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rokricky
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: Yongsan, Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: Is it worth it to buy a bike here and take it back home? |
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I'm going home for summer vacation and when I asked my father what I could take back for him he requested a bike. A folding, aluminum bike, with a front wheel suspension system, and shimano gears. This is the kind of bike that sells at Lotte for about 150,000. Is it really worth it to buy this bike here and lug all the freakin' way back to Canada?
Also....one more. Is it cheaper to buy an MP3 (iRiver) player here or in Canada? |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you Korean? If not...buy in your home country. |
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rokricky
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: Yongsan, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| Are you Korean? If not...buy in your home country. |
........because it's cheaper? |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| ^ wiseguy |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:58 am Post subject: |
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| Buying a bike in Korea and taking it home in order to save money is like being thirsty and then finding a big glass of water in the middle of the desert and then dumping it out all over the sand instead of drinking it. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:10 am Post subject: |
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...then getting bitten in the ass by a rattlesnake!  |
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rokricky
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: Yongsan, Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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What? Okay. Ughhh,  yeah I can see how that makes sense......  |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| If you want one of those folding aluminum bikes, they aren't equipped with Shimano gears and by chance if you do find one it will probably be something like the Altus line or even lower quality. If your dad is really set on a folding bike, just buy a cheap one, take it home and upgrade the components. |
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Cohiba
Joined: 01 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: Duh |
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| spliff wrote: |
| Are you Korean? If not...buy in your home country. |
This has to one of the stupidest comments I have read all week. |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: Duh |
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| Cohiba wrote: |
| spliff wrote: |
| Are you Korean? If not...buy in your home country. |
This has to one of the stupidest comments I have read all week. |
Read any of spliff's posts and you will find the "stupidest comment of the week/day/hour" |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Is your father over 5' 6"? If so, you'll have a hard time finding something to fit him. Besides, bikes will probably be cheaper at home. They aren't made here, anyway. They come from Taiwan or China so they wouldn't really be cheaper. |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
| Is your father over 5' 6"? If so, you'll have a hard time finding something to fit him. Besides, bikes will probably be cheaper at home. They aren't made here, anyway. They come from Taiwan or China so they wouldn't really be cheaper. |
Yeah, as an aside, I'd like to mention that the cycle racing high school teams are only allowed to purchase bikes made in Korea -- Corex, Interpro, and some other Korean brands no one has ever heard of. It's because the government 'must buy korean' if taxes are paying for it, even if the quality blows in the particular kind of good they are buying.
But the funny thing is that, despite the bikes being of Korean brands, they are all made in Taiwan and shipped back to Korea... |
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