the longest commute

[gettin2dizzy]

i'm sure i've got this one covered. Awake at 1, leave at 2, drive 340 miles to work arriving at half 7 :-) i'm knackered!

[sarah]

i'm sure i've got this one covered. Awake at 1, leave at 2, drive 340 miles to work arriving at half 7 :-) i'm knackered!

Ouch. And I thought my 3hr/150mile commute was bad.

[hovis]

3 miles:smt039

[MR UKI (1)]

Less than half a mile, i can see the top of my office from my living room window and i'm still always late :)

[TEC]

....Awake at 1, leave at 2, drive 340 miles to work arriving at half 7....
Why :confused: would probably be cheaper to move or is this just a temporary thing

[Pedro68]

i'm sure i've got this one covered. Awake at 1, leave at 2, drive 340 miles to work arriving at half 7 :-) i'm knackered!
Did you just say "drive"? You did didn't you?? You DRIVE 340 miles to work??
Do you stay overnight during the week? Or do you actually do a DAILY COMMUTE of 680 miles?? If it's the latter, are you TOTALLY INSANE??? :p

Jeez, I thought my 100 mile per day commute was bad enough ;) But it's a walk in the park compared to that! LMAO

Pete

p.s. I could "perhaps" understand it if you RODE 340 miles (ya know ... for the love of the ride n all that ;-) Hahaha)

[jumjum_0214]

45 for me and thats bad enough:why:

[Wideboy]

7 miles for me, some times on a push bike but rarely (lazy)

[DarrenSV650S]

i'm sure i've got this one covered. Awake at 1, leave at 2, drive 340 miles to work arriving at half 7 :-) i'm knackered!
Got to agree with Pedro68, that is nuts. I'd definitely be staying the night nearer work during the week if it was me

[timwilky]

I spent 9 months commuting from Preston to Rugby, doing 10 hour days in Rugby. I used to leave home about 5am, get down there in time for breaky in Tesco at 7:30, leave the office about 6pm, get home 8:30 ish, take away, telly, shower bed and up again at 4:30.

Why did I get back on two wheels, I ended up in hospital, I was vomiting blood, they took my blood pressure and was admitted. Work was killing me.

So I went back to work 9 months after that. It was still there, I was not as indispensable as I thought. Now I do the commute perhaps 1 or 2 days a week.

There is nothing clever about a long commute. It is extra hours and stress that you don't need. Sorry been there, done, that, bought the t shirt and I don't want another

[chunkytfg]

104 miles each way atm but only done at the ebginnig and end of a session of shifts. I still do 44 miles each way while i'm down here though.

Or in other words my car is ONLY used to cuommute and i do 2500-3000 miles a month in it

[metalmonkey]

A few years back I couldn't afford to move into London I was on crap pay 11k/year just got my degree and this was before I got the bike. I used drive over 400 miles/week spend 1 1/2-2 hours travelling each way to and from work. I couldn't afford do that kind of job anymore, I was broke when I got paid and worn out from work, wouldn't do it again.

I can now get to work in 20 mins on the bike now rush hour, or same ish amount time by car when the roads are clear it does happen! Its not worth it, wouldn't go back to the stress of it......

[mister c]

I only do about 40 miles a day, but my son does 135 miles a day on his CBF600

[Defender]

I go to work in my car each week day - 11 miles - and as it gets colder and darker I am amazed how many bikes I see.

It must be hard work in the ice and snow on a bike when you have no real alternative.

[Mike2165]

The contract I'm on at the moment finishes in March, I do 100 miles each way, takes about hour and half to two hours depending on if I'm on the bike or in the car and the traffic ( I have to travel on the glorious A14!) Don't mind the journey, always travelled for my job. Would be nice if the next contract is nearer home though, would probably get to take the bike more often then.

[Smudge]

they have to pay me over £40K to get me to do that many miles id find another job if i was you

[G]

I commute 50 miles a day if I'm in the office......which to be honest is rare.

The 25 miles each way can sometimes take upto 1.5hrs though

My missus does 100 miles a day commuting and sometimes that takes her 2hrs+

I average 3000 business mile a month

My company car is 5 months old and has 15000 miles on the clock......and 1 month of those 5 it was in the bodyshop after I hit a dear in deepest darkest scotland.

[Bluewolf]

Bugger that! 340 miles one way?! :shock: I do between 8 and 20 miles per day depending on where I'm working. I can't even begin to imagine getting up at 1am for a DAYSHIFT! :eek:

after I hit a dear in deepest darkest scotland.

An old dear? Was she okay..? ;) :lol:

[Alpinestarhero]

Mines about 50 mile round trip to kingston (and back). Takes about an hour to get there, an hour to get back. Which is depressing, since its a 25 mph average speed - but at some points I'm doing 60 / 70 mph

Goes to show how long those traffic lights hold you up for!

Matt

[diamond]

I do 120 miles a day along the A303, 60 each way, the quickest i've done it is 35 mins the longest was 4 and half hours in the car one christmas eve.

[andyb]

I do 120 miles a day along the A303, 60 each way, the quickest i've done it is 35 mins the longest was 4 and half hours in the car one christmas eve.

35 minutes to do 60 miles!:cool:Mines only 10 miles each way. 20 minutes and I'm at work :D

[Daimo]

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[Daimo]

27 miles each way. Kent to Central London.

Anyone who does this trip im sure will agree on that its a horrible trip. Whether you go via shooters hill, or via Blackwall Tunnel....

I hate it, my life would be so much happier/calmer/less likley to crash if i worked out in Kent.

Anyone got any good jobs in IT in NW Kent (or surrounding areas :( )

[the_runt69]

Do 7 miles each way up the Old Kent Rd till the end of the week, could take the train as I dont have to pay but prefer to take the bike. Moving to a job further away, its 7 and a half miles each way. But at least its not going into London.

[Daimo]

Thats a nasty route in as well. I avoid old Kent road like the plague.

[the_runt69]

as I work Shifts not usually a problem, but hate when i finish at 7 in the evening,

[GeeMac]

8 miles or so to work along the Old Kent.

I'd rather do 50 on the M1 than this :(

[gettin2dizzy]

i've been staying in a pub during the week :) back on thursday evening though after a 10 hour shift ;)

[Frank]

being self employed,I dont have a set place of work.One day it could be a 120 mile round trip,next it could b half a mile.Still get up at the same stupid time though.
I worked in cheshire and lived in Somerset once.and did that for a year.I think it was the waking up as my van went through the hedge that made me stop.

[stevehaskew]

I do 37 miles each way every day. Reading to Hammersmith on the M4. Takes me about an hour each way. It's so much quicker than the car, so I'm still not finding it a grind yet..

[tigersaw]

Back in the 80's we had a controller in our company who lived in the states, 'commuted' for his shift cycle.

[phil24_7]

can manage my commute in about 2 minutes at 7 in the morning, only got a couple of miles to go!

[Sideshow#36]

I do 36 miles each day. 18 e/w And on the bike they are an absoulte pleasure.

[mary]

Last term I was commuting 14 miles to work - no distance but it was from hammersmith to hackney down the Euston road and it was a nightmare! I used to spend a lot of time looking wistfully at the bus lane (when i wasn't trying not to get taken out by the general traffic)... Having said that it was a darn site quicker than public transport.
mary

[Red ones]

29.8 miles each way mainly on the A1(M). Just about the limit of what I would accept - I could only do the additional 6 miles in to the City if I had a guaranteed safe and free bike park.

I did some work with a guy whose home was in the UK, the office was in California (and yes - he was office based). I bumped in to him one day soon after i thought I needed to call him. I asked what he was doing so near home - he was on his way to the office from a meeting in Tokyo! (Great guy and really does fly teh zillion miles for a coffee and chat if it means his work is easier!!)

[Grinch]

Let me do the math... right 1 year and six months at a 130 miles a day. Less weekends, and lets say 7 weeks holiday, plus 2 weeks sick. So...

(52 + 26 -9) * 5 = 345 Days

So times that by the distance. 345 * 130 = 44850 miles

Oh thats alot... Plus ontop of that I was traveling for 3 hours a day, So I lost 1035 hours of my life just getting to and from work. Meaning I lost 43 and bit days of my life....

How depressing.

[Ceri JC]

On the subject of commuting, I saw an interesting philosophy program where Alain De Bottan looked at what makes people happy. He reckoned the unhappiness brought by a long commute never offset the increase in happiness due to increased wages/a better job further afield. Mind you, he seemed to be basing this on cagers and poor sods waiting for trains. I wonder how different it'd be if he was looking at bikers? I don't mind my longish commute (170 round trip), but I rarely have to do it more than once a week and it's often split over two days. I have done it on consecutive days, but it's a killer and I could never do it full time. I'm actually looking at new jobs at the moment and am wondering about where I should draw the line distance-wise. I'm not prepared to move, but I am prepared to commute a bit further to offset this, but I don't think I could face much more than 100 miles per day (never mind afford it). Ideally, I'd like something I could do on 40mph roads all the way (10-12 miles away) so I could get a cheap 250cc winter hack for and keep running costs down.

[Pedro68]

Ok worst commute I have ever had to do ...

Bristol -> Sheffield (181 miles and bo||ocks to what Google maps thinks about journey time - they've never had to do this at 2pm on a Friday afternoon! 3 hrs 10 mins MY AR$E ... it would regularly take me 5 HOURS).

The above is the first leg of the journey (where I would go to collect my kids) followed by:

Sheffield -> Wallasey (87 miles and Google seems to have got it right this time, or at least my journey was made outside of rush hour by this time, and so 1 hr 45 mins was about right)

This was my Friday night commute (every 2nd Friday actually) for about 6 months.

Then on Sunday night the route was ALMOST reversed, but with an extra stop at the gf's ...

Wallasey -> Sheffield (87 miles) - drop kids off and then onto gf's
Sheffield -> Heathrow (171 miles) - see the gf and then Monday morning ...
Heathrow -> Bristol (104 miles) and back to work :-s

Worst part was the 5 hour or so journey on a Friday afternoon to go pick the kids up ... M5/M42 was just grid-locked most of the time.

So my commute's these days ain't so bad :)

[TEC]

i'm sure i've got this one covered. Awake at 1, leave at 2, drive 340 miles to work arriving at half 7 :-) i'm knackered!

So its not really a commute then
i've been staying in a pub during the week :) back on thursday evening though after a 10 hour shift ;)
:rolleyes: