Tomato time, couldn't let this one pass, I'm a Homegrown fan.

2000 Schwinn anodized frame, all the things I don't favor black, hubs, spokes, seat post, handlebars, combo brake shifter pods, color rims, color tires... xt pods cranks and fd, rd xtr, Avid brakes, hubs Hugi, mavic rims,Judy SID fork, titec stem bars and seat post. This looks to be stock minus the saddle.

With the saddle on it now makes me think someone thought they bought it as a comfort cruiser, and then barely used it. This was covered with dirt and had flat tires, no build or rebuilding needed on this one just clean up, and very minor rust on some Allen bolts.

Nice stuff! :thumb: I had no idea Schwinn put anything out with that caliber of kit in 2000. Those Titec bars are pretty legit. Great catch!

Oh my! I like the idea of building bikes and donating to a coop or through a church or charity. If you find any vintage 531 steel Trek frame in 21-23 inch that you don't want I know I would love a chance to buy.

I wish we had bike coops here, until I signed up here I never heard of them. Around here bikes get trashed or end up in a hoarders pile somewhere I guess.
I suppose more than three quarters of the lot is 'undesirable' parts. I don't see much of a market for Columbia 10 speeds and cheap Japanese bikes from the 70's. We used to have a few guys that gathered parts and built bikes to give to kids who didn't have a bike but I haven't seen anyone like that around in 10 or more years. The local police auctions are usually loaded with bikes like this or worse too.

I found a few more new old stock wheelsets today I missed in the pile last night, and a few boxes of nos derailleurs, axles, and bar tape. Lots of pink and mustard brown bar tape too. The guy had to be buying in bulk from a wholesaler at some point, a lot of the boxes are from Joannou Cycle in NY. The cabinets seem to be where the gold is, lots of hard to find bolts and brackets. (Plus bags of Cat Eye brand plastic reflectors and brake bolt brackets, along with wheel reflectors and cheap helmets, the kind that are just white polystyrene with a glossy shell and chin strap. several of the large tubs which were pretty heavy turned out to have cranksets in them, complete SR cranksets, scripted in various manufacturers names. Lots of Raleigh, Motobecane, and a few first generation Shimano 600. sets along with a few dozen new old stock hubs, both Normandy and Shimano high flange, plus a dozen or so Maillard low flange models. There's enough parts to build another 100 or more bikes, I just don't see them being worth the labor as low end models just don't bring enough in the end.

We don't have a coop near here either. If you have the time a lot of the better parts will sell on eBay or here etc. If I had access to parts like this I would teach a bike repair class or build a kid a bike at a local church, sell parts and scrap the very low end stuff.

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"AND its belt drive!" :thumb:

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Yes! But as you can see, it really needs horizontal dropouts for getting the tension correct. Perhaps a framer builder with very small hands ...

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Either that or perhaps the owner could place the belt in the clothes dryer for a few minuti to diminish it a scoche.

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The low end stuff will have to go immediately, I don't care to get jammed up storing frames and bikes that I can't sell or use. Right now two of my enclosed trailers are full and I just got done unloading my truck. Complete bikes take up a lot of storage space, if I build up a bunch of bikes, and they don't sell then I'm stuck storing them. Besides, I don't think they would bring enough to cover my time and labor. Spending hours putting together a bike that will only bring $100 tops just doesn't make sense. The wheelsets will sell, I've never had any trouble selling matched sets, they move faster than whole bikes around here. Frames don't sell, even high end bike frames don't move here.

Today I loaded up more boxes of bare rims, most are in lots of 20 and 24, all from the 70's and 80's.
There's also some smaller rims made in Italy, not sure what brand they could be for, and a few boxes of cheap replacement steel rims. It doesn't look like the guy was ever a dealer, just a used bike shop, with a hoarder mentality to some extent. I suppose at some point the low end bikes sold well. The odd thing is I grew up in this area and never remember him being there, there was never a sign, never any reason to believe he was building, fixing, or selling bikes there.
My major concern is that there's not enough money in these to make it worth the effort, the sum of the new parts is minor since most of it is all low end common parts, boxes of 1/2 rubber block pedals, wald axles, wald fenders, nuts, bolts, and brackets etc. Even on eBay you can only sell so much of that kind of stuff so fast. Larger items that don't have big value don't sell because the shipping cost adds too much to the cost of the item to make it worth the trouble. For instance, if I list a set of steel wheels online, and they're say worth only $30 locally, and its going to take $30 to ship, they're just not going to sell. In the end the seller ends up eating the cost of the shipping no matter what. With this in mind they really need to sell locally to be worth dealing with and I don't see that happening. I'm mainly hoping that I'll find enough items in the lot I want to keep or use to make the whole mess worthwhile. As I stand now, I've got about 16 hours in moving this stuff, and I've not even unloaded the second load yet. It can't stay in the trailer, and I don't want to jam up the garage with a pile of bikes either. Its going to get sorted and stripped as it comes out of the trailer, if its not perfect, its gone. I just hate to scrap a lot of good cheap bike frames but in the end they're not worth anything any other way, they may not even be worth the fuel to haul them to the junk yard with the way scrap prices have been lately. The whole trailer full of bikes isn't worth the time and fuel to haul to the junk yard, nor is it worth risking a flat tire in those places.
I'd likely just pile the junk up for a scrap guy to come take. The last time I had a pile of frames like this I ended up having to compact them into a dumpster just to get rid of them. Even the scrap guys didn't want light iron.
For right now I'm trying not to think too far ahead though. I've got the basement and one garage bay empty, plus all the benches cleared off.
What's left is the bulk lot of cheap bikes and what ever is upstairs in tubs.
I'm finding tubs full of used bearings, boxes of misc old headsets, bottom brackets, and nuts and bolts. He saved everything. There are boxes of crusty used cheap derailleurs all over the place, and I found fourteen boxes full of used hubs, all just cut out of their rims with the spoke still hanging on. I've got at least 400 lbs of Shimano 333 three speed hubs, in unknown condition, about half of that in SA hubs, and another 35 or so milk crates full of cheap steel hubs. Many are low spoke count hubs. I filled the bed of a pickup truck today with rusty, bent old fenders that he had stored upstairs. I suppose there may well be a gem in all this mess but I'm not too optimistic from what I've seen so far. Its likely just going to turn out to be a pile of nice wheels and some new parts and a couple tons of scrap. I bagged and threw away over 1500 rotten bike tires already that he had saved all over the place. Some where rotted so bad they were falling apart just handling them. My guess is that he saved every tire he ever changed.

Years ago a guy that I worked for had a model of a 10 speed bike on his desk that he brought back from overseas. It had real spoked wheels, a working chain, working cables, and dead on realistic tires. It was roughly 10" long and stood on its own kickstand on his desk. I believe it was a model of a Panasonic bike, identical to one he rode back then. The level of detail was astounding. If you rolled the tires over a bit you could see that every spoke was soldered individually. The wheels were spokes left and right just like the real bike. Each wheel was perfectly true, the brake calipers worked, as did the chain and cranks and it had mini toe clips on each pedal.
I'm not sure where he got it or how much he paid for it but he would get very nervous when someone handled it.

Here's some more pics, most of this stuff looks new or close to it.
I suppose I could fill the next 20 pages with pics from this lot, there won't be any end to it anytime soon as it'll take months to sort through all the tubs. This is just a few of the better items I grabbed and set aside.
The weather isn't going to cooperate today so not much will get done other than stuffing the last trailer full. Since this is in someone's backyard, I can't go in with a big truck, I've been doing this with enclosed car trailers and a couple of diesel pickups, plus a few of my vans from the shop. I also don't want to just show up there with a bunch of strangers since a lot of this stuff is in his house. After today all the trailers and trucks will be full, I have to empty the vans asap, I need them for work, but the big trailers can stay loaded for a few days. I cleared out two rooms upstairs at my shop for storage, so I can pack some items in there. I suppose I can stash quite a few wheels and boxes of parts in a pair of 30x23ft rooms with 10ft ceilings for now if its done right. The only problem is hauling it all up the stairs to get it there for right now. I took most of the new old stock wheelsets home to the house. Like everything else, these are extremely dusty but not rusted or corroded. They all clean up with just a quick wipe with a rag for the most part.

1 - Super Champion 27" w/Normandy hub so far this doesn't have a mate
2 - Weinmann 519 700Cx37 Kenda wheel, (no matching rear so far)
3 - Weinman Concave 700C w/Atom LF hubs Raleigh scripted skewers
4 - Schwinn S6 26x1 3/8" 1956 date on SA AW hub OLD Western Auto Nylon tires still inflated!
5 - Schwinn S5 26x1 3/8" 1961 dated Schwinn scripted 3spd hub
6 - Schwinn Scripted hub on above wheelset
7 - Mavic Open Pro front wheel 700Cx23 tire Ultegra hub, *no rear match so far)
8 - Araya 26x1.75 36h MTB rims, (mid 80's?)
9 - Araya alloy rims with Shimano 333 HF hubs, new old stock
10 - Atom LF hubs on Weinmann Concave wheelset

Man, that's the kind of place I DREAM of finding! I would have a blast for years to come building up all kinds of different bikes!

Don't want to be a vulture, but if you find any big fat tanwall tires in 27x1-3/8 that aren't too dried out I would LOVE to get a few pairs off of you. I believe there is someone else on here too who is in search of the same. They just don't make fat 27" tires like they used to anymore!

I could also use a big fat pair of tanwall 650B tires as well. I just found a pair of 650B wheels in my shed the other day that I didn't even know I had!

I had almost the same thing happen to me about 10yrs ago. A customer from my Power Equipment repair shop came to my house right after I closed my shop ( I told him I would still work on his stuff from home ) and I had a lot of bikes around, he says I didn't know you were into bikes and I asked him if he saw the bikes at my repair shop ( he just didn't put 2 & 2 together), he tells me he had a bike shop that he closed almost 30yrs ago and still had everything packed in a garage and some sheds, he gave it all to me! He turned out to be a great friend after that and I helped him with anything I could, he was 92yrs old and still riding, he passed a few yrs ago and I miss him all the time. He was a mailman who liked bikes and planes building his first plane in the same shop he did bike repairs in, I worked on his Rotax 2 cycle engines for him. Here is a before & after pic of his truing stand he gave me, which I gave to my boss and it is displayed at our shop.


Glenn

I've never called a truing stand beautiful before, but that certainly is.

Wow, what are the chances there's two of those old stands around here like that, this guy I'm cleaning out had this one, I took pics before we moved it. I think this one is bigger, its wide enough to do a motorcycle wheel or one of Fat bike or chopper wheels. He had this, two homemade stands, and a Park TS2 stand that doesn't look like its ever been used. The homemade stands are made from Schwinn forks with threads through the sides, the forks are welded to pipes, atop old rims. One looks like it sat outside for a long time.
The Hozan is a nice stand to use but the TS2 dishes the wheel for you automatically.

OLDLUGS

Where are you out of?

I realize you must have too much to list on her but perhaps somebody might have something you need and they might have something you want (assuming that the deal was you not sell on Ebay but it's okay to trade???)

Here's another group of pics, these were on his bench area, which is buried, plus a few shots in a room in the garage with the furnace in it which we haven't figured out how to get in and out of yet. There's bikes and parts on shelves beyond where we've been able to walk, Its looking like we might have to remove the parts, then the shelves just to reach the back of the one room. There's two more of these drawer cabinets full of parts I haven't been able to reach yet too. He's told me to take the tool boxes, tools, benches, and bike stands too. So far I'm up to five trips with more than one trailer at a time. If this wasn't close to home, I'd probably just rent a few 53' box vans and get it done all in one shot but the car trailer route lets me back right up to the garage around the back of the house.
I had four guys working for the past four or five hours unloading the car trailers, so those are ready for another load either tonight or tomorrow. I'm hoping one more trip does it, I'm running out of spare room to put this stuff. The last load can stay in the trailers but I've still got all the bikes in the tin shed and most of the bikes in the main garage to load on top of the parts in the two back rooms, the attic, and what ever is left in the house upstairs. On top of his adding places to empty to the list, his wife, who can barely walk has been dragging things out of hiding places as well. I'm guessing he had parts stashed all over the house.
This isn't the first place like this I cleaned out but its by far one of the biggest lots. He's giving me the parts, but the ordeal is getting expensive both due to the fuel in the trucks, buying everyone lunch and dinner when they work, hourly pay for up to four guys at a time from a local labor service, plus pizza and beer for the handful of buddies who have been here every night to help sort and haul this stuff upstairs.

On a flip note, I guess I'm not getting much done at work for the last three days this week, so far all I've done is move bike parts since I got involved in this. Its looking like some will have to go in my basement at the house as well, plus the shed, garage, backyard, boat, camper, you name it. Just so I don't have to pay to store any of it I'll deal with it till I get it sorted out. I did grab the tool boxes and bring them right home, plus all the tools hanging all over the place.

Talk about a treasure trove!

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The condition and order of all the materials is truly impressive. Usually with troves like this the holdings are grunge, messy, dirty and of little value/utility. This is quite something!

Take your time and enjoy...

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The scale of this is larger than I thought or can Evan really comprehend. Good luck and have fun. You will no doubt end up with some things worth some of your time invested.

Those tools are *the* treasure. The 2nd bike I ever bought was a '77 Raleigh Super Course that I got at a garage sale and I still have. The lady selling asked me if I might want some tools with it and for a small amount extra I walked away with a lot of Park tools that quickly became indispensible. At the time I purchased them I didn't realize just how important they'd become to me, but i was taught to never turn down tools at a reasonable price. Good advice...

That sign is RAD.

sekine model ???
 

A guy that I do automotive repair for was throwing away a sekine not sure what model but he said I could have it I would like to restore this bike and any help on what model it is would be great

I agree, the tools are the biggest find. I did a similar clean out over the summer up in NY.
The guy had four tool boxes atop a workbench along the back wall in the garage, and another in the house in the basement. I couldn't even see the tools or what was on the benches because of the clutter. Each drawer in the tool boxes had an oily rag covering the tools in each drawer.