Cycling is definitely not on the list of "cheap" sports! I swim a lot, and did before I started biking, and used to think that $13 for goggles and $60 for a suit was expensive. Then I started shopping for a road bike... woah. you know you've found a pricey hobby when a set of rims goes for $1500.
A guy on our team claims he hasn't spent more than $800 on any one of his bikes ever (he only keeps two at a time). This same guy was calculating how many bikes a month he could buy with his new salary at Dow
Women's clothes are hard enough to find, but inexpensive ones? I'm almost convinced that they're non-existent. I generally shop for funky/retro guys' jersey's on e-bay... I saw a few for under $10! but a lot of them are kind of ugly...