Originally Posted by
cycleheimer
I've gotten tires, tubes, cables, brake pads, reflectors and all types of stuff off of old Huffys, Murrays, and better bikes that had frame damage.
Yup - I even strip the clean ones rather than try to sell them. The wife took the dog for a walk last Monday night and came home with a Columbia dept store mtb that had been rolled out to the trash. I used the cables/housings, brake pads, and saddle for a Viscount I was overhauling, saved the bars, levers, headset and wheel bearings, and tossed the rest of the scrap in the recycle bin.
A fortuitous find - the Viscount really, really needed new brake pads and a saddle.