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jst
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 Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:45 am Post subject: Taxi's will take your bike? |
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I plan on buying a bike from a friend. It comes in the box. It's probably not the heaviest thing (~50lbs), but I don't want to carry the thing all the way home.
Will it be easy to wave down a taxi that will take my bike in the trunk? |
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jvalmer
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Ride your bike home. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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Regular taxi's won't. Even a folding bike won't fit and they freak out when you try to put bikes in the backseat.
Get the number of a van taxi. They will put a bike in the back. |
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yoja
Joined: 30 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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You don't want to carry your bike home, you want to put it in the back of a taxi?? Now that's just ridiculous!
Don't get a bike and ride it around like everyone else. BOR-ING!! Instead, you should get one of those old-timey rickshaws that servants carry. Or a team of sled-dogs. Possibly a pony.
Taxi problem SOLVED. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Taxi's what? |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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If it's still in box, I am assuming it's not assembled. I've taken a great deal of very large and heavy luggage in a taxi alongside my husband and it was no thing.
In box, it's really just a piece of luggage. Don't you worry your head, dear. |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| DorkothyParker wrote: |
If it's still in box, I am assuming it's not assembled. I've taken a great deal of very large and heavy luggage in a taxi alongside my husband and it was no thing.
In box, it's really just a piece of luggage. Don't you worry your head, dear. |
I've taken a bike in a box in a taxi in Korea before. ie, on the way out of Korea to head home, have to have it boxed for the flight home... Depends on the exact length of the box. If its not too long, you can shove it in the back seat of one of those Sonatas and still close both of the back doors. Probably wont fit in the trunk, though, as those taxis usually use that space for an LPG tank. The drivers are like 9 times out of 10 cool about trying to help with your bike box... I bet in your case even more so because you are a female.
One trick I use for this situation is to put the bike box behind you, out of view, so they can't see it right away... Then, they stop, you grab the box and carry it over. They already stopped so they would slightly have to lose face to turn you down on carrying it... if they see it, on the other hand, they might just keep driving and pretend not to see you at all. |
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interestedinhanguk
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| Can you unbox it and take it on the subway (on a Sunday, I believe)? |
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jst
Joined: 14 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:06 am Post subject: |
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| interestedinhanguk wrote: |
| Can you unbox it and take it on the subway (on a Sunday, I believe)? |
It's not assembled. |
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