Mainly to get to work (10 minutes), but also all other short ways and occasionally getting out in nature.
As soon as money allows it, I'll get a better one though. It's used and I mainly bought it because the seller was close to where I live, but I need a larger frame and I want more modern mechanics, e.g. disc brakes, overall.
Well that is one of the things I have no idea about. But maybe it depends on the type of mechanism you use? I can't imagine it would be too hard with my bike.
It's not that expensive, people buy TVs for 5000+, it's just very inconvenient for pretty much everything except games that are made for it.
If you die from second heroin, you die in real life.
The basis in reality is called hype. There are a lot of goods with low or no intrinsic value that are expensive anyways because of hype.
You can have my legs for $10 trillion.
The article doesn't mix them up, OPs title does.
Repairing your bike is easy and checking the important parts every couple of months makes riding it a lot better.
More RAM would be kinda nice though.
The "honest" is silent.
Good beer is good beer.
Europe are already shitting their pants because of a couple of thousand migrant, so guess what will happen when it gets into the 100.000s.
I'm expecting full dystopia.