Found Behind LBS

[yoothgeye]

Nothing special, but I was excited.

Cody and I went out alley riding last night looking for whatever, I told him to go down the alley behind the bike shop, I'd never seen anything there, but I was going to dive into their curbside trash can. We arrived and there was a Haro bicycle shipping box. Ratrod and others talking about finding good bike boxed had been having me wanting one (thinking about selling a road bike on eBay), so I was pretty excited.

I opened up the trash can and looked in, first thing I found was a September 2011 Bicycle Retailer and Industry News magazine still in the plastic unopened and with it was a Interbike event guide for the expo that already happened, but still cool. Pretty cool.

As I was digging through the trash Cody was removing the tape from the bike box and says "Check this out." It was full of old tubes, about 20 tubes, mostly 26", some 700, 20"s, and 16"s. Cool! As we dug in the box we found a perfectly good Vetta saddle, some chain, valve caps (schrader and presta), a new right 1/2" pedal, and a new left 9/16" pedal.

We brought the box with goodies home, threw away about 5-6 tubes, found out that about 7 hold air, and have another 7 with just pinhole leaks that are easily patched, this is great because of the bikes we fix up for kids, it's nice to have usable tubes around.

Sorry, no photos, you can just use your imagination.

 

[schwinnmesa]

Wow, that is awesome! Score!!

 

[kingfish254]

SCORE!

 

[SCHWINNRAY69]

Way to go! :mrgreen:

 

[mattyfu]

There is a store here (mountain equipment co-op) that has a bike tire and tube recycling cage where people just chuck their old tires and tubes in....and other people ride up to and pick through for ones that still have some life left in them, you have to pull them through a chainlink fence but it's pretty easy for anything but the fatest of mtn tires. It's amazing how many people, even people who ride fairly regularly just buy new tubes when they get a puncture.

 

[yoothgeye]

There is a store here (mountain equipment co-op) that has a bike tire and tube recycling cage where people just chuck their old tires and tubes in....and other people ride up to and pick through for ones that still have some life left in them, you have to pull them through a chainlink fence but it's pretty easy for anything but the fatest of mtn tires. It's amazing how many people, even people who ride fairly regularly just buy new tubes when they get a puncture.

I think it's really cool that you live in a place where that works. Around here if you say "Free, take what you need" the first person will take all of it and sell it somewhere else. :x

 

[scott brownsey]

cool we dont even have abike shop around me we have walmart or k mart bout it :roll:

 

[yoothgeye]

cool we dont even have abike shop around me we have walmart or k mart bout it :roll:

If you've read anything from me before, we just barely have a bike shop. The guy who started the shop died last year, he was into bikes, but the guys left to run it now don't care for bikes at all as far as I can see. The guy who passed away also ran his chimney sweep shop out of the bike shop, and that is mainly what they do now. There are a couple used bikes in the shop and some old stock (nothing exciting and very little). They don't order any new inventory for the shop, they only order something if someone needs it. The only reason the shop is still open is because of the chimney sweep business. The shop is only open when you find someone there, which is not often, haha. I like the guys who work there, but the shop was dying before the owner, people around here just buy Walmart bikes and they couldn't compete, they still do repairs/tune ups, but that is second fiddle to the chimney sweeping, that's where the money is for them.