Originally Posted by
KenshiBiker
For a 10 minute ride to a college campus, any college campus, I'd go buy the cheapest, POS, BSO I could find (that would somewhat fit my body size/leg length). I would buy a decent lock, and assume I would need to replace the BSO several times per year (thus almost guaranteeing no one would steal it).
When I was in college I commuted on a 80's Schwinn Predator BMX bike (black chrome!) and it was great. Solid frame, but not flashy parts, looked like a beater, and you can't discount how handy it is having an extremely nimble bike to weave in/around pedestrians, and hop curbs on campus. 10/10 would use a BMX bike for this purpose again.