<p>I'm a high school senior preparing to attend Georgia Tech in fall 07. I'm definitely going to have a bike for getting around campus, but my different options are a little bit daunting.</p>
<p>I have an older road bike that I could use, but it's built such that I couldn't put fenders and knobbier tires on it as I would like to. I've also considered a medium-grade BMX bike due to their durability, the difficulty involved in stealing them, and their size. Can anyone give me any advice on that option specifically?</p>
<p>Also, what kind of bike do you use, and what have you used in the past? Which have you found to be the best option? Thanks guys.</p>
<p>I just bought my dad a Trek hybrid style bike. It is between a street bike and mountain bike and it is very comfortable to ride. I have only tried it a little bit but it seems pretty nice. Here is a link to it... or at least I think this is the model...</p>
<p>No one really cares what you have. I would just say, get a mountain bike and you're fine. I see very few BMX bikes (which you'll soon understand). You can get a cheap bike from wal-mart, and it doesn't matter as long as it gets you from point A to point B. </p>
<p>On a side note, if we were talking about cars, I would tell you that what your driving does matter, but. In the case of the bike, no one cares.</p>
<p>i go to a school with a fairly urban campus (Yale in New Haven) and I've found that my Jamis Citizen road/mountain hybrid works fine. think about how urban/rural your campus is.</p>
<p>I chose to get a folding bike because I knew I'd be driving to campus, so with the folding bike I can pop the bike in & out of the trunk of my car everyday & get around campus. That way, I don't have to leave the bike outside overnight to be exposed to the weather or stolen. I could have also gotten a regular bike & a bike rack, but those are tacky & I was worried about scratching my paint.</p>
<p>Haha, do not buy expensive bike. Trust me. I have a $50 bike and I am happy with that cuz there are some many freshmans here in UCD whose expensive and cool bikes were stolen/damaged. Oh and most of my friends own cheap bikes too.</p>
<p>Cruisers, cuz it is very hard to bike cruisers w/o hands. And trust me, you'll learn how to bike w/o hands in college and it is very helpful. There were times when I was biking, holding coffee and eating sandwich at the same time.</p>
<p>Get something that wouldn't make you all teary-eyed when you find it's run over by a bus because you had to brake, swerve, & jump off of to avoid hitting an obnoxious freshman that just decided to step into the bike lane, going downhill.</p>
<p>I second or third or whatever the $50 bikes. Don't go for knobby/thick tires unless you are trying to get a good workout while you bike to class. Those bikes are slow, and the extra work will become old very quickly when you are in a hurry or have to make a breakneck trip back to your dorm room the morning of a final exam bc you forgot the right calculator :D Nice/expensive bikes are the wisest choice bc people will vandalize them just for fun, and especially if they cannot remove them from a bike rack. I go to Purdue, and the BMX bikes are actually fairly commonplace, but I cannot help but laugh at how silly the guys who ride them look.</p>
<p>You will have to watch out for the sober people who still cannot seem to walk in a straight line on the sidewalks if your campus lacks those wonderful inventions called bike lanes!</p>
<p>Oh, and I ride a Roadmaster Mt. Climber that I bought from a used bike shop for about $50 :)</p>