Gas is crazy here(and everywhere else) in SoCalif. I am starting a new job soon and seriously thinking of commuting on my Coker. It's 4 miles each way to the train station where I will be riding from. Is this do-able? 😕 Any uni commuters?
Gas is crazy here(and everywhere else) in SoCalif. I am starting a new job soon and seriously thinking of commuting on my Coker. It's 4 miles each way to the train station where I will be riding from. Is this do-able? 😕 Any uni commuters?
4 miles is next to nothing on a coker. A very easy commute. If you do it at a relaxed pace it'll take half an hour at most. You might need a change of shirt it being California and presumably quite hot.
I have a 3 mile commute at the moment and I seem to take long routes 80% of the time because 3 miles is just too short.
At one point I was regularly doing 9 miles each way across London, and that was great.
Gas is crazy here(and everywhere else) in SoCalif.
Yeah, I know. We're paying up to '$2.40' (http://www.petrolprices.com/) per litre here. How does that compare to SoCalif?
As the others have said already, 4 miles should be no problem at all. I used to commute 8 miles each way in Central London on a 29", so you should be fine on a Coker.
How long is the train ride though? You might want to look at ditching the train as well and riding the whole way.
4 miles is perfect - you should definitely start doing it. When I got my first Coker (1999) I had a 4.5 or 5 mile commute and it was great. We later moved so it was either 8 or 10 miles each way and that was fine too. My latest office is 14 miles from home and that has turned out to be too far to do daily - I just don't have the time. I almost have it down to 60 minutes going in (a little downhill), but 28 miles in a day is going to be 2+ hours for me and that's too much 4 days a week. You will LOVE your commute at 4 miles each way.
