Using Twitter and Facebook to score bikes

[yoothgeye]

I'm hoping all of you already do this.

If you have a Facebook account (which most of you probably do, my mom does), that's where you keep all your friends and people you grew up with. Like me, it's possible you've moved a time or two, so you have friends from where you are now, where you were before, and your hometown.

I Tweet, I have my Twitter account linked to my Facebook, so when I Tweet, it goes to my Twitter followers on their pages and phones, and it posts on my Facebook wall, all I do is send a text from my phone.

So, whenever I'm heading out of town to visit the folks, or passing through a town I use to live in, I will Tweet something to this effect:

"Going to be in Colonial Heights visiting my parents today and tomorrow, have space to bring any unloved bikes home with me."

or

"Passing through Williamston/Plymouth on the way to the beach, got any bikes for me? Call me."

This is getting great results for me, so thought I would pass it along in case some of you haven't already tried. It's also been a way to reconnect with some long lost friends... just because they are your "friend" on facebook doesn't mean you still know them.

 

[yoothgeye]

Just worked again, I was just offered 2 more bikes on facebook from someone who had read a past note about me looking for bikes. Next time I go see my folks I'll pick them up.

If you've always collected bikes then your friends already know (and you probably already got ll their junk bikes), for those of us who have only recently gotten into the hobby, it puts it out there that you are into it and the bikes could come pouring in.

 

[nelvolks]

I just need more room to make this happen. Wifey will not allow me to have any more in this little apartment we have.

 

[yoothgeye]

The 2 bikes I brought home today thanks to facebook and a trip to my folks house an hour away were an old Scwhinn High Sierra mountain bike with a lot of cool parts on it and a newer Ross mountain bike, aluminum frame, front Marzocchi shock and high end components, both mens frames.

 

[nelvolks]

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