Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!Q.T.Honey!komachi.sp.cs.cmu.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: For Eric (and others in Hiroshima) Date: 28 Jun 2003 09:50:05 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 26 Message-ID: <73fde4f0.0306280850.551e0351@posting.google.com> References: <73fde4f0.0306171342.513bc64b@posting.google.com> <3EF046AA.E6F3E4A5@yahoo.co.jp> <73fde4f0.0306180924.57f0c76f@posting.google.com> <3EFD6984.27B0E574@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.191.250.22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1056819006 28772 127.0.0.1 (28 Jun 2003 16:50:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jun 2003 16:50:06 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:1589 Eric Takabayashi wrote in message news:<3EFD6984.27B0E574@yahoo.co.jp>... > Ed wrote: > > > "John W." wrote in message > > news:73fde4f0.0306180924.57f0c76f@posting.google.com... > > > > > I'm certain this has been touched on before, but what do they do with > > > all those bikes? Recycle? I'm certain some (small) percentage get > > > reclaimed, but do they have police auctions of unclaimed bikes? > > > > Sometimes it's the only way to get rid of your old mama-chari. Where I live, > > they charge you about 3,000 yen to throw a bicycle away. > > If it is at all decent, sell your bike at a secondhand shop. I once recovered > my stolen mountain bike months later, taken from a rice irrigation canal. It > was all rusted out, including the cables, and covered with mud and dead > leaves. > They gave me 3,000 yen cash for it, and tried to sell it for 6,000, as was > that shop's norm with used bikes. They didn't even bother to clean it up or >fix it. > I had good luck trading off to other gaijin. One guy bought my mountain bike at a good price, another my mama chari, which I had acquired the same way. John W.