Originally Posted by Sammyboy
I'd do that. I'll pick bikes out of the hedge even if I DON'T need the parts. They get stripped, anything worthwhile gets put in a box, and eventually, most of it comes out again and finds a use. I fixed up two bikes like that and gave them away over the last year.
+1 and I think the OP meant any more common and less expensive... well I do what sammy boy does... My girlfriend's dad brings me junk bikes from the dump etc.. some I strip and sell the frame (makes my girlfriend happy since her dad is providing me with a bit of cash which is put towards her bikes (which I buy))... sometime I strip the department store MTBs toss stuff in a box.. the rear cables can always be reused for the front on another bike and even if they are rusty I can shine them up with some emery paper and then run them through a greasy oily rag... now that is cheep salvaging.
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