My car got Repo'ed. I rode on a department store schwinn mountain bike until that gave on me after three months. I then started talking to a friend of a friend about his wierd fixed gear bike, and found an old road frame and made it into a ghetto single speed. Bought another road frame made that into a ghetto single speed and am currently converting it to a fixed gear.
Since I was commuting I got interested in the right way to ride my bike, the most efficent way, and then found that I perfer cycling to any other form of transportation, aside from flying, but I can't do that very well...