Originally Posted by
3alarmer
...there are literally thousands of good used bicycles on the Craigslist here in California, selling for ridiculously low prices.
Unless you have something special to you, bringing it along is probably a bad idea, and the college campuses here get hit pretty hard by bicycle thieves.
Honestly, if you've not seen the abundance of used bikes available here, you'll find it hard to believe.
Hi,Thanks for sharing that information and the suggestion!
yes, there seem to be plenty of bikes (at sfbay.craigslist.org/search/bia) but are reasonably expensive relative to my purchasing power. I had a good condition MTB here and am worried that having to buy one of similar specs (even a used one) would be expensive there (seems $100+). My campus has a separate storage facility for bikes so it's pretty safe there. As of now, looks like Qatar airlines will let me have this as one of the allowed check-in baggage. but, i'll rethink this based on this new information about Craigslist lists....