Commuter Newbie Help

[shootingstar]

Good advice about keeping makeup, certain things at work to make it easier.

Rather funny, ee cummings, forgetting your underpants.

For work commuting (did it for 16 yrs. Different employers in different locations in Toronto and Vancouver), I used panniers. I never used knapsack. My rides were average 50 min. long. Even for employers close to home, I deliberately lenghthened by route 5 times longer just to integrate some fitness.

Backpacks make me sweat. No point doing more sweating when getting to work. And too bulky for me to stuff work clothes and some paperwork.

Since we don't have a car, at times bike ride homeward, might include a stop for groceries. Panniers are my most flexible transport storage bag.

I am a small person, narrow back width and having a backpack with alot of weight while I'm riding regularily up and down hills, in my opinion is not healthy for my back/posture. That's just me.