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14 "Trashed" bikes acquired for free. Worth repairing and reselling? What do I look for?
This looks like VelAfrica project. They collect old unneeded bicycles in diverse condition and somehow combine them into the less number of usable bicycles. They would even take small children ...
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14 "Trashed" bikes acquired for free. Worth repairing and reselling? What do I look for?
Speaking as one who has fixed many old cheap bikes as part of a ministry (free labor by the grace of God: parts at minimal cost) in a low income city, then I would say that most all of these old ...
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14 "Trashed" bikes acquired for free. Worth repairing and reselling? What do I look for?
I'll note here that in many areas there are groups that refurbish used bikes and donate them to groups which in turn give them to disadvantaged people. I was in a group like this until about 2 years ...
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14 "Trashed" bikes acquired for free. Worth repairing and reselling? What do I look for?
What should I look for? How bad/ fixable is rust? How can I best
determine what is worth repairing and what should be trashed?
When you evaluate a bike you are really getting enough information to ...
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14 "Trashed" bikes acquired for free. Worth repairing and reselling? What do I look for?
This is pretty much how I started.
First of all:
If the bikes are cheap-ish with cheap-ish components, you will never even make a minimum wage. But that need not stop you. First, on a cheap bike if ...
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14 "Trashed" bikes acquired for free. Worth repairing and reselling? What do I look for?
The question really is how long it takes you to dismantle and repair them and in what condition they are.
If it only takes you 5 minutes to swap a good saddle from a donor bike to a bike which is – ...
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14 "Trashed" bikes acquired for free. Worth repairing and reselling? What do I look for?
From having maintained cheap bikes using other bikes as parts donors, even dismantling some to provide parts for others you're likely to need to buy some bits like chains and cables. They're cheap but ...
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Can I replace hood covers on Shimano ST-2300 brake/gear levers?
The hoods are one of the under-appreciated wear parts on your bike. Consider that they're polymers, which are known to eventually degrade, in part due to exposure to ultraviolet light. I recently ...
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Can I replace hood covers on Shimano ST-2300 brake/gear levers?
I appreciate that this post is very old now but for those still searching here is an update. It is just about impossible getting the ST-2300 hoods. However ST-A070/A073 hoods fit perfectly (Shimano ...
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