After virtually no riding between the age of 18 and my 48th birthday last September. Arond that time, I started riding an old $40 MTB I bought on Craig's List. 1,000 miles later, I picked up an old road bike that had been thrown in a dumpster and started riding that. A few hundred miles after that, I was riding every day and decided to purchase a new road bike. Thought it stupid to rush home from work to go riding so I converted the old roadie into a commuter in early April and started riding to work.