Posted on 04/17/2022 3:37:07 PM PDT by real saxophonist
Edited on 04/17/2022 9:49:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
You should be able to get a respectable, general purpose bike for $500 to $1000. Not a Chinese Amazon special.
Having said that, at my local bike shop, I've seen pricing go as high as $7k to $8k for a bike (this is middle market Thailand...for the high end $10k+ bikes, you'd have to go to Bangkok, where the super-wealthy Thais live or Phuket, where the super-wealthy Russian oligarchs live)
Quite a few years ago some poor sap burglarized the Chiefs house. Full resources of DPD. Detectives forensics everything. They got him. Break in at my house? They didn’t bother to investigate.
Cheaper to just get them insured.
I have two Treks and they are great bikes.
first rate.
And always a good deal.
Well, they said they had a $5,000 deductible so no point in filing a claim. Seems like recovering the other $3,000 in value might be a point for filing but what do I know?
It seemed a little odd to me that they didn’t want to file a claim but were willing to offer money to someone (even the thieves themselves) to get the bikes back.
If they don’t want hassles it might be best to just buy all new ones. Inviting thieves and homeless people to come and negotiate a return sounds like guaranteed hassle to me.
“They didn’t bother to investigate.”
Haitian freighters in the Miami River are ringed topside with about 100 bikes each.
Police say NONE are stolen.
Modern bikes look funny to me, but If I was still riding (I was the world’s slowest Cat. 3 in the late 70’s to late’80’s) I would appreciate the lightness. But I’d also have custom Columbine frame with Super Record and a Brooks Pro. The bicycle version of what is called a “barbecue gun”.
Your bikes talk? Wow, that's mondo-coolio! Do you have to pull the string on the back of their neck or does it work off batteries? Then I guess French one speaks Frog, huh?
How can you tell an Italian bike?
Six or more letters ending in a vowel.
Dago here, dago there, and when the tires are flat dago wop wop wop!
An oldie but a goodie.
I have a Bianchi Nuovo Racing with Campy and Shimano eq. which I paid a couple grand for in about 1980 and only roade about 300 miles. I can’t remember if its columbus SL or Tretubi. Its should be a wall ornament in some very expensive condo.
I’ve been thinking about getting a bike from the Salvation Army store
Anybody who pays $8,000 for bikes I want to play poker with them.
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