Comments on: Challenge A Friend to Commute by Bike

By: Ryan Charlesworth

Ryan Charlesworth — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:40:10 +0000

Amazingly depending on the time of day a 22 mile commute can take a similar time by car as it does by bike

I ride between Nottingham and Derby and it takes roughly an hour to trave to work during rush hour. On a bik it takes 1 hour and 15 minutes? The extra health benfits an feeling i get from cycling far outweights the loss of 15 minutes. The crazy thing is when moving I travel at up to 80 iles and hour by bike its 20.

Goes to show ho long I am sat idle in a car??

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By: No

No — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:57:21 +0000

I couldn’t understand his insistence on other people wearing helmets either – leave it as personal choice.
I also didn’t think his comments on pedestrians were that great – they do have a right to use the road and the one I think he almost hit had not just ‘leaped out’.

By: tejvan

tejvan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:35:59 +0000

Very interesting. That’s a huge time saving. It’s crazy so many people spend two hours a day driving to work.

By: John Gallagher

John Gallagher — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:52:37 +0000

As a cash-strapped student living in south London in the early 80s, my house-mates and I tried various means of getting to college in central London, a distance of about 7 miles or so. The approximate times taken for the different modes of transport were:

1. moped – about 15 minutes;
2. bicycle – average about 25 minutes, quickest time was 22 minutes;
3. car – about an hour, much more if on-street parking spaces were rare;
4. tube – about an hour, plus walking to / from tube stations;
5. bus – about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Incidentally, the moped was a single-seater and the car was a rapidly dissolving (and not very reliable Mini).

The bikes won the day …