1. Don’t buy the most expensive, nor the cheapest one. Even if the most expensive is 1,000 times the price of the cheapest, their actual difference is only log 1000 = 3.
2. Don’t argue over which is better between the Dead Horse Coward and Kanapunu sets—they’re like your left and right feet, which one is more useful?
3. Don’t be obsessed with foreign bikes. Ever tasted KFC or McDonald’s?
4. Don’t look down on second-hand bikes from street stalls—they offer the best performance-to-price ratio, unless you’re so rich that money is all you have left.
5. Don’t make impulse buys—when you have the cash, you’re the boss; when you want returns or exchanges, you’re the lowly one.
6. Don’t upgrade or swap parts—buy a whole bike instead... Parts are only useful for junk collectors... either the wealthy kind, or the beggar kind. Unless you’re going down that path too.
7. No matter how good a bike is, it’s still just a bike—it can’t outrun a car. Just like no matter how good a snail is, it’s not a cow, and will never give milk.
8. Don’t mess around with flashy features... There’s only one way to fix shifting issues... just get a single-speed bike.
9. Don’t cling to so-called classic bikes... Classics are just outdated—if they weren’t, why call them classics? New things are usually better than old ones.
10. The most important rule: A bicycle is for riding.