Originally Posted by
Ka_Jun
+1, buy a beater. If you've made the committment to commute and leave your rig outside for a period of time, somewhere deep inside you've already come to terms with the fact that one day, you may return to where you locked up and she's not there. Buy a beater, like in the bike version of Bushido, if in your mind, it's already gone, you won't worry about it.
Really, I just don't see the point in riding a $1000+ bike for ten minutes each way, only to leave it outside and exposed to the elements and theives unless you're just a d-bag who wants to impress people by showing up to class on a nice bike.