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How bad is your commute to work?

6thElement

Schrodinger's Immigrant
Jul 29, 2008
15,975
13,227
45 minutes door to door if I subway, same if I bike.

Prefer to avoid the crowds and crazies on the subway and take my chances with the traffic and f'wits I encounter when riding.
 

jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
19,839
8,441
Nowhere Man!
Elk and pigs are both migrating into New York. Wild Turkey are everywhere. We should make it through the year easily. I already have a cellar full of veggies and smoked fish. The hunt hasn't even started. Wood is all chopped and stacked, Gun and bow are sighted and ready to go. No poaching this year.
 

jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
19,839
8,441
Nowhere Man!
Replace "work" with "strip club", "fishin hole", or "place to get a beverage" in your case.
Nothing sucks worse then getting caught in traffic on the way to ride. After you have been napping all day. If it wasn't for all those jerks coming home from work I would be riding already. I hate them.
 

OGRipper

back alley ripper
Feb 3, 2004
10,654
1,129
NORCAL is the hizzle
16 miles from my place in SF to my office in Oakland. Reverse commute, but it still sucks to drive most days, mostly because it's so unpredictable - it can be anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes.

About 25 minutes by motorcycle - BRAAAP!

A little less than an hour if I ride my bike to BART (train) and take that over.
 

jstuhlman

bagpipe wanker
Dec 3, 2009
16,696
13,050
Cackalacka du Nord
For the three hellish years I lived in Florida, anywhere from 60 to 120 minutes to go from Plantation to West Palm Beach. In Charlotte, 20 mins. More importantly it's not Florida.
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,208
13,345
Portland, OR
damn, mine aint as bad as lots.
I do miss being able to go home for lunch.
On a few of the really nice days, I have been known to do that. I take Skyline and if I don't get stuck behind anyone, I can go end to end in 20 minutes. So 20min to Skyline, 20min on Skyline, then 20min home. I makes for a nice 2 hour lunch and one hell of a fun drive. As long as I don't get stuck behind someone. :shakefist:
 

Straya

Monkey
Jul 11, 2008
863
3
Straya
When I'm fit it takes me about 10 minutes to ride singletrack into the National Park I work in. 15 minutes by car cause I have to go the long way by road.
 

slyfink

Turbo Monkey
Sep 16, 2008
9,335
5,095
Ottawa, Canada
On my lunch hour I was able to bike to the cheap pizza place for a couple of slices and a can of pop, bike home, change my bottom bracket, lube my chain, make an espresso and be back at work, all within an hour. It's nice to live so close to work. But holy cow, what's with this heat wave?! I'm sweating like a pig in August... with the humidity it feels like 86°F out there... normal temps are supposed to be around 53°F...
 

Heidi

Der hund ist laut und braun
Aug 22, 2001
10,184
797
Bend, Oregon
My commute is timed in seconds. I live a few blocks from the office. I still ride because I either ride to the pool or just plain ride at lunch.
 

Leppah

Turbo Monkey
Mar 12, 2008
2,294
3
Utar
1.25 miles. About 4 minutes. I really should ride my bike, but I always have to pick my little girl up from daycare after work.