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In response to: Good bye bicycles, we'll go sailing!
We bought our bicycles in Germany already a few weeks before our departure. That way we had plenty of time to prepare them for touring, and do a weekend trip to test them before our long tour.
Buying the bikes in Santiago would have been another alternative. I checked the second hand market online (for example, go to http://www.mercadolibre.cl/ and search for “Trek” which is a popular brand in Chile) and found several which would have been okay as a base. However, we would have still needed to buy racks, drinking bottle holders, perhaps some parts to replace worn out ones and to adjust the bikes for us. In summary: it would have been possible but would have needed extra time in Santiago.
Selling the bicycles in El Chalten was surprisingly easy. It’s a popular area for mountain biking and people appreciate quality bikes. However, trying to sell an expensive touring bike with top of the line equipment might be a different story. We asked 250 USD each for ours (accepting Argentinian pesos for payment), which seemed to be a price locals were willing to pay for a decent bike.
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