Folding Bike and GIANT Store Toritsudaigaku Tokyo
Hi,
Just to add my two cents worth regarding follding bikes:
I just purchased a GIANT folding bike and the bag to go with it:
http://www.giant.co.jp/giant08/bike_datail.php?p_id=L1642099&action=outline
So far so good, though I had to change the seatpost (needed a longer one).
I think this bike is very good concept wise and seems well thought through.
However, a word of WARNING:
You do NOT want to make the same mistake as me and buy it at the GIANT STORE at Toritsudaigaku.... I went there as the store was large and I wanted to actually have a look at the bike before buying. As they had it in stock, I ended up buying it.
However:
- had to haggle for them to include a longer seatpost
- pedals included are not folding, yet if you buy the bag you are meant to take off the pedals each time - well, i do not bother to be honest!
Well, I went to have a coffee near the station whilst they prepared the bike, then came back after 1 hour.
They then told me... uhuuu, different seatpost, warranty would be void if I use that.
Ok, well, I paid and left.
As I was jumping on the train first, I had the bike bagged up - unpacked it when I got to my home station and what did I find:
1) way to little air in tires, they had not bothered to fill them!
So I wanted to pump them up with the included GIANT pump, but it was broken already.
Sigh... so I pushed the bike home, pumped it up and then set out for a ride. But ups, what was that: Due to the suspension sag, the seatpost, even though at max was too low. And when I hit the brakes, the handlebars started moving... turns out the muppets at the GIANT store had forgotten to tighten the screws. Could have been a potentially dangerous situation.
The final straw: When I got to work the next day, I had a voicemail on my phone asking me to please come by and pay 500 yen which they had FORGOTTEN to charge me for the police registration - HAHA!
In the meantime, I just purchased a new seatpost and tightened all screws on my own!
So: a word of warning, do NOT buy at the GIANT store. Use them purely to look at the bikes, then buy elsewhere!
I find Azabu Cycle, Shirogane 3-2-4, Minato-ku, Tokyo pretty decent!
アザブサイクル 港区白金3-2-4
and maybe these smaller shops deserve our support?
Lesson learnt!
cheers
Kurt
Hi,
Just to add my two cents worth regarding follding bikes:
I just purchased a GIANT folding bike and the bag to go with it:
http://www.giant.co.jp/giant08/bike_datail.php?p_id=L1642099&action=outline
So far so good, though I had to change the seatpost (needed a longer one).
I think this bike is very good concept wise and seems well thought through.
However, a word of WARNING:
You do NOT want to make the same mistake as me and buy it at the GIANT STORE at Toritsudaigaku.... I went there as the store was large and I wanted to actually have a look at the bike before buying. As they had it in stock, I ended up buying it.
However:
- had to haggle for them to include a longer seatpost
- pedals included are not folding, yet if you buy the bag you are meant to take off the pedals each time - well, i do not bother to be honest!
Well, I went to have a coffee near the station whilst they prepared the bike, then came back after 1 hour.
They then told me... uhuuu, different seatpost, warranty would be void if I use that.
Ok, well, I paid and left.
As I was jumping on the train first, I had the bike bagged up - unpacked it when I got to my home station and what did I find:
1) way to little air in tires, they had not bothered to fill them!
So I wanted to pump them up with the included GIANT pump, but it was broken already.
Sigh... so I pushed the bike home, pumped it up and then set out for a ride. But ups, what was that: Due to the suspension sag, the seatpost, even though at max was too low. And when I hit the brakes, the handlebars started moving... turns out the muppets at the GIANT store had forgotten to tighten the screws. Could have been a potentially dangerous situation.
The final straw: When I got to work the next day, I had a voicemail on my phone asking me to please come by and pay 500 yen which they had FORGOTTEN to charge me for the police registration - HAHA!
In the meantime, I just purchased a new seatpost and tightened all screws on my own!
So: a word of warning, do NOT buy at the GIANT store. Use them purely to look at the bikes, then buy elsewhere!
I find Azabu Cycle, Shirogane 3-2-4, Minato-ku, Tokyo pretty decent!
アザブサイクル 港区白金3-2-4
and maybe these smaller shops deserve our support?
Lesson learnt!
cheers
Kurt