Originally Posted by
tugrul
The type of market that can support that activity is completely foreign to me.
Drive 40 minutes south...
I flipped pretty heavily for a summer but very quickly got tired of it. Once I had a few nice bikes of my own, I lost interest in flipping. I plan to start doing fewer, higher end flips though from now on.
I have a barn full of clunker 10 speeds, a dozen or so in varying condition, at my parents' as these are the types of bikes I was flipping two summers ago to college students in Boston. I don't even have the motivation to put a new chain and bar tape on them at this point even though I can get $150+ a pop in the spring. I think at some point I'll advertise the whole lot for a couple hundred bucks for one of the other Boston flippers to take over. I hate working on those kind of bikes (steel wheels/components, cp brakes, clamp on derailleurs...etc).