Pros: you get to do what you bought the bike for, to ride. On the way home take a longer ride and blow the snot out of your head after a crappy day at work.

Con: you might get wet if an unforseen rain blows in. If you pay attention to the weather that shouldn't happen to often. Little rain never hurt anyone.

Oh, why not take a clean shirt with you? Your co-workers probably would appreciate it.

 

I retired a year ago July. I commuted about 31 miles each way for 40 years. As a salesman, when I needed to take customers to lunch or shipyards, or to the docks, I drove my car. In winter, rain, snow, I drove my car. Car got about 28mpg average.

My commute was 1/2 freeway at 70+ then arterials, or a scenic thoroughfare. Basically from outside North Bend, Wa to Bellevue.

I used two bikes to commute. As gas taxes drove prices higher and congestion made traveling more scientific. Also, as work changed, we as an industry did not take people to lunch as often, usually only when factory people came to visit. That freed me to ride.

My '96 XL883 was a perfect commute motorcycle. Washington allows motorcycles to use the commute lanes and even provides a free pass for the fee lanes. Why, it was safer. I took my Road King when I needed to make calls outside Seattle. The sporty was perfect for running across the bridge and making calls in Seattle. I always found free parking for my sporty. I used my Road King for outside Seattle, especially trips to Canada and customers north of Everett, or on the Olympic or Kitsap Peninsula and anywhere on the coast from Eureka to Port Townsend. Being able to use the commute lanes actually made it faster and safer in the urban hwys where commute and fee lanes had been added. One nice thing about commuter lanes, fewer people using their phones.

Since Washington passed two laws, driving got worse. The no cellphone law is ignored by everyone including the police. And like it or not, legalizing marijuana just added to our DUI problems, only now, at 5:30 AM we have impaired drivers. Let me just say, the Seattle area has a LOT of pot heads in all walks of life. Even the ones who think they are okay are dangerous to motorcyclists. I have many friends who smoke dope and I willnot ride with them anymore. Too many close calls.

 

Pros-You'll be on your bike.
Cons-

 

Agreed

 

I can not arguing your statement!

 

I used to do it back in the day but I do not like to ride in downtown Tampa. They call it malfunction junction for a reason. I will probably work a part time job in the little town that I live in once I retire next year and I will commute on the bike weather permitting. Here in Florida this time of year it is beautiful in the morning and serious rain and lightning storms in the afternoon at quitting time, not a good ride home.

 

My ride to work is 28 miles one way (Ruskin to MacDill AFB and I go thru downtown Tampa). It's multi-lane roads for the most part that can get up to highway speeds at times but lots of traffic lights and lots of traffic which translates to stop-n-go particularity in the afternoon. I like to try and ride the bike in 2-3 times a week, but that's highly variable. The weather is a factor but other things, like needing to stop at a store for something that can't fit in a backpack, or I've got someplace to be after work and don't want to go dripping in sweat factor in to the decision.

 

I ride 27 miles each way 5 days per week. On the way to work a short hop on the interstate and then a nice ride through the country side her in North Texas the rest of the way. Get to watch the sun come up most mornings. After a long day in the classroom a nice ride out to the interstate and fly home. I am always rejuvenated by the time I get home. Summer heat is never a problem and the cold I can dress for. My first choice is always the bike it just makes me feel alive.

 

37 miles one way; been doing it for 32 years. After all that time on the road, I'm sick of asphalt, so it makes sense to ride back/to on the bike, otherwise, I'd be leaving the house just to ride.

Pros:
You're on the bike; it's why you bought it.
Spring and Fall; cool in the mornings, decent in the evenings.
You're on the bike!
Summer; can be cool or warm in the mornings; both are good for riding.
You're on the bike!
44 mpg
Pipes, brother; PIPES!

Cons:
Summer; most often HOT in the evenings.
Winter; can be 60°F in the afternoons, can be 20°F in the mornings; watch the weather and take your chances.

 

Aaaaamen to that! Rode my Sporty to work for a brief period of 20 degree weather in Korea, and it was only a couple miles. Ice built up in the tranny, and let's just say that replacing a shifter cam follower, in Korea, in an auto hobby shop with no specialized tools, in the middle of the winter, is NOT fun.

Make sure and take your scoot out on long runs on a regular basis to be sure to get her up to full operating temperature.