This morning's commute and other commuting stories

there are 24 sets of lights on my 3.5 mile commute.

I RLJ all day.

It takes you all day to ride 3.5 miles?

You should walk it instead.

dj pls

there are 24 sets of lights on my 3.5 mile commute.

I RLJ all day.

You no gets catched?

Old school

13 + light controlled 7 pedestrian crossings over 7 miles. I use a few minor diversions and bike paths to knock out another 6. There's two that I'll never get caught by because of their timing in relation to others.

Back when I was doing a 15 mile commute, it was still 13 but with more light controlled crossings.

Varies between 9 sets (I think) and what feels like several thousand depending on which of the approximately 6 mile routes I take.

Like several people above I try and extend it to 10 miles if I fancy something a little more hilly / quiet / bucolic

I think it's partly about timing as well. I don't know the exact number of lights I pass, but on my road bike I can do Finchley road all the way from Fortune Green to Adelaide road in about 5 minutes, with a clear bus lane. If the timing is wrong, it's more than twice that.

There's 87 sets of traffic lights between my house and my office in moorgate.

just under an 11 mile commute.

If you get on Regents Canal at Kingsland Rd not so many. That was my old commute... I don't miss Canary Wharf.

personally i wouldn't ride down the canal. i'd only ever do that if i were riding somewhere with my girlfriend and wanted to take her on a slow route taking in some sights. people who blast down the canal whilst others are walking or riding slowly are fking twats.

plus i don't want to prolong my commute by going slowly down a canal, if i'm not rushing i'll do that, otherwise it's on the roads and pretty dam as fast as i can go.

Canal paths. Big fucking super heroes strava gunning split seconds off their miserable lives. If you're such a marvel use the tossing road like all the other grown ups!

Didn't Tricity do about 40 miles each way at one point?

A guy I used to work with did 50 miles from Watford to motspur park when he worked in the office, but he also spend half the year on a boat so he he had some pent up energy!

Personally the longest I've done is 35 a day (not including polo and extra miles to go to compass drinks) and i felt noticeably more tired on the way home on Friday than doing 20 or so... admittedly the reason I know Tricity did a massive commute is because after some nights out I'd be heading home around the same time she was heading past my place... This may have contributed to my Friday tiredness.

Heh.

I never did both ways; usually 40 miles in then train home or vice versa (though admittedly that was 6 miles to/from stations so 52 miles all in). It was glorious riding back on summer evenings, but I can't say I had much of a social life. It did make knocking out centuries over the weekend a piece of cake, though.

True that traffic gets better after, er, the M25 but I was still going from Hackney across London, so that was usually fairly tedious. You get used to it though.

^train? so lazy

Purple_mj commutes ridiculous distance too occasionally.

But then again, he'll knock out 120 miles to go and buy a pint of milk.

9 mile commute, 7 sets of lights, +1 temporary light. What fun I had counting this morning.

How do you people have next to no lights? Are you living in the Shetlands or something??

Sheffield and my commute is tweaked to avoid lights. It's not the shortest but is quicker.

Did get caught on a couple of lights though and was leapfrogging a guy who was driving with a flat tyre, for over 2 miles. Collossal Cock-Juggling Weapon-Twat

Not on Penistone Rd. then.
When I was a lad etc. there was only one set of lights between Leppings Lane and Shalesmoor.

Currently need to ride 11 miles to find the nearest lights ... sometimes do this for the fun of it.

Lights = time to show off practise track-standing. More lights, not a bad thing. Also good way to be first off the the lights (then inevitably get eaten by a roadie hitting his big ring 100m later).

I'm too tired to bother trackstanding at most stops now. I just collapse over the top tube :)

People not in London with their lack of lights >>>

I know. Mind you they have hills to deal with. Proper ones, that go on for more than 10m.

Yesterday on the way home:
Some nodder in fluo yellow, riding a "BUTLER" decides that the 'turn left only' lights halfway down the Mall, eastbound Mall "sprint out of the saddle straight ahead with your head down". This was as the traffic from Malborough Rd turned across the our three lanes towards Buck House. Cue the squealing of brakes, some ridiculous shouting by him at the cars, and my heart racing at 180bpm as I witness my first apparent suicide attempt. Fucking cyclists.

I did get to high five a woman hailing a cab, while riding over Waterloo bridge though. So all in all a mixed commute

Purple_mj commutes ridiculous distance too occasionally.

But then again, he'll knock out 120 miles to go and buy a pint of milk.

That guy is a legend. Not seen him in ages.

My commute is Bow to Camden. I take a bit of a loop around to the north through back streets that avoids the majority of them. Most of the lights I hit are in the last mile when I come through Camden.

I used to do the canal to do Bow to Camden, you have to come up for a bit at Islington.

I know. Mind you they have hills to enjoy. Proper ones, that go on for more than 10m.

ftfy

Outside the M25 >>>