I had to come here for work for two weeks. You’ll be thinking I’m a real jetsetter with all these journeys abroad, but honestly I’m not, and I was worried it’d really upset my training schedule.Work offered to hire a bike for me if it didn’t cost "too much", so I phoned GlenBrook cycles and got prices.
1 day - $40,
one week - $150,
two weeks - $300.
Apparently, because the car rental costs less than half that amount, $300 falls into the “too much” category.
The dude in the shop (I’m going all American after only a week here) said I’d be far wiser to buy a bike for $300 and dump it when I’m done, so I came planning to do something like that – maybe find a second hand one or something.People here are really nice; especially when you consider that they’re training us up so that we can take their jobs from them.
When I got here, Sheri, with whom I’m working, phoned her husband and said
“Is yower baiyke ay maowntayne baiyke?!” Apparently his response implied that he believed his cycle would meet my requirements and she brought it into work the next day.It’s a mountain bike only in the very loosest sense of the word, probably cost about $70 when it was new, but it’s not costing me anything, and it’s well set up and it’s been well maintained (read “never used”)I should have taken a picture of it, but I didn't, so here's a photo of the bikes that are dotted round the company for people to use when travelling between buildings.
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