[TomE.]

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So it's 30 minutes each way and then the ride on top of it? That's a long-ass lunch. Good thing you're the boss! Is your bike full suspension, front suspension, or hard tail?

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Yes, it's good to be the king. But, I'm there from 6:00am to 5:00pm usually, so I don't think 2 hours here or there will kill anyone. There just aren't any trails near my home, so it's easier to ride during the workweek. Plus, I save myself the indignity of having to beg the missus to leave the house.

My bike's the aforementioned Specialized Hardrock hardtail. I wanted it something similar to my BMX cruiser since that's what I am used to. But knowing what I know now, that the disciplines are not that similar, I may have looked more closely at a full suspension.

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I have the opposite preference: the whole prepping of the bike thing and process is too much for me. A friend coerced me into getting full suspension Gary Fisher bike a few years ago and I rode it a fair amount, then last week dusted it off for the first time in two full years. Because to be honest I'm mostly in it for the sweat, so it's way easier to just go to the gym, where my preference lately is to get on a bike with a TV attached to it AND get something to read and turn on the golf channel or something and just go for an hour. Kind of a shame I'm lame like that because Phoenix has a very well known selection of bike trails and there are canals and bike lanes on roads near my place that make it as safe as that sort of thing gets.

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You are much more disciplined than I am WRT to working out. I have a recumbent bike in my basement smack dab in front of the 50" TV, and I can't bring myself to ride the damn thing for more than 20 minutes, which is the length of a Tivo'd sitcom if you blast thru the commercials.

It would be nice to be in a progressive city such as yours where they actually give people an excuse to get outside, but Detroit is old money and old school - no bike lanes for us.