Originally Posted by B. Carfree

I indulge myself on my bike spending.

Originally Posted by bragi

I don't know, it's hard to tell, because a lot of my expenditures on bikes are purely discretionary, bike-geek type purchases. I spent $120 on a Brooks saddle I didn't actually need; I have a USB bike light that is very nice, but the $30 Cat Eye that it replaced was perfectly functional; when I did a wheel re-build this year, I could have gone cheap, but I went with $200 wheels instead, just because I could. Yes, it's totally unnecessary and self-indulgent, but compared to the cost of even a modest used car, it's still a bargain. Including insurance, fuel, licensing and maintenance, my last car cost me about $200-250/month. Most months, I drove the car about 20 miles, so that's about $10.00/mile. In the last year, including my many self-indulgent purchases, I've spent about $900.00 on my bike, or about $75.00/month. Very conservatively, I ride about 3,500 miles a year. So, that's about $0.26/mile...