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Nepal’s first bicycle shop in Nepal,Kathmandu Jamal, Panchanarayan Astanaryan in Jamal, Kathmandu. ‘Since 1925’ reads the sign in front of Panc Bike in Jamal. The name of the store is a shortened form of ‘Panchanarayan Astanarayan’ the two early founders of the bicycle store. But the history of bicycling goes even further to 1903, when some Ranas imported bicycles from India and rode them inside their palaces for pleasure, recalls Tirth Narayan Manandhar, the son of Astanarayan in his book Kathmandu Then and Now.