I was jealous of those schwinns with the sparklie banana seats!!! I was jealous until the day I bought my very own build in England Road bike. It was stolen just a year after I bought it. I had junkers for years afterwards. I used a J.C. Penney 10 speed as a commuter bike throught high school and college then put upright handlebars on it and a wider seat. My dad used it for quite some time before he gave it to a kid just 2 years ago. That bike was lets see.....25 years old!

Now I have a road bike, a comfort bike and I am shopping for a mountain bike. My LBS calls it my "string" as in...are you buying lube for the whole string?