Why have a bike at all? Why not just walk? Or drive? Take the bus? The train?

Maybe when you answer those questions, you'll know the answer to yours.

Or, maybe you prefer a full-on carbon road-bike with stripes and stickers and marketing gobbeldeygook all over the side, and words that are misspelled like "X-Treme" so that they could be copyrighted and trademarked.

Others prefer absolute simplicity.