If it's bike, it's good. I commute 20 miles/day, all year, all weather. My basement bicycle breeding experiment leans heavily towards 80's steel & mostly Japanese. In the last year I did my first century, I raced cross, short track mtb, and a little road. All on steel. I aspire to randonneur-hood. I'm a teacher and I'm teaching summer school so I can put aside some money for a custom rando bike. I've been accused of being obsessive about all this, but I'm still happily married.