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@charlie_lcc
It's all about time. There are 24 hours in a day, Spending 2 or more hours a day commuting is not good for psychological health.
The steamroller might bring your average speed up enough to make the shorter option doable. The difficulty with a geared bike is that the speed gain is on the long descents, massively increasing the risk of injury, doing it every day sometimes with rain and snow, always sharing the road with sleepy car commuters.
Is there a way you can do part of the longer trip on bus or train to catch up on sleep?