£120 is about what a yearly service on a good bike costs.
If you work out what a car or even a bus pass would cost for those journeys a year, you might find that you save the equivalent of at least a holiday somewhere nice.
I must say, I'm kind of with you on the inanimate object thing. I only give things names if they're people or they really seem to have character of their own - some bikes do one way or the other
- I think Mrs TaM secretly calls my computer 'Bitch'
