I still have that "punched in the gut" feeling about what I experienced today and just gotta share it in an effort to relieve myself of the trauma. In the mood to pay triple what it'd be worth, I stopped by an old antique store today in a rural part of Maryland and inquired about any old bikes. The shop owner told me no but got my hopes way up when she said an old guy down the way used to collect a mess of bikes. She picked up the phone and called him, then put me on the phone with him. He gets me all wound up with stories of once having as many as 500 bikes but isn't into it anymore. Sold most of them over the years and parted out a bunch too. Since he mentioned parting out a bunch of them I figured I'd at least aim my efforts at obtaining an old frame or two from him. Nope! Here's the kick to the groin: He said he recently borrowed his son's truck and trailer and took about ONE HUNDRED old frames to the local salvage yard and sold them all for .18 (cents) per pound. :shock: Oooofff! Then he added that they were all crushed into a cube of twisted metal. And that's when I woke up to the old lady waving the smelly ammonia stick under my nose! (Kidding about the smelling salts but all the rest is true!) Dang, that's painful.
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booooooo the scrap yard.
Thanks bro for the story.Im gonna go tie a weight around my foot and jump in the river. 
i got the great lakes, i win. :lol: or would i lose from jumping in? oh well, hes goes nothing.. glub glub..
more like in plastic lol
That's disgusting!
I go to the scrap yard regularly and find what were really nice bikes but are now folded at a 90 degree angle. :x It's just a matter of time before any of us see a Krate all bent up!
I go to the scrap yard regularly and find what were really nice bikes but are now folded at a 90 degree angle. :x It's just a matter of time before any of us see a Krate all bent up!
I hear stories like this several times a year. Mostly from older guys who are tired of the hassle of selling bikes and dealing with scammers, lowballers, thieves and weirdos. :roll:
As I 'm sure you know, many choose to store old bikes in unlocked sheds and barns. People will answer an ad, never show up, and then bikes start "disappearing."
Several guys I talked to have had a bikes and parts stolen multiple times before throwing in the towel. In one theft, a guy lost 70+ NOS Diamond skip tooth chains.
This fall I talked to a guy who scrapped over 100 completes and uncountable parts and frames. Theft was his primary motivator. If I remember properly, he received less that $200 for the whole works!
As I 'm sure you know, many choose to store old bikes in unlocked sheds and barns. People will answer an ad, never show up, and then bikes start "disappearing."
Several guys I talked to have had a bikes and parts stolen multiple times before throwing in the towel. In one theft, a guy lost 70+ NOS Diamond skip tooth chains.
This fall I talked to a guy who scrapped over 100 completes and uncountable parts and frames. Theft was his primary motivator. If I remember properly, he received less that $200 for the whole works!
i was at the rockford swap meet this year when a guy walked up to one of my friends and offered him over 100 bikes. They went to look at the bikes and he was able to buy them. They had been stored outside for a very long time but in the pile were several tank schwinns, and a twin flex. Here is the BAD part of the story. The guy then told us he had scrapped over 500 bikes. He just did not know what to do with them. From the looks of what I saw, I would bet some VERY RARE stuff went to the scrapper. The truth is there are probably spots like this all over the place and you just have to find them before they get away.
I'm suprised no one has tryed to steal from my yard though, per year I seel Hundreds of old bicycles and I never lock any shed up lol and they are also allover my yard.
My yard may not be locked but it's watched, I set video cameras up and those lights that come on when movement comes lol then run out with a bat!
You can go into landfills? I don't think you can take from the ones here where I live. not sure why.
My yard may not be locked but it's watched, I set video cameras up and those lights that come on when movement comes lol then run out with a bat!
You can go into landfills? I don't think you can take from the ones here where I live. not sure why.
Alot of places wont let you take from the landfills because you would have all the scrapers,homeless people down there fighting over spots and liability of someone getting hurt sifting through the metal.You just cant do cool stuff anymore because of people that are so sue happy.Back when I was a kid,our landfill up north used to encourage people to take it because it would be less work for them to burry it.
They should sort everything out and send it off to areas then sell it dirt cheap. insted they are lazy.
A good example of wasting the tax payers money here is the New Green bin that was dropped off a month or so ago. For kitchen waste. will anyone really use that? all new trucks just to pick those up, they could of made it so trucks come and take metals away and recycle them, food will be fine in landfill lol metals can be reused
A good example of wasting the tax payers money here is the New Green bin that was dropped off a month or so ago. For kitchen waste. will anyone really use that? all new trucks just to pick those up, they could of made it so trucks come and take metals away and recycle them, food will be fine in landfill lol metals can be reused
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