Commuting to work, with which bike?

I ride my road bike to work (about 12-miles).  The building has indoor bike storage so I feel it's safe...but I still lock the bike to a pole in the locked storage room.  Sometimes I bring my bike to my office...but I've been talked to about this.  Bldg Mgt doesn't like when I do that!

I do have an old mtn bike that I have riden in before. But like you said, it's a lot of work it adds some time to the commute.

I cycle commute year-round (there were two weeks out of the last year that I wasn't outside at least once on the bike) and use my MTB the majority of the time.  It is a 1992 Nishiki that has probably seen its last winter (I hate salt!).  Next winter I'll probably be using the old (1974) single speed road bike I just built up and moving the rack and panniers over.

Once the roads are clear, I'll switch to my road bike on occasion but still prefer the MTB (with panniers) for the bulk of my commuting miles.  I would never ride my tribike to work, I can't even imagine what trying to ride comfortably with a backpack would be like on that.

Shane

I ride a couple of bikes for commuting.

I ride my old (and yes I mean old -1937) cruiser to commute usually. I ride about 4km to the seabus (water taxi) and then about 500m from there to work. I have no problem locking this bike anywhere and lock it in the bike cage in our parking garage at work. I also ride it to the store or elsewhere and lock it up wherever, bike racks, telephone poles etc.

When I ride one of my road bikes to work (about 12km) it is usually because I am going to do a workout before or after work. When I bring a road bike it, I put in an empty office cubicle.

Jen