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@cornelius_blackfoot
Why would you go cheap on a bike you ride everyday? It's going to be the one that gets the most service, and the one you'll spend the most time, so why shouldn't it be (relatively) expensive. I'm not one for the good bike/beater dichotomy. Because usually you'll start upgrading the beater and as the costs rise its no longer a beater, so why start down that road in the first place.
If you want one bike to rule them all, best to make sure it's a good one.
No one wants to have a bike stolen, but to use the fear of theft as a reason for not riding a well made, comfortable, cool handling frame, with nice components on a daily basis, is weak. No matter how much time and money you have invested in a bike, and/or how attached you have become to it, it is still an inanimate object and can be replaced, if stolen. Obviously it's a ball ache, but then what in life isn't... It's no reason to go cheap on something that you'll use everyday, and will bring you joy, with the ease with which you move from A-B
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