Buy cheap, buy twice... (and burglars)
... Is the saying. It's true, you know (except perhaps it should be "Buy low quality, buy twice"). I bought a bicycle 4 years ago which was being sold on offer by the local bike shop, and now it's so broken and there's so much wrong with it that it's not even worth repairing - And half the parts aren't even original because they broke after one year.
So yeah, learn to know a good deal from a bad one. I could've bought a better quality bike with the money I've spent on this thing to repair it since I've had it, combined with it's initial cost. And now I have to buy an entire new bike ontop of that. Sure, I've ridden 2500-3000 miles with it in 4 years, but that should be nothing for a bike.
Learn from my fail.
However as I type this, the police helicopter has been hovering over the woods next to my house at 3:40am for the past 20 minutes, plus I keep seeing the occasional flicker of torches in the woods through my windows. Which is a little scary. I guess. And the reason why I'm not in bed yet. Maybe this blog should be about that instead?
Update: Nothing happened. Can't blame criminals for hiding in the woods, I just hate it when the bastards come running here and trying to break into my home to hide from the police, which happened once. I need to sort my fence out.