RoseC - thanks for starting this thread - and congrats at biking to work! I love the advice from those of you who can bike commute everyday.

I started biking to work this summer. Two days a week I work at a site about 10 miles from home, so I bike there - my actual office is more like 20 miles and I'd have to work up to that.

This is a real treat for me. During the school year I have drop off/pick up kids at school, and after the ride in/out I'd have a three hour work day.

The best part of my communte is the stretch when the bike route goes under the jam-packed, motionless freeway that I'm not sitting in!