Yesterday I was driving across town and noticed I was running on fumes. Filling up the 18 gallon tank cost about $53. That’s US Dollars. This pauperizing event spurred me to visit the bike shop today to replace my old mountain bike that was crumpled by some delinquent high school student (see: my longest post ever) and then sold for a few bucks to some hard-up fellow who had a replacement wheel. I have a friend who works at Sunflower who got me a good deal on this bike. I’m pretty happy with it, but then it doesn’t take much after years of riding the 300lb cast-iron “I’ll shift gears when I damn well feel like it” 1990 Specialized Hard Rock. So… hooray for me. Tomorrow I can get back to riding to work and saving some gas money.