Bike to Work?

My wife has done it.  What part of town and which Hwy?

I ride down Peachtree from Buckhead to Midtown 3x a week. Guess you could say it's sorta busy :D

I live in Woodstock and the highway of choice is Highway 92 for 7 miles with 6 lights. But I do have 2 options of back roads which are also busy and hilly but I feel a better bet.

I've seen guys do it. Between Trickum and Sandy Plains you're probably okay on the road, there's a fair amount of shoulder, but after Sandy Plains towards 400, you probably want to be stick to the sidewalk, it gets pretty tight and crowded.

There are a couple of guys who bike commute on Hwy 92, with a LOT of flashing lights. There are three lanes each way on 92, so there are other lanes for cars to pass. However, traffic on 92 averages 50 mph and I have seen a lot of texting/makeup application/eating while driving on this road, so I chose not to ride that way. I took King Road to Woodstock Road to Norcross Street/Warsaw Road instead - hillier, but quieter.

I have only commuted during the summer months and when school was out (spring break) because I do not ride to the front of the line at lights (I just wait in line) and traffic during school months was too heavy and took too long to make the commute worthwhile. It was more time-effective to ride the trainer at home.

I stopped bike commuting because although it was delightful in the morning (people waved, no one buzzed me), drivers in the evenings were rude and sometimes hostile. I was buzzed, honked-at, and yelled-at so regularly that I grew to dread the ride home and simply stopped doing it.

If you have easy shower access and bike storage at work, I encourage you to give it a try to see if you can make it work. Ping me if you need route ideas. Coming from Woodstock, if you can dip through some of the backroads, you may be able to make a fairly bike-friendly route that does not include 92.

The times I've bike commuted, I had the same experience morning vs. afternoons: perfectly delightful riding around the cars in the a.m., nearly hysterical drivers in the p.m. I really don't remember ever being on anything but my best behavior in those commutes - just something about bikes on the road ticked off drivers to the point they seemed to forget their manners and definitely forgot the law. Still and all, I really plan to find a way to make it work at least a couple of times a year. To the OP, I hope you can make it happen...