Arto's Blog - Latest Comments on Good bye bicycles, we'll go sailing! https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/main/?disp=comments en-EU http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 ajt in response to: Good bye bicycles, we'll go sailing! Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:23:38 +0000 c4962@https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/ <p>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.</p> <p>Buying the bikes in Santiago would have been another alternative. I checked the second hand market online (for example, go to <a href="http://www.mercadolibre.cl/" class="linebreak" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.mercadolibre.cl/</a> and search for &#8220;Trek&#8221; 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. </p> <p>Selling the bicycles in El Chalten was surprisingly easy. It&#8217;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.</p> 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.

]]> https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/main/2015/02/27/good-bye-bicycles#c4962 Jessica Kutz in response to: Good bye bicycles, we'll go sailing! Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:25:44 +0000 Jessica Kutz c4961@https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/ Hello! i was just wondering did you bye your bicycles in Chile? If so where did you find second hand bikes? And by the sounds of it it is pretty easy to sell bicycles in Chalten? Thanks! Jessica https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/main/2015/02/27/good-bye-bicycles#c4961