Who has the most attractive cycle commute?

Thanks very much @tthew ! I work in Belfast and live in Bangor, there's a coastal route along Belfast Lough, which is where the picture is of, my cycle commute is typically train/bike combo on the way out, and bike home, if the weather is reasonable, it's not quite all as scenic as the pic suggests, here it is for those who missed it 🙂

I can give you the answer to this actually. It's Alex Parmenter in Nethy Bridge. Every few weeks his commute to work through Rothiemurcus Forest to Glenmore Lodge pops up on my Strava feed.... and just makes me realise that a ****ing car crash my life is.

Sometimes in winter he makes it worse by not commuting by bike, but by cross country ski.

'STURD!!!!!

^ agree that Alex wins. He has also paraglided the commute....

I can see over Portsmouth and Southampton on parts of my commute (which is certainly better than being IN Portsmouth and Southampton!) I'm usually distracted by closer, uglier things though 😵

1. tthew that's my coffee run ride at the weekend if I don't go further afield.

Mine's OK, not mountainous and lovely, but chilled and flat and surrounded by woodland and flower fields.

Youtoob

Hmm not as scenic, but fair few parts quite decent and away from traffic !

Since WFH I really miss my commute. I think this was one of my favourite commutes. Down via Chatsworth, along the Monsal trail, down Winnats into Castelton and along the Hope Valley into Sheff.

Certainly better than dicing with traffic on the usual route.

Early start at 4am to capture the sunrise

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Jebus, that's a bloody good bike ride, not a commute Jeff! Disqualified. 😁

Mine isn’t going to win the most attractive, but I do count myself lucky that 9 of the 12.5 miles are along the Leeds Liverpool canal, which can be stunning.

Won't be my commute in Thanet. But I think this looks nice and appreciate what we've got, even the smallest pockets of nature are better than staying indoors. This is my commute home, don't often do it on the way in. Once it gets muddy I'll take the roads again.

I do really enjoy travelling along these tracks and watching them change over the seasons and years, getting to know them, memorizing where everything is. I've been riding that up and down that farm track for over a decade. Used to have the KOM going down it, hit 31mph assisted by a strong tailwind. Think it's too churned up now, farm vehicles seem to have got bigger I think. The weather seems to be eroding lots of tracks around here and exposing loads of stones.

Mine starts on the Lake District

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......and ends in Barrow :/

I used to go through the Purbecks and now go through the New Forest. Both are quite nice if not the most picturesque commute.

Not the most exciting, but not a bad commute. Another canal into Leeds, but from the other side.

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You lucky,lucky people.. 😃 👍
A good,safe commute, where you can get those 'at one' with the world moments,is a beautiful and wonderful thing.
Happy Friday

I would post a couple of pictures of Milton Keynes but I couldn't be responsible for the levels of envy they would envoke.

When I used to work in Dalgety Bay the regular cycle commute back to Edinburgh was across the bridge, but the alternative on a nice summer day was to ride up to Burntiland and take the ferry across to Granton/Edinburgh instead.  It felt like you were on holiday every time.

I'm guessing that ferry has long stopped though as I can't find any reference to it any more 🙁

Mine was pretty nice along the Leeds Liverpool canal. Only 1 mile of quiet roads the go on.

I used to drop down to the main road and it was fine. I now climb up the hill and see sheep, views over Wharfedale, Ilkley Moor and very little traffic. A bit longer and a lot more climbing but so much nicer. Pretty good for less than 2 miles! Back along the main road though, it’s too steep to be arsed to climb back up

I get some nice commute views. Lots of options depending on the hospital I’m working at, views of lakes, Glasshouse Mountains and forestry.

@desperatebicycle that looks like the road past Micks Monster Burgers 

Not currently, but for most of a summer I was working in Farnborough, so I stayed in Bracknell so that my commute was the red trail.

@desperatebicycle that looks like the road past Micks Monster Burgers

Ah yes, often stop in there for a spot of dogging of an evening 😀

I cannot compete with the glory of some of these commutes, they’re wonderful.

However, I do love my ride to work - I have about 100m of road at either end, the rest (depending on which route I take) is canal path, woods, a field which has the remains of a 12th century church, riverside and muddy trails.

When the weather is a bit iffy some of my kind workmates offer me a lift home. I thank them but ride - the fools don’t know it’s the best part of the day. I have tried to tell them.

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Redcar seafront is about half my commute and fairly pleasant. The sea fret like today gives a surreal air but removes the sea views. The other half between the chemical works and the half closed steel works is less attractive but does at least have a decent cycle path next to the dual carriageway.

Redcar seafront is about half my commute and fairly pleasant

I'd love to hear you wax lyrical about your surroundings if you lived somewhere nice. Redcar is one of the biggest dumps I've ever stayed in - worked there for a year 2010-2011

Made some good mates in the Cleveland (Clevo) though

4 miles across Bristol. Half of it is suburbs. The other half goes through the park ...

Round the lake, look out for the heron and maybe even the kingfisher...

Up through another park. Grinding up the col on my 1x commuter, zooom

I’d love to hear you wax lyrical about your surroundings if you lived somewhere nice. Redcar is one of the biggest dumps I’ve ever stayed in – worked there for a year 2010-2011

Yep most of Redcar is very rundown (the polite version) but since it was redeveloped about 10 years ago the sea front is OK. Just have to concentrate on the seaward views and not the town centre side with it's empty shops.
The rebuilt cinema actually looks quite nice and once you get into the dunes you can't see the town only beach, sea and the cliffs above Saltburn.
Also the sea front shared use cycle path is so much more pleasant than roads at commuting times.
PS if working away in Redcar would recommend staying elsewhere (sadly).

Further up the track I previously posted. Just the other side of the tower block in the distance is where work is.

@desperatebicycle

I can see over Portsmouth and Southampton on parts of my commute (which is certainly better than being IN Portsmouth and Southampton!) I’m usually distracted by closer, uglier things though

The joys of Portsdown hill! motorbikes screaming past at 70+mph, the waft of fried food coming from Micks burger van and the endlessly stream of impatient drivers trying to squeeze past when there is oncoming traffic

I commute via Farlignton marshes, the cycle path has a marsh land nature reserve on one side with sea views and on the other side the A27!

A work mate has had two cars (both different incidents) crash on the A27 then manage to find the only section with no crash barrier and fly through said section, through the bushes and dropped down on to the cyclepath just before and just after where he was riding!

My road turns off onto a disused railway track, and then I have a couple of cross country options (at this time of year based on the quantity of nettles and overgrown stiles through hedges) There is a tiny bit of road connecting the nice stuff, but it's generally lovely.

Oh, go on then.

I ride past a few reflective windows on my way to work.

Not sure about attractive, but a pretty damned handsome view if you ask me.