Your mode of transport prior to bike commuting?

[derrick]

Car.

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

Always riden to work even when I passed my test

 

[RichK]

was the local train for me

 

[subaqua]

Varied .
Sometimes was walk then bus onto tube and walk.

Sometimes walk bus train walk

Sometimes walk train walk

The best Olympic legacy was me getting back on a bike for more than a Pootle in park.

7 years now and getting more adventurous in what's cycleable and still being able to do a full days work and cycle home.

Summer time is best as will cycle train cycle to Cambridge then ride all way back at end of day

 

[confusedcyclist]

James Bond style jet pack.

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Safety first bond, good job for remembering to put your helmet on.

Personally, I used to commute by car, I did for 7 years (if I count my uni days too), now, it's been nearly 4 on the bike, couldn't be happier out of the rush hour traffic jams.

 

[mustang1]

Yep, jet pack for me too.

Seriously, I've never driven, so over the years its been a mix of bicycle, bus, legs, taxi, tuk-tuk, cycle rickshaw... depending on the distance, the weather, how I feel, and where I am (I've worked in Asia, as you might guess).

Currently I work from home, and when I get out of bed I'm closer to my desk than to my bike. And I really like the fact that cycling for me now is pure pleasure and nothing else.

As I was transitioning from leisure riding to commuting, I knew one day I would get bored of the bike commute. So I take regular breaks from the bike commute, not at present times of the year, but just when I feel like it. Usually one week every few months.

It makes me realize how lucky I am to ride. It sometimes gets to be a chore because in the way in to work, I realize there, well, work. So all I do it itch to get back on in the evenings.

 

[mustang1]

Varied .
Sometimes was walk then bus onto tube and walk.

Summer time is best as will cycle train cycle to Cambridge then ride all way back at end of day

Sounds good! On what kinda bike?

 

[BrumJim]

Car. Sorry - dull but true.

Started - Bus
Then bike
Then car
Then bike and car
Now bike. Occasionally train, very rarely car, used to run home once a week, but almost always, bike.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Safety first bond, good job for remembering to put your helmet on.

Personally, I used to commute by car, I did for 7 years (if I count my uni days too), now, it's been nearly 4 on the bike, couldn't be happier out of the rush hour traffic jams.

That is, without a doubt, the best bit of the cycle commute. The pure joy of riding past a colleague, in their car, and arriving 10 minutes before they do.

 

[cyberknight]

Car,no public transport to work as its an out of town location

 

[subaqua]

Sounds good! On what kinda bike?

Radon disc TCS 9

Hopefully you can see . Whanky protocols

 

[mcshroom]

Car for me too. I just had to drive to one of our other offices today. It reminded me how much I prefer cycling to work.

 

[AndyMack]

Taxi, plane, boat, plane then taxi is my routine for every job, when I'm off I use a car if the wife and I are going somewhere, a van if it's just me pottering about, and over the last month a bicycle purely for pleasure.

Edited to say, sorry I misread the thread title, I don't commute to work!

 

[HLaB]

Car, oh you don't mean this morning. Ive been doing car then bike ever since I moved jobs. Before I became a full time cycle commuter in a previous job I walked.

 

[growingvegetables]

I did bus, car, train ... so only an odd one to add? In one job, sometimes I walked, sometimes I biked, and sometimes I took a hantour. Not the skinny, skinny horses like this though.