Originally Posted by TroN0074

Man! riding your bike and commuting to works suppose to be cheaper than driving your car right? Well that doesnt seem to be the case in my experience so far.

Well just like every good commuter I got a mountain bike to commute during the winter months, sure I had to get it ready for snow season so had to buy studded tires $100 each tire
a dyno hub plus lights $325 + additional lights because it is really dark where I work $150

Winter is over and who like to be carrying a heavy mountain bike right? well got me a road bike for the summers spring and fall months. For safety reasons I need lights on it so Another dyno hub plus lights $325 additional lights $30 just $30 because I was able to transfer some lights from the mountain bike. And yeah that road bike needed a tune up so it $75 at the friendly LBS.
During my commute last week two spokes from the real wheel broke so back to the shop and who knows how much that will be.

So back to the mountain bike while the road bike is being fix, the comfort seat post that bike has felt a part and back to the shop I went to get a new one $40 for a seat post.

I don't even know how to explain to my wife where that money is going. And I still need to get a new rear wheel on my road bike which currently has a 27 inch but I want to match the 700c the front wheel has with the dyno hub. That will be what? another $100 if I find a rear wheel on the cheap.

It is crazy man, Crazy! I didn't even add the cost on cargo rack+fenders+panniers for the two commuters on this post. How do you guys deal with that?

Sorry I am just not feeling too awesome about it so I had to vent here. thank you for letting me do so.