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Old 03-12-18, 05:00 AM
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FlMTNdude
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Originally Posted by Dave Mayer
I volunteer weekly at my local Co-op. Do not donate your old chains. While I'm not around, some misguided client will install and try to use that old chain. They will then suffer for several days of frustration with poor shifting and cog jumping. Then I'll be faced with 30 minutes of explaining the problem and ultimately installing a new chain.

Similar scenario: a local downtown homeless shelter calls and says they have 10 'leftover' bikes to donate, but we have to pick them up. Right - thanks but no thanks. Why should we waste our resources picking their crap up only to then have to make an hour-long beeline straight to the dump?
Here in Gainesville Florida if someone asked to come to the homeless shelter to pick up, would be down in a heartbeat. I see everything from junker WalMart bikes to decent Treks and name brands. Somewhere would be a couple. But then, we do have the homeless camp with a near new Mercedes which is parked by one of the tents.
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