Looking for a bike? Try the Poliisi

In my search for a cheap and good bike I have been looking at different options. They have been from random people with fliers in the student buildings, to Huuto (the Finnish version of Ebay), to others like the repaired bikes at Aurinkotehdas. I have even considered buying from Amazon.co.uk, where I actually asked the Finnish customs officials at Tulli if I would have to pay additional import taxes (the answer to that was no).

However, later I found out that the Police Stations all over Finland organize auctions (huutokauppa) in order to get rid of different items that are either confiscated or lost and never reclaimed. The biggest of those auctions is the bike sales.

Finnish is not hard its just different

"If you declare yourself lost before you fight you are bound to failure"

In the time that I have been here (over one year), I have been studying the finnish language. Many things are said about the language on the web. One of the things for instance being that it is the hardest (or one of the hardest) languages to learn in the world. I find this statement difficult to believe given that people who speak all the languages are hard to find.

I have to admit in any case, that the Finnish language has not been te easiest for me.