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| I am no bike expert, but given recent experience, I would emphasise the cost of repair or even simple servicing for what appears to be a low cost purchase can well outweigh the purchase costs.
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Well, this is the point most of you are missing.
A "Banhoff-velo" is a cheap bike, normally under 100 CHF, and usually around CHF 60.-
it is a disposable bike, so you can let it at the train station and don't care much if it got stolen.
If the bike breaks up and/or need new wheels or whatever, you don't go to a shop and pay a high price to repair it. You simply forget about it and get another.
That is the thing.
It is utterly stupid to get a disposable 50 CHF bike and then pay 160 CHF to repair it.