Longest regular commute?

when I ride my Coker to school, it's 3 miles there and 3 miles back,
then I ride 1 mile to track practice and 1 mile home. so when I ride my
Coker, it's 8 miles. but I usually walk, except for riding to track
practice. so on average, I walk 6 miles, unicycle 2 miles, and run ~5
miles per day. maybe that's why I've been so tired lately.... q-: yes,
more information than you wanted

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Round trip to school is 7 miles each way. I used to make this trip on my
29" a couple of times a week.

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Round trip Coker ride is 12 miles or about 20km.

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my round trip is between 10-12 miles, depending on which route i take.

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My basic commute distance is 8.5 miles each way, 17 miles total or 27km.
But most days I extend it a couple of miles - call it 30km round trip.

I only just recently started to be able to ride on unicycle again this
year. Without daylight savings time, I don't get off work early enough
to ride home in the light and the route from my new office is scary and
bad at night. Now that it's light it's great but since it takes about 45
minutes each way I haven't yet done all 5 days commuting on unicycle
(it's only 30 minutes each way on bike). But I hope next week to do a
"complete unicycle commute" - all 5 days.

Last spring while training for 24 hour racing, in each week of April, I
was doing 170 to 280km which was basically 5 days a week commuting plus
at least one (but usually two) weekend rides.

Getting all that mileage in "for free" just commuting is great. It's a
minimum of 350m of climbing too, which is great exercise.

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My commute is 24 km round trip but often I take the bus part way in the
mornings to allow for a little extra snooze time. I do the commute on
my 29'er with its BA.

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My trip to work is about 9 miles each way. I can do it mostly off-road
and use my 26x3. I try to take the unicycle at least once a week,
probably more in the summer - the rest of the time I use a bike (road
mostly, I've hardly ridden my mountain bike since I've been into
unicycling).

Rob

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I work here at home but have been carless for quite a while, so I do
almost all my errands by bike or yike. The other day was 16 miles by
bike plus another 6 on the uni. Someday soon I hope to have a trailer
for the bike so that I can deliver 36" wheels in their boxes to the UPS
place by cycle.

As my uni training continues the bike will be used less for errands in
order to get the unicycle miles in each day.

I'm going to start another thread about mile equivalency to avoid
jacking this one.

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I used to commute on Coker from mid-Brooklyn to the Upper West Side of
Manhattan, 13.5 miles each way (about 22km?). I liked the fact that I
rode a marathon a day. It still amazes me that the entire ride took
about 2:10, meaning that world-class runners could outpace me by a
couple minutes. I don't get that.

Now my commute is a measly 5 miles each way, but it's really hilly. It
takes me about 25 minutes. And on Sundays I ride about 17 miles (one
way) before driving home from Manhattan with my family.

I'm getting my Schlumpf guni soon and look forward to testing it for
speed. I have a feeling it might speed up my ride a little.

David Stone

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David_Stone said:

*I used to commute on Coker from mid-Brooklyn to the Upper West Side
of Manhattan, 13.5 miles each way (about 22km?). I liked the fact that
I rode a marathon a day.
David Stone *

43km a day! That sounds like it would be very hard to top. You must
have been averaging around 20km which is very respectible.

I wish I could maintain an average speed that high, alas traffic
conspires against me.

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I used to do 10 miles each way through London traffic. That was pretty
cool. In summer with added bits I was often riding 25-30 miles a day
just on my commute.

At the moment my commute most days is 4.5 miles there and 11 or 12 back,
due to taking long cuts in the evenings.

It's between half and three quarters off road depending on how much of a
hurry I'm in. My normal route was cunningly chosen by drawing a straight
line on the map and going on the roads and tracks closest to it, it goes
up and down a few hills.

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peter.bier said:

*43km a day! That sounds like it would be very hard to top. You must
have been averaging around 20km which is very respectible.

I wish I could maintain an average speed that high, alas traffic
conspires against me. *

Right. I had some bad-traffic parts that slowed me down to about 10mph,
and then I had some really fast parts like the downhill park ride at the
end, where I rode the last mile at about 20mph. For a lot of the ride, I
maintained about 15mph. I timed every aspect of the ride, so I knew, for
example, that the Brooklyn Bridge, 1.5 miles long, took 7 minutes. The
West Side Bike Path, 5 miles long, took 20 minutes on a good day
(averaging 15 mph).

I'm guessing that the guni will allow some really fast speeds (maybe
23-25mph?) on straight-aways and downhills but that the smaller wheel
will force me to go slower-than-a-Coker on the uphills. I'll report
about it as soon as it arrives. Oh, and I'd better get a working
speedometer.

David

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peter.bier said:

*It got me pondering, "What is the longest distance that anyone
regularly rides to get to and from work*?"
*

Does this count? I work at home. At least several times/week, I leave
work, ride to a park a half mile away, circle the park twice (3.2 mi x
2) and return to "work."

That make 7.4 miles, juggling 3 clubs the whole time and listneing to
tapes to prevent boredom.

Billy

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One guy I know says he would regularly ride 17 miles each way to work.
I'm pretty sure he did it regularly at one point.

34 a day commute 🙂

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That wouldn't be Mark Stephens (Cokerhead) by any chance would it?

If you're reading Mark, how are you doing these days? Still burning
through many Coker tires?!

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Out of the commuters, how many of you ride it on the road during rush
hour? My summer job is going to be about 3-4 miles away and I am
reluctant to ride a uni in the street. A bike seems like it would be
safer since I would be going faster. Most of the trip will be on
heavily congested roads and northern va is infamous for bad drivers.

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I ride on the roads in rush hour.

http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/albuw48

You have to be certain of two things, firstly that you aren't going to
fall off in the middle of traffic and secondly that you're taking notice
of what's going on around you. Other than that, with a big wheel
(29er+), you're at the same speed as a slow cyclist and somewhat more
visible, so it isn't a problem.

Joe

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I try to avoid rush hour around here if I can. I think it depends on
what your rush hour is like. Congestion is not so bad, but high speeds
are. Oftentimes at rush hour in less-congested areas the speeds are
high and a bit reckless as people are stressed out, have just stopped at
the local bar, are going to pick up the kids, facing a 2 hour commute,
etc etc. A typical speed is 50% above the posted limit.

Also here there are numerous small hills and blind curves, with little
or no shoulder. So visibility is often compromised. The shoulder is
often chewed up and rough.

A flashing taillight or two seems to make the cars give me a wider
berth, which is really good.

Finally, it also depends on the sun. If the cars are looking into the
setting or rising sun when they happen upon you, they may not even be
able to see that you are there.

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nathan said:

*That wouldn't be Mark Stephens (Cokerhead) by any chance would it?

If you're reading Mark, how are you doing these days? Still burning
through many Coker tires?!

---Nathan *

Nope. That guy sounds pretty hardcore though (Cokerhead).

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