| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3214 |
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A friend's daughter will be attending the University of Edingurgh during
the 1991/92 school year. She will be spending 6 weeks prior to the
start of school touring the UK on bicycle. Should she purchase her
bicycle over in Scotland (Edinburgh) or should she buy it in Southern
New Hampshire.
Are the prices over in the UK sufficiently higher than in the U.S. to
warrant the aggrevation of the packing/unpacking involved with shipping a
bicycle.
I suppose bicycles in the U.S. start at about $200-300 and go up to
about $500-600 for a pretty decent Univego (sp). At $1.70 to the pound
that would be a range of 120 pounds to 350 pounds.
Appreciate your advice.
Regards,
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| 2010.1 | flying with bikes | DANGER::JBELL | Zeno was almost here | Mon Jul 22 1991 16:50 | 23 |
> Are the prices over in the UK sufficiently higher than in the U.S. to
> warrant the aggrevation of the packing/unpacking involved with shipping a
> bicycle.
According to my brother-in-law, the bike prices in London are
in pounds almost the same as the dollars cost in the U.S..
According to him, a $400 bike would cost about 380 quid.
In fact, the local bike shop wanted to have me buy a Cannondale
at US retail prices, take it over as checked luggage, and sell it
to them for 25% more than I paid.
Packing a bike to take on a plane is not hard. If you're using
the airline's box, you just have to turn the handlebars and
reverse the pedals; the wheels can stay on. (There's usually a bit
of extra room too to stash tents and foam pads too.)
On most international flights, the bike can count as one of the
checked bags. It might be cheaper to take the bike on the plane
and then mail the books at the special book-rate.
-Jeff Bell
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| 2010.2 | Will buy bike in Southern New Hampshire | GBMMKT::BZLOTNICK | Mon Jul 22 1991 20:04 | 10 | |
Jeff, appreciate the advice. I'll forward your note to my friends
daughter and I'm sure she'll purchase the bike in New Hampshire based
on your note. The prices tend to be pretty competitive abound here and
based on what you say it will cost significantly more in the U.K.
I understand it costs more to buy a Japanese bike in Japan than it does
in the U.S. So, I guess we have it pretty good here even if we
complain a lot.
Regards,
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| 2010.3 | ULTRA::WITTENBERG | Uphill, Into the Wind | Mon Jul 22 1991 21:46 | 12 | |
I'd recomend buying it here for because you can get it set up and
make sure that everything works and is comfortable well before the
trip starts. You can probably get the shop you buy it from to pack
it up for you if you ask them when you buy the bike. It doesn't
cost them much.
I like to make all the changes to my bike for a trip and then ride
it 100 to 500 miles before the trip starts to make sure everything
is right. I don't want to ride it much more than that because then
I'd start worrying about things wearing.
--David
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| 2010.4 | Go for the U.S. price | VOGON::REEVE | Underground boring specialist | Tue Jul 23 1991 08:14 | 22 |