The Bike

I vaguely remember researching cheap bikes in Japan a month or two ago. Scratch whatever I wrote then. I found a local bike shop with many used bikes for sale, but the shop keeper is ill and hasn’t been in for over 3 weeks now. Two days ago on Saturday Kat, Tom, Tatsu and me went to Choufu. While Tatsu and Kat were figuring out places to withdraw money from foreign bank accounts, Tom and I went to the bike shop and found the bikes of our dreams. The price was I think 10,900 yen for the bike and 1,500 yen for police registration (in case it gets lost). It was a rather impulsive buy, but ended up being only 1,000 yen over what I intended to spend. Tom got it in silver, I got it in wine red and Kat, rushing to buy one after she had found out we did, got hers in purple. Observe my new bike (and its owner) in all its glory:

Strahlemann hinterm Rad

My plan at the moment is reselling it when next semester begins and new arrivals are in need of a bike. By then I will have registered to rent a bike from TUFS for my remaining stay for about 1,000 yen.