I just purged

[Hooch]

wow i have a tendency to get alot of bikes piled up. and it can get overwhelming. saving every part and piece incase its needed in the future or having about 3 zillion ideas in my head as how to build this frame and that frame and today.......... I purged
man it feels GREAT!
usually when I take stuff to the recylcing center it goes on a pile and I rethink all the stuff I tossed today was different!
I watched it all crushed as soon as it left my hand! it was like a huge burden lifted from me!
3 pickup loads stacked 6 ft high! maybe 50 bikes!
wheels... wheels and more wheels..... mind you this stuff wasn't good ballooner stuff but mostly department store stuff and about 20 schwinn lightweights that had been scrounged off for years.
I feel so good I might go see if I can even fill up one more load yet today!

 

[user 135]

Where is the video?

 

[maddogrider]

Ya know once you start it might be hard to stop before you know it you will only have 1 or 2 hundred bikes left :mrgreen:

 

[Rat Rod]

All on Earth Day too. :lol:

 

[Hooch]

I would call it "Sanity Day"
no video I didnt have my camera it would never fail somebody would say... "I cant believe you threw that away!"
I didnt know the crusher would be there it was just a luck of the draw.
with the economy tight nobody wants to pay anything for parts ( I dont blame them) and it isnt worth the effort to find boxes and ship stuff for nothing. I still have a storage unit and shed to go thru so it will be a few more loads.....

 

[HutchXL24]

I did a major purge when I was 25. I mean, I sold or junked everything. I then went to Florida for 2 weeks and came back to an empty apartment. It was pure freedom. Fast forward to today. I have way too much crap and never enough time to sell or restore. Ahhh, to be free of stuff...

Good on you for breaking the chains. Keep it up...but don't throw away any old BMX stuff I might want.

 

[Hooch]

I never find any old bmx stuff
I think all the good stuff was around major cities back in the day as it took so long to filter out to my rural area.
either that or we were just to hard on the stuff and destroyed it! I rarely find any Stingray stuff either

 

[Rat Rod]

Someone had a great bumper sticker on their car at the bike show on Sunday...

"THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE AREN'T THINGS"

 

[bikesntrikes]

I did a similar thing a year or two ago, but with an old Panel truck. I bought it for parts and then scrapped it. Got half of my purchase price refunded by scrapping it.

No video, but in good sequence.

 

[skoda]

You should stuff a few bikes somewhere really weird and know someone will find them one day 30 years from now and be puzzeld and delighted.

 

[user 135]

I found the video :mrgreen: http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/bicycles.htm

 

[rgallen]

Bikesntrikes:

I did a similar thing a year or two ago, but with an old Panel truck. I bought it for parts and then scrapped it. Got half of my purchase price refunded by scrapping it.

They looked like some pretty rust free rear doors on that old panel. If so, you probably didn't get a good deal. They would easily go for $800.00 a pair. Even one of the quarter panels with minimal rust would bring around $450.00. But what the heck, when you get tired of it being in the way it's gotta go. I've done a lot of that before.

 

[bikesntrikes]

Bikesntrikes:

I did a similar thing a year or two ago, but with an old Panel truck. I bought it for parts and then scrapped it. Got half of my purchase price refunded by scrapping it.

They looked like some pretty rust free rear doors on that old panel. If so, you probably didn't get a good deal. They would easily go for $800.00 a pair. Even one of the quarter panels with minimal rust would bring around $450.00. But what the heck, when you get tired of it being in the way it's gotta go. I've done a lot of that before.

The rear doors were shot. The hinges barely hung on. I have two Panel trucks, one is a 51 and the other a 52. The 51 needed rear doors. It took one Panel truck (not this one) to donate that right rear door and I just found a good left rear door in SoCal for $75.

The quarters on this scrapped Panel, as well as the entire body, was rusted through at every seam. The Panel almost fell onto my trailer when the crane operator grabbed it. I took every useable part from that truck. I even cut the top halves of the front doors and sold them to a guy that was doing a top chop.

I bought the truck for $200. Got $90 back after scrapping it and about $1200 or so from parting it out. Just sold the fuel tank on eBay for $300. :mrgreen:

 

[crackedpiston]

mind you this stuff wasn't good ballooner stuff but mostly department store stuff and about 20 schwinn lightweights that had been scrounged off for years.

Maaaaannnnnnn..... Talk about spoilt for choice! Here we are in the antipodes, screaming for anything that isn't a Malvern Star mountain bike or a Huffy BMX, and there's you blokes throwin' Schwinn frames into the garbage!!! :x Just to let you know, most your generic department store stuff is basically unobtainable over here, so, mate, next time let me know and I'll have a container dropped in your front yard. :mrgreen:

 

[roadmaster]

i did this about 6 years ago myself, when i lost the passion and went down another dark road that i finally survived from a few years ago. i love having the extra space and if it wasn't cool cruiser stuff, thats cool, bu ti have had a few instances since that there are things i let go that i wish i had today, including a cool old western flyer step thru/girls cruiser frame with these huge cool rear dropouts and a handfull of cruiser rims i wish i had. and with my luck, id be into 3speeds an dtrow out old cruiser stuff, to be into cruisers a few months later and be in regret. oh, so is life.

 

[ish]

Throwing a Schwinn lightweight frame into the garbage is sacrilege where I live. Portland hipsters use them to build fixies and tallbikes.

 

[Hooch]

last week I hauled another load mainly small pieces

I bet I tossed 100 pedals 50 cranks 30 sprockets 50 pairs of handlebars 20 frames 50 wheels and 6 5 gallon buckets of bearings brakes ect!
at this time I have 3 bikes and about 20 total extra parts!
wow its crazy hahaha

 

[schwinnmesa]

I really hate this topic & everything in it. The pictures, videos, the content...

I'm hitting the back button and going back to Fresh Finds. :wink: