type of work place that you commute to?
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type of work place that you commute to?
Postby giantguy » Thu May 10, 2012 10:28 pm
I usually see a couple of cyclists in the morning, but most are travelling the opposite way I am travelling, with either a direct route to the Perth CBD or to one of the train stations, where I assume that they catch a train to the CBD. I carry on to my work place which is a workshop in a commercial / industrial area and only see the occasional cyclist once in this area.
So my assumption is that most commuting cyclists work in a city CBD and most probably in an office type of workplace. Am I correct in assuming this ?
I would like to hear from others what sort of place they are travelling to or am I the only tradie on a bike ?
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Postby ColinOldnCranky » Thu May 10, 2012 11:48 pm
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Postby Ozkaban » Fri May 11, 2012 9:11 am
Being a tradie on a bike would be interesting. Do you have to cart many tools around?
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Postby A_P » Sat May 12, 2012 1:00 pm
Considering that one of them has just undergone a major expansion its a pretty poor effort in my view.
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Postby PB12IN » Sun May 13, 2012 6:28 pm
From what my wife has told me from an internal email, the uni hospital is supposed to have good facitities, and Robina (where she is) should be getting them built afterwards, then she will have no excuse not to ride as we only live 5km from the hospital.A_P wrote:I commute to two different hospitals on the gold coast. Neither of them caters particularly well for any one who doesn't drive to work.
Considering that one of them has just undergone a major expansion its a pretty poor effort in my view.
As far as the hospital in southport, No facilities as such but I'm the only one that uses the bike racks at the Aussie fair staff car park, so there is some security to chain it up (but being southport I'm not sure security is much help)
So I ride to retail hell (but I only work 2 days a week)
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Postby rdp_au » Tue May 15, 2012 9:31 am
I like that attitude!! Good to see you have your priorities right..gretaboy wrote:I ride to an office, located in close to CBD suburbs, where I use the time to rest and recover until my afternoon ride home
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Postby BrisVegas » Tue May 15, 2012 12:55 pm
We've got a secure cage for bikes in the basement carparks, and there are showers and lockers and clothes drying racks etc. can't complain.
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Postby tmurray » Tue May 15, 2012 6:20 pm
I ride through a light industrial area and I'd say you're right that few tradies cycle (and those that do seem to cycle short distances without helmets or lights, if you'll pardon the assumptions).
The first part of my ride is into the city and there are loads of other cyclists, the second half is out of the city and there aren't a lot of people doing it. But heaps going in. So I agree, I think it's an office worker / uni student thing mostly.
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Postby bigfriendlyvegan » Tue May 15, 2012 11:26 pm
Be loud and proud people; "If he can do it, so can I".
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Postby westab » Wed May 16, 2012 7:25 am
My workplace is good to ride to as they let me park my bike behind my desk and there are showers and lockers for anyone who requires them. Mind you being an office worker I do get last dibs on the lockers. When I started here I had to wait for 12months for a locker - or a big deal my boss understood at the time and cleared space in the top of one of the filing cabnets for me to put cloths in.
If we have customers in our office there are generally two bikes parked in the office - most people these day think it is good and comment they wish they could do it.
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Postby Orion » Thu May 17, 2012 7:39 pm
EOT facilities are basic. I lock my bike to a post at the building where I work as the bike racks are real secure. There is a shower and that's about it.
I am the only person at my workplace who rides although I receive many encouraging comments from other staff.
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Postby bosvit » Thu May 17, 2012 8:10 pm
Now that I am working for the Council as a garden gnome, I can ride every day and I have a very secure area to leave my bike and in a couple of months there will be shower facilities which will come in handy.
I only ride in 3 times a week as the other two days I have kids sport etc. I tend to leave early a couple of times a week and turn a 10km each way trip into a pre work traning ride of about 50km.
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