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Billy Danze
Joined: 25 Oct 2009
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:08 pm Post subject: Good place to rent bikes in Seoul? |
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All I know are the ones like in Yeouido where you can get pretty silly mountain bikes. Any good bike shops to rent bikes which would be good for a long ride around the Han?
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bassist33

Joined: 07 Jul 2009 Location: Mok-dong, Seoul
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:11 am Post subject: |
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Don't know if it's too far out of the way, but in Mokdong you can rent bikes for free. There is a shack in center walking path just southwest of Paris park. It's real close to the baseball stadium. I'm sure there are others around the city. All you do is leave your ARC card with them and return the bike by 5. It's a short ride to the Han from there. |
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nosmallplans

Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Location: noksapyeong
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:33 am Post subject: Re: Good place to rent bikes in Seoul? |
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Billy Danze wrote: |
All I know are the ones like in Yeouido where you can get pretty silly mountain bikes. Any good bike shops to rent bikes which would be good for a long ride around the Han?
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How nice of a bike are we talking about?
Storck Bicycles in Hannam will loan you Fascenario with Zipp 404s and fully Campy Super Record for W80,000 a day. |
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Billy Danze
Joined: 25 Oct 2009
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 7:01 am Post subject: Re: Good place to rent bikes in Seoul? |
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nosmallplans wrote: |
Billy Danze wrote: |
All I know are the ones like in Yeouido where you can get pretty silly mountain bikes. Any good bike shops to rent bikes which would be good for a long ride around the Han?
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How nice of a bike are we talking about?
Storck Bicycles in Hannam will loan you Fascenario with Zipp 404s and fully Campy Super Record for W80,000 a day. |
Hmmm, guess I'm looking for something inbetween the pieces of spaghetti you can rent in Yeouido and 80K. That sounds like a great bike, but I'm not trying to enter a race or anything. I'll check the place out though, thanks for the tip, if you know of anything else let me know.
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Todstar
Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Location: Hakdong/London
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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I couldnt find anything so bought a cheap folding mountain bike on gmarket it was 66 dollars plus a couple for delivery and turned up the next day. You wont win any races or be the envy of your friends but its far superior to anything you can rent at the river, all the gears work and both the brakes work, for that money it does a job just fine - and it came with a lock!! |
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Forever

Joined: 12 Nov 2009
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lovebug
Joined: 29 Apr 2009
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:54 am Post subject: |
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this might be out of your way too, but there's an AWESOME new thing that's started along the canal from eungam to at least world cup stadium that has the rent stations where you get a bike from one dock and drop it off from another (or the same if you wish). it's very similar to the system they have in barcelona, and bunch of other cities. i only got to check it out after hours, but i'm sure they're easy to figure out. perhaps if you do some research, you'd be able to find out if there are other bike docks spread out in other parts of the city....
the bikes were brand new and looked decent, much better than the yeouido ones... |
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blackjack

Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Location: anyang
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:08 am Post subject: |
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lovebug wrote: |
this might be out of your way too, but there's an AWESOME new thing that's started along the canal from eungam to at least world cup stadium that has the rent stations where you get a bike from one dock and drop it off from another (or the same if you wish). it's very similar to the system they have in barcelona, and bunch of other cities. i only got to check it out after hours, but i'm sure they're easy to figure out. perhaps if you do some research, you'd be able to find out if there are other bike docks spread out in other parts of the city....
the bikes were brand new and looked decent, much better than the yeouido ones... |
didn't some one post here earlier that they only work with Korean national ids.
Our ones start with the wrong number |
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lovebug
Joined: 29 Apr 2009
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:17 am Post subject: |
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i didn't see that post. my coteacher's always happy to let me use her ID number for stuff like that. |
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