Originally Posted by
Thumpic
I was coming home from work one day and saw a cute girl on a cool old MTB. All these bells started going off in my head. I caught her at light and realized that I had sold her the Raleigh she was riding a couple of years ago. She told me that the bike was great and except for one flat; she had not had a single issue with it. She rode it daily for school and work. I was humbled that my little self supporting hobby was actually having an important and positive impact on her life.
Kind'a cool... This is the bike I sold her.
This happened to me in October, I've been fixing up and overhauling bikes for a little bit now. I sold about 50 ish this year. Every once in a while I get a nice email from a person that bought a bike off of me telling ms how awesome the bike has been and that they love it dearly. It definitely makes me feel good knowing that they're really happy with what I sold them. I don't usually hear from about 50% of them but I figure no news is good news!! I've never had a bad complaint yet so I figure I'm doing something right
For the first time about a couple months ago I saw a bike I sold being used in it's natural habitat. It's kinda funny cause I saw him ride by and I was like, I sold him that bike!
As far as limits go, at the moment I have 4 keepers that all do the same functions. But About 25 other bikes that are waiting for work.
I don't think there's such thing as a round number for keepers, I say if u have the space and money then who cares, the bikes will probably be better in your hands then other peoples