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[luckyone]

My friend and i are looking for a couple of basic mountain bikes, just wondering if there are any used bike stores in Seoul.
I live in Jamsil and have had a pretty good look around this area and found nothing.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks

[superdave]

honestly, if you're looking at bikes that you can thrash the hell out of, you can buy new ones for less than $100 ...

[skindleshanks]

You could check the local buy/sell papers, although it's all in Korean. If you're looking for something of reasonably good quality, I have a hardly-ever used bike that I don't want to sell, but my wife does. It was about 400,000 or so a couple years back, and it has been ridden a few times and stored inside ever since. I'd want about 230,00 for it. If you're really interested I could send pictures to you.

[ilovebdt]

[lion]

My first year here, I bought a second-hand bike (heavy crappy mountain bike) for 50k at a bike shop that also had new bikes, and just last week I helped a friend buy one for 40k (one of those ones with little wheels) at another place.

It's worth simply stopping in at every little mom&pop bike store near you, especially if they don't look very upscale, because any of them could have something.

Never seen a shop with only used bikes though.

[luckyone]

thanks guys i managed to pick up a really nice almost new bike for 95,000won, I appreciate the advice.