+1 Well put. I have a big enough backlog of road bikes to rehab. Working on MTBs just consumes time, and nets very little. Much better off putting time into road bikes.

+1 There are a couple of niche bike exceptions. But it is rare to find one of them.


There are a lot of issues with rehabbing MTBs. First, there is minimal return for your time. That should be enough to stop the concept right there, except in some hot urban markets. Secondly, many MTB parts are different sizes than road bikes: cranks are usually small triples, shifters are different, bars, stems, wheels, tires,, tubes, brakes, and levers. OK, road bikes use a variety of parts, but road bikes move.

As long as I can find road bikes to work on, I am going to drop MTBs and hybrids. I picked up seven road bikes in the last week, and already had about 15 in the rehab queue, so it will be a while before I run out. I'll ease out the remaining MTBs in the market, some will probably go to the co-op, some to my favorite thrift store. I'm looking forward to getting some space around here!!