I have been a year-'round daily bike commuter for about 35 years. My daily commute from Brooklyn to the middle of Manhattan is about a 9-mile ride, each way. I am riding a 58cm mid-aughts Ramboulliet, my setup informed by the aesthetic influence of the 1970's Gitanes, Motobecanes, Peugeots of my misspent youth; fairly narrow, slopy drop bars, 23mm slicks. Until a recent accident, I was running a 3x9. When my bike gets out of sick bay, it'll be a 2x11. The temperature range I'll commute through is, roughly, 10° F to 100°+ F. In my backpack will be my work wear, a spare tube, a small pump and a small assortment of tools. Bike commuting, for me, has always been a fairly solitary pursuit... Because I'm usually running behind, I tend to ride flat out. As flat out as this schlubby sixty-sonething can manage... Sometimes I'll pick up someone who's interested in pacelining off/with me but even that is fairly solitary, as well. With my roadie laid up, my fallback has been my early eighties, aluminum frame Cannondale M800 MTB which I run set up for simple single track. During the this quarantine, while riding solo, I have been taking advantage of the relative paucity of automotive traffic to explore NYC's fairly extensive network of set-asides for bikes. Tip of the hat to the administrations of Bloomberg and deBlasio for that! If I'm out riding with my wife, we'll tend to do circuits of Prospect Park, in Brooklyn. It's certainly a terrible time for NYC but, perversely, there's probably never been a better time to bike here. The streets are quite empty. It's very strange.
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