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@hugo7
Surely you're best off riding the tyres you like riding on.
A light nippy bike with thin tyres is more fun than a fat heavy beast.... except when caning it around on something you can hop up and down curbs on is better...
Different bikes have different uses. Different people like different bikes. All of them will get you to and from work in roughly the same time.
If you really want to speed up your commute leave earlier. I went to work at 7am a couple of weeks ago and start to finish it took at least 1/3 off.
Also fwiw, when I bought my first bike (Giant Crs 2.0) in london from cycle surgery, the guy told me not to bother with anything "faster" as even with the best will in the world you'll only knock a couple of mins off a commute.
Lesion: cyclesurgery > evans