What do you do with junk bikes

[outskirtscustoms]

What do you guys do with bikes that just won't sell. I have done everything from parting them out to using the frames for tire hangers, give them away, yard art, or an excuse to go to the scrapyard and look for other bikes. Just curious to see what other creative solutions you have come up with.

 

[yoothgeye]

Once I've gotten everything I want off of them I just throw them in a pile in the alley and the local scrap guys usually find them before trash pick up day. Sometimes I actually contact local scrap guys so I can know who is out in the alley behind my house picking them up. Nothing creative there.

 

[kingfish254]

I just ad them to my dad's metal scrap pile and he eventually takes them to the metal scrap yard.

 

[Sinner4]

Im getting tired of the Junk Bikes, ie: NEXT, Roadmaster. They are so torn up, they become parts and scrap metal. Some of the older diamond frames, they might get rebuilt or cut up and rewelded to a Tall bike or some other cut up bike.

I save the scrap for the scrappers, and in return the scrapers find whole bikes for me to buy or trade.

It keeps me busy.

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Im getting tired of the Junk Bikes, ie: NEXT, Roadmaster. They are so torn up, they become parts and scrap metal. Some of the older diamond frames, they might get rebuilt or cut up and rewelded to a Tall bike or some other cut up bike.

I save the scrap for the scrappers, and in return the scrapers find whole bikes for me to buy or trade.

It keeps me busy.

Amen to that, I used to save them from the scrap pile but now (after loosing money more times than I care to count) I check the brake and gear cables and all before I buy them and if it needs more than a tires and tubes it stays there unless I NEED the parts.

 

[Sinner4]

And the older Huffy MTB. Not to much to recycle on them. Once in a while you'll find a 3 piece crank on a American BB to convert a old school bike.

 

[mikeeebikey]

And the older Huffy MTB. Not to much to recycle on them. Once in a while you'll find a 3 piece crank on a American BB to convert a old school bike.

and a fork, if you are just pimping a pos beach bike the 1" threaded shock fork isn't bad on my beer Kaluna. And I am looking for a conversion BB and 3 piecers.....

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Also if you're lucky enough to find one some of the early next and mongoose bikes had triple tree forks with suspension.

 

[dragnusa]

When I get junk bikes it really comes down to what it looks like and how long it will take me to fix whats wrong with it, normally if its not all rusted up ( which in missouri takes one winter sitting outside) I will try flipping them to someone cheap just to get someone back on a bike. the rest get stripped and sent to the scrap pile.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Junk bikes I have usually get taken back to the scrap metal guy I get them off, if they had a 3 piece bottom bracket that will be cut out and kept along with the forks/headstem, maybe the bars if they have some nice curves I can use, there isnt much that goes back to him, some short frame tubes, the occasional rim, anything aluminium...

I build my bikes from the stuff most bike guys would throw away! :mrgreen:

Luke.

 

[B607]

Junk metal to the salvage yard...where I usually find more junk metal to bring home. :roll: Gary