Artificial results - cyclists quickest transport?

**MisterD** · 2nd March 2006, 14:32

Why don't we get a look in at these things?

I'd be interested to see if a big sportbike was quicker through traffic than a smaller scoot....

**Lou Girardin** · 2nd March 2006, 14:48

We are the forgotten ones aren't we.
Mind you, we'd embarrass the hell out of all of 'em.
There was no mention of the bikes complying with all traffic laws either, strangely enough.

**Motu** · 2nd March 2006, 15:01

A push bike coming from Henderson could beat a bike no problem I'd say - they have a clear run down the North Western,don't even have to stop at the lights anymore,they have a bridge all to themselves.I commuted from Henderson for a year,and it's the most erratic commute I've ever done - half an hours difference from one day to the next for no reason...on a bad day the pushie would get a couple of coffees in before you got to work on your bike.

**GR81** · 2nd March 2006, 15:12

for all those cyclists wearing lycra to stay cool while riding... wait till it rains ya little buggers

**Jabez** · 2nd March 2006, 15:31

Originally Posted by Motu

A push bike coming from Henderson could beat a bike no problem I'd say - they have a clear run down the North Western,don't even have to stop at the lights anymore,they have a bridge all to themselves.I commuted from Henderson for a year,and it's the most erratic commute I've ever done - half an hours difference from one day to the next for no reason...on a bad day the pushie would get a couple of coffees in before you got to work on your bike.

Don't agree.
I leave from Upper Queen st to Glendene & I caught up to a push bike at Te Atatu off ramp that left 10 mins before me....

I have my wife on the back most of the time, so I am not taking any risks..

**oldrider** · 2nd March 2006, 16:03

Motorcycles and scooters etc are noticeably absent, worthless stacked test!

**HenryDorsetCase** · 2nd March 2006, 16:54

I have to go across the christchurch CBD to get to work, from the leafy streets of suburbia.

because of the one way system, it is a dead heat for me if i cycle to work or bring the motorbike. public transport would take me an hour (and Im not a fan of it). Car is ten minutes longer than the bike so say half an hour.

I actually like commuting by pushbike.. its fairly low stress the way I go, not to many mongs in breeder boxes, or schools, or arse pucker intersections.

but I bought the 400 to work today... didnt wake up till ten past 8.....

**marty** · 2nd March 2006, 17:04

geex took me 13 minutes to get home from work today.

it is 24kms though

**FlyingDutchMan** · 2nd March 2006, 21:30

It normally takes 15 mins to do my daily commute... walking. On the bike its a rediculously short 3mins... not even time for it to warm up.

**erik** · 2nd March 2006, 21:39

There's been a couple of times when I've noticed one of my lecturer's leaving AUT at the same time I was leaving on the Zeal and then saw him again on Gt North road just after getting off the motorway in Waterview. So I'd say bicycles and motorcycles must be fairly equal though.

My knees wouldn't cope if I tried to cycle 16k's to and from uni each day.

**Karma** · 2nd March 2006, 21:46

I do CBD to Kohi on Tamaki drive... 15mins of fairly sedate riding... no way I'm fit enough to cycle at the moment... maybe next summer.

**avgas** · 2nd March 2006, 21:46

In rush hour traffic it can take me up to 45 mins to go into town from home (in car), i can WALK this same distance (approx 4-5k) at the same time in 55. The motorbike (without weaving through traffic) takes up to 25 (or as quick as 3 mins

).

**texmo** · 2nd March 2006, 22:53

I couriered on a cbr250rr and a belladonna. there are no two ways about it scooters are faster in heavy traffic and around town a tuned scooter or a giler runner is faster than a bike on the motorway in med-heavy traffic as well.

**Rashika** · 3rd March 2006, 07:36

Christchurch: 10kms each way, morning cycle 25mins vs 12 mins by car (with option of going along a 100kms road for about 5kms), afternoon cycle 25mins vs 25-30 mins by car.

Much nicer by pushbike too, nice bush areas to pass through, and I dont break any road rules to get there either.... better than having to wait in traffic in the car

Worse part: attempting to make it through the sockburn roundabout without being hit..... fkn awful!

Best part: saving a tank of petrol for the bike a week by pushbiking

**Grahameeboy** · 3rd March 2006, 07:53

A couple of interesting points.

Cyclists run red lights which they should so that would have helped the margin.

Okay for a car to use bus lane if they pick up 2 passengers......incentive obviously to reduce traffic congestion which is what motorbikes do but the bus lane law seems ??....funny that.