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Don Wiss
Guest
So I took my Dahon Glide* to Sweden. It came over a day after I did and
somewhere on its two flights and two baggage handling services it got a bit
banged up. I was able to fix most of the things myself, but the front wheel
was hitting the brakes pads as it went around. As I lost one of my only two
full days on the island of Gotland, I decided I would open up the brake,
use the bike on my remaining full day, and get the wheel fixed in the
morning of my last day. I bused my bike on that full day to the smaller
island of Faro. I was eating lunch in Sundersand and I was telling the
waitress my bike story and she suggested the man nearby that fixed up her
bike. So when I got around to passing his place I stopped in. When I
explained I was just biking the island and was returning to Visby that
night, he agreed to fix it then. So I wandered off. After a half hour I
returned and found it fixed. He charged me 30 SEK. Now for those of you
that are not familiar with Swedish currency, that's $4.30 US. That made my
day.
* http://dahon.com/us/glidep8.htm
Don <www.donwiss.com/joyrides> (e-mail link at page bottom).
somewhere on its two flights and two baggage handling services it got a bit
banged up. I was able to fix most of the things myself, but the front wheel
was hitting the brakes pads as it went around. As I lost one of my only two
full days on the island of Gotland, I decided I would open up the brake,
use the bike on my remaining full day, and get the wheel fixed in the
morning of my last day. I bused my bike on that full day to the smaller
island of Faro. I was eating lunch in Sundersand and I was telling the
waitress my bike story and she suggested the man nearby that fixed up her
bike. So when I got around to passing his place I stopped in. When I
explained I was just biking the island and was returning to Visby that
night, he agreed to fix it then. So I wandered off. After a half hour I
returned and found it fixed. He charged me 30 SEK. Now for those of you
that are not familiar with Swedish currency, that's $4.30 US. That made my
day.
* http://dahon.com/us/glidep8.htm
Don <www.donwiss.com/joyrides> (e-mail link at page bottom).