My commute to work and back home in 2:20

[Becinhu]

ARound where Nef and I live there are lots of stop signs and lights.  Nef probably has 10 stop signs just to get out of his neighborhood.  With very narrow streets at that.  I get to work in 10 minutes but i drive 15 miles.  I only deal with one stop sign and 4 lights and 10 of my miles are interstate.

[B3YT]

it would be ig i were capable. but my skinny arse is so outta shape...........and i ain't riding in the rain, or winter....so a car's my best bet.

chicken j/k

you would be surprised how quick you will get in a short time on a road bike. I love riding in winter and rain . In winter my MTB comes out with studded tyres in the snow.

[VonMessa]

chicken j/k

you would be surprised how quick you will get in a short time on a road bike. I love riding in winter and rain . In winter my MTB comes out with studded tyres in the snow.

You would get killed around here.  Hell, it's hard enough to keep from getting hit in an automobile, let alone a bicycle. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

You would get killed around here.  Hell, it's hard enough to keep from getting hit in an automobile, let alone a bicycle. 

I heard bicycle/pedestrian lanes/roads are very rare down there

[Stoney]

I heard bicycle/pedestrian lanes/roads are very rare down there

They are, unless you're in an urban area, and then maybe.  Some of the bigger cities are moving that way now, but the smaller towns aren't.  Heck, in my town, its against a city ordnance to ride your bike on the sidewalk, but there's no place designated for biking, except the road.  I challenged a local municipal official about that and his response was that bikes are afforded the same right-of-way as cars on the road.  I laughed...

[Babalonian]

negatory on that sir. farthest west i've been was to the indy 500. what an agonizingly boring drive to get there too. 

4-6 paved lanes of pure insanity and darwinism in each direction.  Most people simpley don't know how to merge or pay attention (this includes many drivers in the slow lane cluelessly putting along and either incapable or unaware of the 4-5 open lanes to their left that they could occupy to allow an oncomming truck the opportunity to merge in).  Each onramp is metered or elongated (to allow enough time to accelerate up to highway speed) in the state, and people still get into accidents because at the end of a 500-foot ramp they were only doing 35mph when they blindly careened into the side of a semi.  Then there's the rare times when theres no traffic but people are cruising at 60 in the fast lanes.  This drives the lead foots crazy, and then you end up having to dodge them doing 90 as you try to merge onto the freeway.

[Babalonian]

hang on it took you 20mins to drive 7 miles? 

Lets see here, 7 / 20 = 2.86-minutes per mile.

~45 miles a day for me here in LA, at about 70 minutes each way for me, that's 22.5 per 70 minutes, so 22.5 / 70 = 3.11-minutes per mile, yup sounds right, it's better than Los Angeles. 

I should do one of these, and maybe actually a few.  I can do two for my typical morning commute, take the freeway route one day and the canyon+PCH route another (the canyon route kinda sucks atm bacause of construction along PCH, but we could take a detour through Pacific Palisades).  Then there's teh homeward bound routes - again freeway or canyon or even backstreet.

Nef, did you take the time-delayed video with your camera or edit it from a full-length on your computer?

[Nefarious]

Each way was a full length video sped up %1600 in Adobe Premiere, Each Video was about 18:00 minutes long and condensed down to 1:10 to fit inside of the 2:20 Boss Hoss Song.

[Penguin]

I go to school in the snow, uphill both ways and in the middle of the night.

-Penguin

[druski85]

You would get killed around here.  Hell, it's hard enough to keep from getting hit in an automobile, let alone a bicycle. 

When the weather is nice (between 45-85 F, heat index) I bike to work through downtown DC.  The bike lanes being installed are helpful, but it will take more time for drivers to get used to being in the same relative space as cyclists.  For now, it remains somewhat treacherous.  A video of my 15 minute ride would probably be more entertaining than my other means of transit, which is taking the metro. (subway)  Walk to station, ride train underground for a bit, walk to work.   

[Ripsnort]

Nef, I did this same thing on one of our offroad 4x4 sessions a couple years back. I'll see about re-uploading it and posting it.

And Nef....GO PACK!

[B3YT]

I have no bike lanes where I live . It gives me a chuckle to see some git in a car TRYing to over take me as I'm hitting 30- 35 mph on the flat on my road bike while in 30mph zones.  top speed I've hit on my bike is 65 mph coming down a mountain road near to where I used to live. I get a few near misses but a kick to the door panel makes drivers wake up 

[Nefarious]

Nef, I did this same thing on one of our offroad 4x4 sessions a couple years back. I'll see about re-uploading it and posting it.

And Nef....GO PACK!

Cool, Would love to see it... You still driving that Steeler colored FJ Cruiser? 

[Mustaine]

Yep, that isn't my address. But your arrow is resting in my alley and is just a few houses from my location. Good sleuthing. Now any mysterious cars parked outside will be fired upon.  

hehe, I though of doing it once I watched... BTW great choice in music, what song was that?

If there was street view it would have been a lot quicker... I did it by drawing a quick "map" of the first 4 streets you were on. and the unusual on-ramp. once I found the on ramp I looked for an avenue with a divider. Once I saw Goff it was easy to place the distance the start was from the avenue. I guessed on the alley, it looked like one, but no street view, and no alley shown on the map.

<EDIT> I have to ask, why take 19th when it looks like 21st would get you to West Virginia Ave quicker? better yet, right on pride, left on 24th to WV? I'm a dork and like studying maps looking for easiest / quickest routes.

[B3YT]

CAP did you see the film made  called race across america ? this british guy was trying to ride and run across america . on day 5 he got hit by a truck in daylight on a nice flat wide high way. I think any one cycling or motor cycling in the US are quite brave in the land where the car is king .  But some of the roads look awesome to ride on.