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Wow.

Anyway, a bike can save you a bundle, if you can keep it running. It is also a pretty good "learn how to wrench" platform, being comparatively simple and inexpensive to purchase/insure/register/fix/mod.

Of course working on bicycles is an excellent precursor to working on motorbikes, and a bicycle can handle a whole lot of jobs as well and get gnarly mpg (though food calorie btu well-to-colon wise it aint so good, but health wise fuggetaboutit)