First post :wave:

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400 for diamondback insight with 28c armadillos
160 for maintenance over three years
60ish for sks full fenders
30 for rear rack
37 for a bike pump
35 in tubes
260 for a chrome berlin with all the fixins (and totally worth it, as a student who needs to make sure the graphing calculator, textbooks, notes, hw, etc are all and always totally dry)

having a good reason to finally quit smoking (and succeeding) (again):
priceless

FWIW My car broke down in January. I used to commute to and from school. Get there in the same time as I do via car (3 miles of relatively steep urban potholey gradient). I was going to buy a new car from my summer earnings but **** it, why? I'll spend 10k on paying off most of my student loans, 1.5k to splurge on some really nice fairweather commuter/touring bike, and save the rest for taking my girlfriend out to thai food whenever I want without needing to really budget.

Interesting factor, our relationship has become much closer now that we both commute everywhere via bike.