View Poll Results: How's your route constructed?
Strictly vehicular roads
47
55.29%
I use a MUP/Bike Path type route
55
64.71%
I use an offroad trail
6
7.06%
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Do you use MUPs/off road trails to commute? Or strictly road?
01-16-15, 11:31 AM
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Do you use MUPs/off road trails to commute? Or strictly road?
I too have a good proportion of my 14 mile commute in neighborhoods.
I have perviously posted this “Hierarchy of Paved Roads” to the Living Car Free Forum thread, ”What streets do you like to ride on?” from my own experiences.
I have perviously posted this “Hierarchy of Paved Roads” to the Living Car Free Forum thread, ”What streets do you like to ride on?” from my own experiences.
All my cycling as a decades-long, year-round commuter and occasional centurian in Metro Boston ranges from dense urban, to suburban, to exurban… Over the years, I have described roads, so for this post I compiled my descriptions in order of cycling pleasure (paved roads only):
- Enchanted
- Exurban (no residences, no commercial buildings)
- Residential: Urban (dense, multi-unit dwellings), Suburban (single unattached homes)
- Light commercial (storefronts close to the sidewalk, street parking)
- Heavy commercial (shopping malls, driveway accesses, parking lots)
- Industrial: (dreary vistas, rough roads, debris-strewn)
PS: It just occured to me, though I don't ride in the downtown proper, I should probably add a category of "Downtown," as typified by the urban canyons and narrow, often-crowded streets of Manhattan, or the Financial District of Boston. Downtown riding would, IMO rank just ahead of "heavy commercial.
...I ride my commute early in the AM, and my long rides early on Saturdays, and IMO, almost any road is a good ride at that time of day, better than a MUP or MUT.
For me though, early morning ends at about 6AM on weekdays, 8AM on Saturdays, and 9AM on Sundays. Later in the day is a different matter.
For me though, early morning ends at about 6AM on weekdays, 8AM on Saturdays, and 9AM on Sundays. Later in the day is a different matter.
Last edited by Jim from Boston; 01-16-15 at 11:57 AM.
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