So, I got a great late 80's Schwinn Traveller from my brother-in-law for $20 that got me into really bike commuting this season. It's probably my best bike. Smooth as glass. Then, I got a great garage sale Trek hardtail for $10 that I put slicks on and a rack and made into my commuter. I converted a water-resistant surplus knapsack I had laying around into a sweet panier bag for the rack. Those are my two nicer bikes. Some would probably call them beaters, but they're the nicer ones. Then, the guy at the gas station across the street gave me an 80's Azuki Sebring that was a mess. He didn't want to use the dumpster space to get rid of it. I cleaned it up and put on the switched out tires and tubes from my Schwinn. The Azuki's now my beater roadbike. When the drs go, it'll be a singlespeed or a fixie project. Right away thereafter, my mother-in-law gave me a 90's Huffy "mountainbike" she had behind the shed. Everything works. I bought a $2.00 rack for it from Salvation Army just last night. That's going to be my winter beater. I just moved my office, and my commute is even closer than before. I think I'm set with my stable. Really. Okay, maybe I'm just a packrat, but I really don't want my two favorite bikes ripped off or jacked up from crappy weather before their time. Plus, I got a real thrill turning the two free bikes into working bikes that I don't feel I really have to worry about. All in all, the total cost for the bikes is cheaper than one "good" bike, and I'm pretty satisfied. Total cost is cheaper than a tank of gas. They paid for themselves in gas and parking right away. If bike commuting had cost me an arm and a leg to get into, I probably wouldn't have gotten into it. It's nice that things turned out the way they did.