Originally Posted by
rocks in head
I'm pretty sure the whole thing is for sale a a lot... "Truck can be arranged".
Yeah, there's way more than 150. I don't think the person posting bothered to even do a quick estimate. I count 4 bikes per "layer", 5 "layers" deep per pallet. Then they're stacked, so maybe 300-350 bikes total. I don't think they were really disassembled... steer tube turned 90, handles rotated downward is all.
More picture forensics says dutch to me. Backward-facing kickstands, fenders, reflectors, front dyno lights, consistent handlebars, and no top tube / beefy downtube on the top bike in the foreground stack says this was a bulk purchase of dutch style bikes from somewhere in Europe. I have no idea what you'd do with them, there's not that much demand for dutch style bikes here in the D.C. area, or really anywhere that I'm aware of in the US.
By far the weirdest / most intriguing CL post in a while for me. If you had the space, time, and skill, you could buy them all, and flood the market with $50 bikes and still make a huge margin. I suppose that's what this "business" that's liquidating was going to do.
Get the price right and they would sell in a big city. But margins are tight if one wants to do a professional job tuning $50-$100 bikes. Scrapping a few. Cheap Alibaba tires and tubes.
One could also build a rental fleet. I bet one could rent a lot to college students $30 for sept-june or $10 per month. $5 a day except during big events.
Hit events like the Olympic trials hard.
Still, if it was me, I'd pack a container and ship to somewhere in Africa. 100 to 200 happy people riding bikes