Karachi bikers and the trends

Young people and children, some so small they are barely able to walk, are the favourite customers at Karachi’s cycle market, but shopkeepers complain few young buyers came during the just-ended summer vacations due to the greater security problems in the city this year.

The main business months at the cycle market at Gari Khata, opposite the ‘Light House’ market for old clothes, are from May to August. icycles have a comparatively limited market to start with, since ‘you buy a bicycle only once or twice in a lifetime; it is not a routine mode of transport or sport product,’ said Haji Mirwais Khan, the former president of the market…