I'm going to buy a mountain bike, no more gas guzzling for me!

[Zech Marquis]

:bounce: There's one way to show * and the BFEE gang how they won't be getting me to pay big mney at the gas pump--a nice bicycle:

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=cm_reviews_dp_seemore/601-7467347-5883356?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=&frombrowse=1&alt%5Fview=custReviews&anchor=B0001M2AV425001118952123&asin=B0001M2AV4

With my credit improving, I was all set to stat looking at a car, but not now...at least I'll be able to enjoy some nice biking trails and have fun.

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. Thats great

where do you live? Must be nice to be in a place where a car is not needed...damn suburbs! Not only do you get to stick it to the man, you get some great cardio

[Zech Marquis]

2. I'm very lucky

that my job is only about 1.6 miles from me, so I can walk..but a bicycle I'll be there much much sooner. This will help a great deal when it becomes fall and winter.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. Consider a road instead of a mountain bike

if you are looking at doing serious commuting. The low-end $500-600 road bikes are good for commuting.

Examples are the Giant OCR3
http://www.giant-bicycles.com/us/030.000.000/030.000.000.asp?model=11027

Or the Trek 1000C WRD
http://www2.trekbikes.com/Bikes/Road/Comfort_Road/Alpha_Aluminum/1000C_WSD/index.php

[TimeChaser]

4. Great!

At college, I plan on carpooling and/or walking, since there's a little town nearby.

Oh, and your username brings back memories of 'Anime Whose Line is it Anyways' that my friend used to make. We did Gundam Wing outtakes, and I pulled a helmut down over my eyes and ran into things.

[asthmaticeog]

5. If you're going to commute with it,

replace the knobby mud-tires those are sold with with a set of street tires. You'll thank yourself for doing so, I assure you.

BTW - ditto CatholicEdHead. If this is for commuting, there's NO WAY you'll need 21 gears and that heavy a frame. I have a mountain bike I used to offroad with, and I didn't want to buy a new one when I gave that up and started using a bike for commuting, so I put road-slicks on it, but seriously, all those gears are just overkill, even for trail riding. I've never used more than 7 of 'em.

[Lady Effingbroke]

6. buying a bicycle instead of a car !!! awesome!!!

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