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Buying Bikes

Thanks for your input - it sounds like there's a nice selection there and it might be easier to buy one once we get there instead of now :) Thanks!!

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Buying Bikes
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Hey ya'll! I was just wondering how easy it is to find nice bikes to buy in Oki - or if we should buy them stateside and ship them with our goods?

Started this discussion. Last reply by Liza Dec 3.

What can I take and what not

So is the consensus that it depends on your movers what they'll pack and send over for you?

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Should we bring a car?

hehe, no worries, I have definitely done that before!!

Tagged: cars

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There are even some Bike websites that will ship APO, if you don't happen to find the bike you're looking for. But there are a ton of bike shops around here. :)
December 3
Thanks for your input - it sounds like there's a nice selection there and it might be easier to buy one once we get there instead of now :) Thanks!!
December 2
have you checked Sports Depo? That have a few good ones there...Giants, Bianchi's, etc...
November 24
They sell bikes all over the place here. New ones and used. It just depends on how much you want to spend. They sell them in Jusco, in Toys R Us, probably in the sporting goods stores. I see hole in the wall bicycle shops with used bikes lining the…
November 24
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Hey ya'll! I was just wondering how easy it is to find nice bikes to buy in Oki - or if we should buy them stateside and ship them with our goods?
November 24
So is the consensus that it depends on your movers what they'll pack and send over for you?
November 23
hehe, no worries, I have definitely done that before!!
November 23
Thank you everyone for your wonderful advice! We are definitely going to leave both cars...possibly sell one - who knows :)
November 23
I just wrote under my husbands account....so it's Toni writing and not Matt! :)
November 23
I just got here 3 weeks ago and YES...it's hard to know answers when you are in the states. I think it's easier to just buy a car here. I just got a super cute one for $1500, so you don't have to spend $1000s. I thought at first that we could just w…
November 23
Thank you for everyone's response. I appreciate it. Yes, on the Stateside, we don't receive straight answers so your responses are really, really so helpful! :)
November 21
the story I was given was this - "per the SOFA, you are not allowed to bring a car over unless you pay a significant amount of money to "import" your vehicle to Okinawa" -- one of the biggest problems the locals have had over the years is americans…
November 21
It has nothing to do with branch, it's the Japanese laws that won't allow it.
November 21
Ok, I wasn't implying rules should be bent with AF, I just didn't know if the rules were the same in every branch. I heard otherwise. I didn't mean to offend you.
November 21
what??? even for air force we cannot bring our cars without the military paying? wow. please tell me this isn't the case.
November 21
November 8

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I am on my way to Okinawa
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My husband is a 2nd Lt. in the Marine Corps and we have been married 4 years. We have a 3 year old son Maximus and a 17 month old son Colton. My husband Nic is finishing up TBS, then its CA for a couple months before we come out to Okinawa! We can't wait!!
How did you find us?
A friend who is also heading to Okinawa sent me the link.

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