Thursday, May 05, 2005

On Buying a BICYCLE

I am just wonder stuck at the prices of bicycles here. I and Torsten went to buy a bicycle for me. We first went to a second hand shop to see if any cheap bicycles are available.. Yes we found some and they were priced between 3 to 40 thousand Indian Rupees(these are just second hand cycles and not motor cycles).

I felt that we were not needed to go to a first hand shop. First hand ones, according to Torsten, which were cheap(somewhere around 10 thousand Indian Rupees) are not relaible and have bad parts! We did goto the supermarket and we did buy a new one(cheap as defined above) and I returned it in the evening as Torsten's words came true.. two of its nuts broke by the evening.

3 comments:

Chax said...

hmm.. interesting ..
how much do skate boards cost.. ??
may be a few thhousand rupees.
Our costliest cycles are still within
4K bucks.
U know what .. ask ur parents to buy
a cycle from India and send it to u.
I think that'll stil be cheaper.

saka said...

Does those cycles look similar to the ones in India???
:-)

JP said...

Chax..thanks for the idea..but it seems by the time a cycle comes to Germany its cost becomes around 15k..

saka.. many of them are different as they have gears and some of them look worser than our indian cycles..