So I plan few trips for next season. First one in last week of July - get to
Vienna, around Danube to Linz and then back to CZ to small town Slavonice.
(About 600km I plan it for 7-9 days) Second to Hamburg - the farthest city with
direct train back home. (About 900 km I think it will take me about 14 days) Few
shorter trips and 10km every day to work… My brother said now something like
“C’mon next year you will have 5000 km on bike”
Oh wow. That is quite the tall order. Is it one way? I have 30km to work and it’s too long for me, other than do it occasionally. With the train i do like 8km one way.
A client of ours goes i think 35km, but he is riding 30+ km/h average on his 10000€* road bike, i don’t see me ever doing that on any of the bikes i have.
Yup, each way, so 50mi/80km total per day perhaps a little more since I’d be going on side paths instead of on the highway.
I used to go about that fast on my old 11mi/17km commute and finish in 30-45 min, depending on wind direction. So with some training, I could probably do my new commute in ~1.5hr each way. It’s not going to be a regular thing, just a goal I have. Maybe I’ll do it more regularly if I get an ebike, and I probably will if I like the route.
For the train route, it’s 3mi/5km to the stop, then 7mi/11km to my office. That’s pretty reasonable, and I’ll use that to train myself up to the full distance (e.g. skip a stop, then skip the train entirely). My office only has one bus that goes to it, and it’s awkward to get to. If I did transit only, it would take >2 hours (car is 30-40 min), so the bike is a time savings.
I typed that out thinking that was what it had cost, but then i thought about it some more and it may have only have been like 6000€ or something, definitely a high end roadbike.
edit: i also was kinda skeptical what he claimed for his average speed, but turns out he was not exagerating, he ‘proved’ it by having a meeting with a co worker of mine somewhere further away and then rode to our office with his bike while my co worker drove his car back, i calculated his route and it must have been something like 33 km/h.
I served with a guy who did road biking, and 33km/h seems reasonable for a commute. Kinda not surprised at the 6000 euro price tag. Road bike tend to be expensive.
Bike to work (25mi/40km). I’ll start small by taking the train halfway (10mi/16km).
Oh wow. That is quite the tall order. Is it one way? I have 30km to work and it’s too long for me, other than do it occasionally. With the train i do like 8km one way.
A client of ours goes i think 35km, but he is riding 30+ km/h average on his 10000€* road bike, i don’t see me ever doing that on any of the bikes i have.
*edit: that may have been an exxageration.
Yup, each way, so 50mi/80km total per day perhaps a little more since I’d be going on side paths instead of on the highway.
I used to go about that fast on my old 11mi/17km commute and finish in 30-45 min, depending on wind direction. So with some training, I could probably do my new commute in ~1.5hr each way. It’s not going to be a regular thing, just a goal I have. Maybe I’ll do it more regularly if I get an ebike, and I probably will if I like the route.
For the train route, it’s 3mi/5km to the stop, then 7mi/11km to my office. That’s pretty reasonable, and I’ll use that to train myself up to the full distance (e.g. skip a stop, then skip the train entirely). My office only has one bus that goes to it, and it’s awkward to get to. If I did transit only, it would take >2 hours (car is 30-40 min), so the bike is a time savings.
While I don’t think someone would commute on a bike that expensive, I wouldn’t say it’s out of the question.
I typed that out thinking that was what it had cost, but then i thought about it some more and it may have only have been like 6000€ or something, definitely a high end roadbike.
edit: i also was kinda skeptical what he claimed for his average speed, but turns out he was not exagerating, he ‘proved’ it by having a meeting with a co worker of mine somewhere further away and then rode to our office with his bike while my co worker drove his car back, i calculated his route and it must have been something like 33 km/h.
I served with a guy who did road biking, and 33km/h seems reasonable for a commute. Kinda not surprised at the 6000 euro price tag. Road bike tend to be expensive.