Bikes for an 8yo + 5yo - Frog, Isla, Early Rider, Woom, etc - needs posting to Sweden

Both kids needs new bikes this spring but everything is sold out everywhere. Really hard to find decent bikes on the 2nd hand market over here so thought I'd check here.

After something mtb-y for an 8yo and something sturdy for a 5yo. Doesn't need to be spectacular but something along the two Frog bikes they've grown out would be ace.

Downside is they need posting to Sweden. Upside is I'll pay you a good price and I'll sort out insured shipping etc from here + anything else to help making the trade as easy as possible

More than happy to post you Swedish contraband in reverse as a thank you

I’ve just moved to Sweden and been finding it hard to get a bike. They are so expensive here and even second hand they seem to hold their price pretty high.

Completely missed this!

Totally agree with you. We had a bit of luck and got an Early Rider for our youngest this weekend and found an unloved Scott Scale for the oldest. Needs quite a bit of work but will be good once we've sorted it out.

How old are your kids? I've got a Frog 48 for sale now, gonna post it on here to keep it on the forum, but happy to give you first dibs

I’ve just moved to Sweden

Woah! It’s done! Hope things are working out nicely dude.

Yeah good thanks Skulls! Complicated thanks to COVID and brexit - but I’m a lucky boy.

Bikeless at present though. Need to get that sorted Asap!

Hey dude - no kids - just talking generally about bike prices.

Where in swede ville are you?

Bike prices are weird here. I'm heading south to pick up a mtb I found on happyride.se. First decently priced bike I've seen in ages

In general people seem to want a lot of their money back when selling. Tbh I'm not sure they get it, maybe there's a lot of bartering happening but I'm not sure. I've seen road bikes that are 4/5/6 years old sell for 80% of their new price which is just silly.

My last bike I got on UK ebay, made much more sense to have it shipped over. Had to take it via a friend in London though, but still worth the hassle considering the money I saved.

Also don't think blocket.se is the best place to look, even though it's default. Marketplace or forums seems better. Happyride.se is generally good and friendly.

We're in the south east, out in the sticks 30 mins north of Kalmar. Where are you?

Let me know if there's anything I can help out with Sweden wise. From what I gather it's a bit of a mission to get in to all the systems. It took me almost 18 months to get money for my parental leave when we moved back from London, and then I'm already Swedish!

Thanks @kboy super generous.

Im in Goteborg- great lil city though wish I was more in the sticks TBH

Ive been scouring Happyride, Blocket and Facebook. You are so right - seems like people want at least 80% back on well used machines. I was wondering about the bartering and haggling... maybe I should try.

I am also after a gravel machine - which seems to be becoming increasingly popular in sweden at the mo.

yeah - systems are fiddly - migration process has been tricky as joining my partner out her who is studying. They are suggesting its gonna take a year to process my application!

Nice job on getting a decent MTB. I was planning on getting mine shipped here, just worried about import duties and also post-brexit messiness with ports etc.

Have you bought much in the EU and had it shipped into Sweden? I was wondering if I should get something in Germany. Do you know if we would then pay Swedish VAT on imports?

Maybe a ride one day in the summer - wanting to explore that coast and the island!