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From: kimh@tekig1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle,net.travel
Subject: Bicycles in Italy
Message-ID: <1633@tekig1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-May-84 04:42:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 04:42:05 1984
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My hard-core biker brother is going to Italy for six weeks to ride around
and soak up culture.  He's trying to decide whether to take the fairly nice
bike he now owns, or try to buy one in Rome upon arrival.  He's been told
that people do get ripped off, and he's already experienced losing a treasured
steed once in life (if I remember right, it was the *first* Tom Kellogg frame
that some slug saw fit to relieve him of).  Also, the charter flight wants
$70 each way to carry a bike.

So what do you think?  Should he take or buy?  He has an easy way to unload
a bike (in France) on the way home, should he choose, so that's not an issue.
He doesn't want to spend his whole vacation shopping for bikes, and he's not
too confident about bargaining in Italian.  Anyone else try this?  Recommended
shops?  Advice?  He's leaving the 18th of May, so if this takes *that* long
to reach far corners of the net, feel free to disregard.

-- Kim

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