Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
by KptMarchewa on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:25AM
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1:10h on bike in Warsaw is like 20km, it's pretty much whole city in straight line length: https://i.imgur.com/21GFPI1.png
You just live very far from your job.
Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
by ovi256 on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:34AM
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It takes longer than continuous biking in a city would make one think, for the same reason driving does: you have to stop at red lights, yield, wait in traffic.
Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
by KptMarchewa on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:38AM
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My average was 18-20km/h, but half the journey was on the Vistula river bank which makes lights irrelevant. https://um.warszawa.pl/documents/61166/6599671/08102017_Bulw...
Still, would assume 16-18km/h is minimum reasonable speed unless you ride like a pensioner.
Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
by shagmin on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:45PM
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Living in a small city (or large town may be a more accurate way to put it) with lots of greenways, I feel like I get the best of both worlds. Before my office re-located I could go 6 miles (~9.5 km) to/from work on a bike in between or around corporate campuses and subdivisions and only deal with a few intersections, while in a car I'd have to deal with traffic and traffic lights regularly most of the way.
But car commute is still faster. I can get from home to work in ~35 minutes at lower traffic (say 10AM, blessed be flexible work hours) and in MAX hour in more of a rush traffic. Best time by bicycle is around 1h10m. I do park at work building so that's 5-10 minutes of looking for parking saved there. Technically I can get there by 50 min if I get with bike to metro but that's pretty much possible only on off hours.
It's definitely pretty nice way to keep in shape, now with more remote work I just use the time saved to do some cycling. Did it pretty much "from when it stopped snowing to when it started", 20km a day (I went via metro in the morning, came back cycling, just didn't wanted to do all the mess with arriving sweaty and having shower at work every day), including few in pouring rain at near-zero 0C which was.. experience and I have now learned to stop shivering by force of will alone.
Thought I'd get less fat but it didn't work, tho I did get more healthy overall. Diet is the key in the end.
> - somewhat dangerous when the infrastructure is lacking.
Yeah I try to not share any road with cars as much as I could. For 10 years I don't think I had a day where I didn't saw some car doing something sketchy or just driver not paying attention. Not that cyclists were holy here just... much less potential for damage.
> - you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking;
please just don't