Getting Ready For the Sale
Built up a few bikes, today, for the yard sale.
This is an Iverson ten-speed. I got it as a junk bike, with drop bars and down-tube shifters. I swapped bars and stem, threw on some tourist-style brake levers, friction thumb shifters, and new tires/tubes, then topped it off with gold metal-flake Schwinn grips and an Electra sprung saddle.
It is a lugged frame, but the rear dropouts are attached with the crimp/spot weld method that you see on old Huffy bikes. The alloy Bluemels fenders are probably worth more than the bike, itself. But, I love that green paint, and I think the bike will work well as a neighborhood cruiser.
I picked this Schwinn World Sport up for a guy who ended up finding another bike without telling me. In the old days, I would have converted this to a fixed gear or single speed. It has horizontal drops and a bolt-on rear wheel, so it would lend itself to conversion. As it is, I am trying to build bikes I can sell at yard-sale prices, so I just cleaned it and tuned it.
This little 53cm SOMA (no connection to the currently-available SOMA brand) came to me on a trade. Some cleaning and lubing, a few adjustments, and some bar tape got it ready to ride/sell.
I figure I'll mark the green bike at $100, and the other two at $50 each. That gives me room to bargain, and still get my labor time and parts cost back. As I said in my Craigslist ad, the "flippers" are going to love my sale. I have stuff priced so that someone could buy it and resell for a profit.
I think of it as Craigslist Wholesale...
I have a couple of mountain bikes to get ready, tomorrow. Then, I will be as ready as I will get for the yard sale.
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4 Comments:
I wish I could find yard sales like this around me.
I was kind of looking for a Phil Wood hub. 36 hole 100mm. Have anything like that in your yard sale? I definitely wanted good sealed bearings and I also went ahead and bought a 36 hole rim.
No Phil Wood. Sorry.
I think all of my nicer hubs are 32 hole, anyway.
Thanks for the effort. I am looking at a couple on ebay. I think I will find one sooner or later.
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