i got a bike!

yeah you read the title. i'm pummped. last night after work i went to a bike shop and scoped out prices for a new bike to get me back and forth to the train station. i have to get a hybrid because i wouldn't be able to do any city riding with a mountain bike (good riding anyways) and road bikes are too expensive. the prices for hybrids ran from $280 for sucky ones and $330 to about $1500 for good ones. yeah expensive.

so i looked on craig's list and found someone selling one for $100. i didn't think it could be in that good of shape, but i went and checked it out and i think it runs as good or better than my old one (which i paid over $300 for). so i bought it, my 5th bike in about 6 years. the first one, college freshman year, i left out in the winter. Second one, sophmore year, someone ran into me, flew over his handle bars and ran off, leaving my front wheel bent. My third one, junior/senior year, got impounded, i got it back, and a few weeks later it got stolen right in front of the engineering building. My fourth one got stolen last Thanksgiving break about 30 feet away from the spot where the other one was stolen in front of the engineering building. I'm not letting this one get out of my site, just hope my co-workers don't mind it sitting in the office whenever i decide to ride to work. thank god for bikes on trains.