8-10 miles in a place like Austin or Phoenix in the summer in 105-115 degree heat really sucks, and you need a shower when you get to where you're going, unlike most European cities, although I imagine some parts of Italy and Spain would similarly suck with the humidity.
> 8-10 miles in a place like Austin or Phoenix in the summer in 105-115 degree heat really sucks, and you need a shower when you get to where you're going
Some work colleague of me does a 25 km bicycle ride for each direction (so altogether about 50 km) for commuting each day he is in the office. Yes, he likes going by bicycle.
After getting to the office building, he takes a shower (there exist showers in the basement of the office builing). He actually loves to promote the possibility of this way of living as a benefit to potential new hires.
In other words: where is the problem? Take a shower if you like to or it is necessary after the commute.
I'm 8km from the school I teach at. That's just enough to make me sweaty. Showering at school is perhaps possible (there is a tiny faculty locker room on the other end of campus) but not really realistic.
I'm considering an e-bike to make the idea more realistic. A couple more miles per hour with a little less effort changes everything.
A bigger problem, unfortunately, is that I'd need to travel along a really busy highway at each end of the journey, and it kills cyclists with some regularity.
