Tips for keeping my commutes interesting

[TheArchitect]

Odd request perhaps but I ride every day to and from work, around 20 miles round trip. It's not massive journey, probably half an hour max each way.

Doing this journey every day is getting boring and frankly I sometimes feel like taking the tube just for a change of scenery.

I've tried taking different routes to change it up a bit but that gets boring too after a while.

Other than getting a new bike, what would you suggest to spice up my commutes?
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[chickenstrip]

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Add a turbocharger and Nitrous Oxide
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[BrownTrousers]

Ride with left hand on right handlebar and vice versa!

Or, take the tube one time and you'll remember why taking the bike is awesome.
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[wr6133]

Do the entire commute on the back wheel

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Try to do it without using the brakes.
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[hellkat]

Go through a park or a posh bit.

I used to commute 11 miles Docklands to Chelsea, and made a point of going up The Mall and past Buck Pal. Sometimes I'd change it and go along St James instead, another day, another royal palace

I'm off work at the moment, but my current job takes me thru Regents Park: zoo noises. Fun.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Packet of Senokot the previous night, and ride on the rumble strip.
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[Beehive Bedlam]

Remove your number plate.

[Albigularis]

Do the whole commute like this - https://youtu.be/B4KqJYDwxsk

Alternatively, listen to some podcasts/audible books or something?
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[pepperami]

Ride to work naked except for your bash-hat

Try doing it on a pushbike

Every day for a week you must shave 2 minutes off the journey each day
Use someone else`s bike?
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[hellkat]

Or: parking up and windowshopping on the way home.
Oh wait, that's a "bird thing"
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[pepperami]

[hellkat]

Damn I miss the days of filtering like that
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[Dave70]

I used to take a slight diversion and do a lap or two of the TT course before or after work.

Alas, that's a little to far out of the way nowadays.

You could still try to find some nice roads and make a challenge to improve your time and take the bends quicker and better though.
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[chickenstrip]

Each day, choose a different make of car, and see how many mirrors you can kick off from only that make.
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[andym]

Every day on the way home, pick a car and follow it as far as you can (bonus points if you park on their driveway too)

[Mudshark]

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[DanRLee]

Do it with your eyes closed and your left hand only.
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[NJD]

How about no hands?

[1198]

Try by pushbike a couple of times a week, motorbike a couple of times, the tube occasionally.
Basically mix it up a bit.
I have one route to work (I'm usually last minute, and stay in bed as long as possible), but at least four to return, depending on the weather, time I've available and lots of other factors.
When I've done it on a motorbike I've been known to do a 200 mile detour on my return journey, just for the sake of it. (I usually use my push bike)

[angryjonny]

Flip the bird to any rozzers you see. Race them to work.

[bikertomm]

Car mode > Play the 'I'm not letting you out game'

In which no matter how awkward it gets, edge yourself forward and simply block people at their junctions / never let anyone out. (I don't mean block people if they are going another direction e.g. across the road, that would be horrific, just so they aren't in front of you. )

Bonus points for making eye contact as you sit there like a complete cunt.
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[stevo as b4]

Do your commute on someone else's motorbike?
Or pick a different one to go home on each day?

Seriously, Id sometimes use the Train/tube/bus etc (20miles is a bit silly for an average persom to cycle twice a day)

I like the train sometimes, and I can zonk out and go to sleep or just sit an watch other people and their strange habbits!

[Old Git Racing]

See how long you can keep your eyes shut on the straights.

OGR
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