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I am looking for this bike, carried in Taiwan. No response from
faqctory. Does anyone know how I can get it and I woulod pay shipping to US? It works out to about 4600 US incl tax but plus shipping. http://translate.google.com/translat...ct%2Ff20-w.htm |
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Sorry typo should be $600 US
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I am looking for this bike, carried in Taiwan.
Surely there are online taiwanese bike dealers who would ship internationally? Do some more poking around. rms |
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"rms" wrote in message
... | I am looking for this bike, carried in Taiwan. | | Surely there are online taiwanese bike dealers who would ship | internationally? Do some more poking around. | | rms At present one-off shipping rates, it's not likely practical. You'll find UPS, DHL and FedEx all running $400+ these days to ship a bike internationally. Ouch! --Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReactionBicycles.com |
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cmcanulty wrote:
I am looking for this bike, carried in Taiwan. No response from faqctory. Does anyone know how I can get it and I woulod pay shipping to US? It works out to about 4600 US incl tax but plus shipping. http://translate.google.com/translat...ct%2Ff20-w.htm I'll be in Taiwan for the Taipei Int'l Cycle Show in two weeks. If KHS (or whatever they call themselves in Taiwan) is there I'll ask them how to obtain this bicycle in the U.S.. Note that _many_ folding bicycles violate patents held by Dahon and cannot be exported into the U.S. without the manufacturer paying licensing fees or having some sort of cross licensing agreement with Dahon. The executives of Neobike, a Taiwanese folding bicycle manufacturer ended up serving time in jail for patent issues related to Dahon and Brompton (they were manufacturing, under license, Bromptons for sale in Asia (I bought four of them on trips to Taiwan). See "http://www.bikebiz.com/news/20822/Folding-bike-copyists-to-be-jailed-" |
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Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
"rms" wrote in message ... | I am looking for this bike, carried in Taiwan. | | Surely there are online taiwanese bike dealers who would ship | internationally? Do some more poking around. | | rms At present one-off shipping rates, it's not likely practical. You'll find UPS, DHL and FedEx all running $400+ these days to ship a bike internationally. Ouch! On the bright side, some of the higher shipping costs (correlated with energy costs) might encourage more domestic manufacturing of bicycles. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful |
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Tom Sherman wrote: Mike Jacoubowsky wrote: "rms" wrote in message ... | I am looking for this bike, carried in Taiwan. | | Surely there are online taiwanese bike dealers who would ship | internationally? Do some more poking around. | | rms At present one-off shipping rates, it's not likely practical. You'll find UPS, DHL and FedEx all running $400+ these days to ship a bike internationally. Ouch! On the bright side, some of the higher shipping costs (correlated with energy costs) might encourage more domestic manufacturing of bicycles. Unlikely. Shipping one bike via air is expensive. Shipping one container full of bikes via sea is still cheap. At a first-cut estimate, the shipping cost per frame of a well-packed container-load of frames would cost around $1-10. The key thing to realize is that means that shipping isn't an important part of the final cost of a bicycle, except for the very cheapest bikes, or a specific bike you have to have in a week. And very cheap bikes are also the most sensitive to the total cost of manufacture, which means that in general you accept the shipping and enjoy the far cheaper manufacturing and assembly costs of building in China. Even Taiwan is too expensive for really cheap bikes, -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
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On Mar 2, 6:17*am, cmcanulty wrote:
I am looking for this bike, carried in Taiwan. No response from faqctory. Does anyone know how I can get it and I woulod pay shipping to US? It works out to about 4600 US incl tax but plus shipping.http://translate.google.com/translat...F%2Fwww.khsbic... I did see the KHS F20-W at Taipei Cycle a few minutes ago. They do not export this to the United States. It costs about US$600 in Taiwan ($NTD 20,000). It's quite a nice touring folder for the price, but they told me that getting shops in the U.S. to carry folders is very difficult. There are probably 200 different folding bicycles being shown at the show, with some comparable to the Brompton, a lot of higher end road folders, and a lot of lower end folders. Almost none of them are exported to the U.S.. I took a picture of it, but I have no way to post it right now. So get on a plane to Korea or Taiwan if you want one. |
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