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I got a second-hand Brompton for the exact same use case. No ragrets.
Edit: Received a “that’s a cool bike!” from a small child at the station this morning, so there’s also that.
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A friend of mine has lock-up bikes at either end of train journey and is quite pleased.
I can't imagine myself doing it - as the logistics involved in maintaining two bikes, one of which is far from home just does my head in.I'd very much go for the folding bike option myself.
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25km is about the same as my commute, takes me roughly an hour door-to-door which is about the same amount of time as it would take to drive including sitting in traffic, parking and walking from the car park.
i guess it depends on your route/hills/infrastructure/etc.i did the folding bike + train thing for a while which was fine (dahon uno with coaster brake - actually quite fun to ride) but the train is expensive, and door to door was still about an hour.
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Rambling... I can't be arsed driving to work anymore, but I technically don't need to, as I can ride a bike (or two) instead.
So basically only two parts of my commute would be done by cycling, and the rest via train. 10 minutes biking from home to the station, then later another 20 mintues from the station to work - and back of course.
It would be an utter delight if I could take the Marin, but the Dutch railway company doesn't approve this during rush hour, which is kind of understandable. Sooo I have quite some options here, but the best ones are definitely these two:
1) Use the current lock-up bike to get to the station. Then take the train, then jump on another lock-up bike and ride to work. Now this requires the purchase of another lock-up bike, which is not a huge investment, but there's never enough bike parking space at the given station and I will need to buy two new locks, waste time on locking, unlocking, putting the lock away, bla-bla, I know, first world problems.
2) Get a folding bike. Been checking folding bikes in the past days, and meh. I've never ridden one, and I'm not sure if I'd like them. It doesn't help that the fiddly, sucky, ugly and generally cheapishly made models are the ones that don't cost an arm and a leg - however they are still overpriced. I checked used Bromptons, well, my car is worth less than a 2-speed model. On the long term this might be a good investment though. But who can plan for the long term this crazy ass world?
The whole route from home to work is about 25 km. I technically could skip the train part and just go on two wheels. I will definitely do it for fun on a few occasions, but not daily. I could also get an ebike, but then again we're looking at a pile of cash.
I'll figure something out.