Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Have decided it's time to do some exercise!

Does anyone know where I can buy an exercise bike, can't remember ever seeing any for sale anywhere!

Girne or Lefkosa don't mind.

There's a place in Karakum on the other side of the road to Lemar go past Lemar heading towards Catalkoy there's a restaurant called Alestas and on the corner before the restaurant there's a shop that sells exercise stuff like treadmills, they may have exercise bikes.
Paula

There is a place in Lefkosa that sells exercise equipment and of a good quality. I can't remember the name but I can give you directions:

Go to Lefkosa and turn left onto the Famagusta Road, go up to the 3rd set of lights and turn right, follow this road straignt over the first roundabout (you will pass Cangar Motors around here ) and down to the 2nd roundabout. Turn right at this roundabout, when you turn right you will see the bus station on the corner (providing it hasn't moved).

Turn left, now I can't remember whether it is the 1st or the 2nd but there is a small supermarket called Belca on the corner, you will find the shop approx 50 metres up on the left side.

They will deliver and offer servicing, in fact even 3 years after we had bought our equipment we still had calls offering a service to our running machine.

Thanks both of you, will have a look at the weekend.

I once bought an exercise bike as one of my(many) new years resolutions to get fit.

I paid a fortune for the best one I could find(Manthing!)thinking ,wrongly as it turned out,that spending more would somehow make me fitter-it had a digital display and all the bells and whistles(to be fair,It neither had a bell, nor a whistle-although I did think a bell was compulsory on a bicycle?).

Well, the first time I used it, I was pedalling so hard that there was smoke coming off the pedals.

After 5 minutes of this and a stabbing pain in my chest I realised that an exercise bike is the fitness equivalent of a blow-up lady(i.e. unsatisfying and not like the real thing)

I was getting all the pain of real cycling:sore thighs, sweaty armpits, and arse cleft discomfort on a major scale

What I was not getting was the whole changing scenery thing or having to avoid Polish Truck drivers on a mission to kill you that makes proper cycling what it is.

In conclusion may I suggest you buy a proper bike and fully enjoy the beautiful local scenery,fly tipping , poor roads ,and enthusiastic but unskilled local drivers which makes the TRNC what it is.

As a postscript I gave the aforesaid super deluxe exercise bike to a similar fatty after it had stood dormant in my garage for several years.

I think the date was Jan 2nd.