I'd guess 8-10 hours on that one, counting relacing the wheels. At the moment, we're rearranging the back space, and haven't set the sandblast booth back up. Really cuts the prep time down. As for overall return, we make more on the maintenance, though of course the single speed coaster brake ones rarely need more than flats fixed until they start rusting up again. (Though I think a flat fix ends up being our highest labor-charge-per-minute-spent repair.) This is more of a project to get stuff that would have been headed to the scrap yard back on the road; some just get fixed up, some rustier ones just get wire brushed and sprayed with whatever's at hand while they're already stripped down anyway, and some with character get actual thought put into them. If the price covers materials and some of my time, it's worth it to get somebody else on a bike. (And thus, of course, provide one more bike we'll be fixing from time to time.)[/QUOTE]

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only guy working for peanuts! I wouldn't ever even consider re-lacing wheels on a bike that cost $100 brand new. I would kill for a sandblast booth but alas no room for such a luxury. I regularly bring back the dead but there's a limit to the life I can provide. Bad ones get flat black and a cheap price tag. I like your shop I'd like to think if I opened a shop it would be alot like yours. This is what I'm talking about.