riding around the park is a fantastic feat and only super humans can ride more than a few miles without expiring or need the attention of medical staff. You only have to see the reaction of work colleagues when they ask how far you ride on a weekly basis to see the astonishment on their faces.

+1. Mind you, plenty of people at work can't seem to manage to get to the first floor without a lift....