Some nice stories, I started in June 2010 with a pos mountain bike for Kmart and it kept broking down fd, rd, chain rusted, then a friend I meet introduced me to his bike shop and that is where I got my first real bike. It was a Raleigh Misceo 1.0 in white I enjoyed it, also I was at the same time into RC car racing but that came to an end so I continued biking and racking up the miles.i have gone through 13 bikes in 4 years but trading or buying a another kind of bike. I use my bikes for transportation now more than for fitness. I have had 4 road bikes, a folding bike, two mountain bikes and a few hybrid bikes. I have counted over 21,000 miles so far and continuing.