Who rides a bike to work every day??

[magicfairy]

Most fun I have all day - riding to work

[wil]

well cant help but notice in the short space of time all the people who ride to work have posted here already, hmmm, shouldnt you be, well, erm working??

i have an excuse, i am between jobs,

[magicfairy]

Lunch hour

[Northpoint]

Agreed, riding to work is a heck of a lot more fun than sitting in the car. Swerve, weave, duck, rev, stoppie.....

I have to agree - riding the bike to work is my favourite part of the day...

[vifferman]

so you guys that use your bike everyday, does it take the enjoyment out of biking?

To some extent, yes.
I very rarely if ever ride in the weekends as a result. I'd like to buy a scooter or commuter bike because I know that would fix the mundanity, but I'm not allowed.
Plus ALL the crashes I've ever had have been while commuting around the city.

[SPman]

i ride to work every day, i dont get bored, but I do get sick of my boss going "did you see there were some bikies killed on the road at the weekend"

To which you reply - "yep - but not as many as the car drivers!"

[vifferman]

I have to agree - riding the bike to work is my favourite part of the day...

Yeah, same here.
Wehn I first started riding in D'Auckland (over 7 years ago), I liked the fact that the morning ride made me wide awake, alert, ready to go, etc etc. whereas commuting by car or bus was a snoozefest. However, eventually commuting became too routine.
In my new job, I was breaking the monotony by commuting sometimes with my son, but his driving does my head in, as does sitting in traffic.

[The Pastor]

Is this a troll, asking if biking gets boring on a bikers website?

[Kflasher]

Dude great way to start the day, I once lived in Rotorua and worked in Tauranga, nice 45min ride via the Tauranga Direct Road. Winter can be a bitch but you'll get over it... my 2 cents.

[lb99]

To which you reply - "yep - but not as many as the car drivers!"

usual reply is, "musta been hit by cars, ehh"

nah- my boss is ok, he just thinks I am nuts for some reason

does anyone know the stats on golf course deaths?

[yod]

i used to ride to work in chch and aucks

now i WISH i could ride to work but i have a company car dagnabbit!! (although the car is handy if i need to cart any crap around or when it's REALLY hosing down)

[gijoe1313]

The only time things get boring is when I'm not riding the bike! I ride whenever, whereever I can and if I have to use the car, I swap back to my bike ASAP!

[wil]

To some extent, yes.
I very rarely if ever ride in the weekends as a result. I'd like to buy a scooter or commuter bike because I know that would fix the mundanity, but I'm not allowed.
Plus ALL the crashes I've ever had have been while commuting around the city.

i have got a feeling that is how i would feel, if i ride the same bike over and over all week, few years back i had my cb250 for work and cbr 600 for the weekends, i didnt really think about what i was riding in the week just looked forward to the weekend.

[aderino4]

i used to only have a bike back in the university days.
Had to use it for everything: class, shopping, doing laundry at laundromat, travelling back and forth Hamilton-Auckland every weekend etc.

It was good and certainly fun except on rainy days, when you have to carry a big ass desktop on your back or meeting up with a bunch of friends and you're the only one carrying a backpack full of riding gear and helmet on your hand (e.g. going to movies)....

Then I learnt how to drive a car and ended up selling the bike.

A couple of years later (present time); I'm back on 95% bike time again. The reason being I'm older and I have a shiny bike.

Nowadays the only time I used the car is for picking up a bunch of friends, buying pizza, or grocery shopping.

[SPman]

I ride in occasionally, when I havent got a book to read on the train. 220k round trip - train - 4 hrs a day, bike - 3hrs a day, or less in school hols.
The missus let me take the FZ1 in today (coz its got heated grips and fingers get more than cold, when the temp drops below 4 degrees)