Okay. Say the bike costs $3,000. If you ride it only once, then that ride will have cost you . . . $3,000. Yeah, that is a lot. But if you ride it again, your cost per ride just dropped by 50 percent. Four more rides, and you're down to $500 per. And it keeps going from there. The more you ride, the cheaper it gets. And if you keep that bike for five years, it works out to $600 a year, or less than two bucks a day. You can't even take the bus for that anymore.
But then you'll be so poor that you'll have to ride the bus . . . .
Exactly! And taking the bus sucks, so you'll ride your new bike instead. See how it all works out?