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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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Question about durability of a hardtail
How long a bike lasts is made up of a combination of many factors. Here are a few:
Frame designed and built quality
Component designed and build quality
How you ride
I'm sure there are others...
The ...
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Question about durability of a hardtail
Having a read over the description on the website looks to me like these are cross country bikes. Normally these sit in Category 3 but can't see anything specific on the site.
Category 3 can do some ...
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Clicking / cracking noise rotating crank MTB
That's an ominous sign you have a bearing going out or there is piece of debris (like a sand grain) that has infiltrated the bearings. Either situation can cause a bearing ball to "catch"--...
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Is it possible to have a 11-42 cassette with a 3x9 drivetrain?
My previous post was deleted. No, Criggie I didn't take it personally as i knew to begin with that this probably wasn't the place for this. I am however posting now as more of an answer. I got my 3 x ...
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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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Looking to put my 40-year-old mtn bike on a smart trainer
There's not an easy way of doing this that maintains easy interchangeability with your existing wheel and freewheel.
Bicycles with thru-axles didn't exist in the 80s. You have a quick release or ...
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Looking to put my 40-year-old mtn bike on a smart trainer
You might have some luck fitting a 7 or 8 speed cassette to your trainer.
This is because 6-7-8 speed chain is all very similar in width, and every time an additional gear is added, the cassette gets ...
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Looking to put my 40-year-old mtn bike on a smart trainer
I mostly know just know 6-speed freewheels. Those obviously cannot be used on a cassette-hub trainer.
There are some old 6-speed Uniglide cassettes and they used a different kind of hub and will most ...
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