Someone will buy it if you put it on ebay etc. You won’t get anything like you think its worth though

I’m sort of in the market so have been casually looking and there are some cheap bikes out there as frames and complete bikes. I think you’ll get more for the parts as there are are loads of us 26″ luddites out there buying bits to keep things going but the frame will be tricky.

A mate of mine has just bought a 26″ Sesh Enduro, He definately got a bargain, the seller wanted a 650B and was desperate to sell, i think right now is a good time to buy any bike, Come the spring and when the TDY comes through then demand will increase.

There are buyers who ONLY want 26″ though, he could have bought 650B Himself but couldnt see the point.

I had a brief attempt at splitting and selling my 26″ Five last year. I was trying to sell: Frame, Pike Forks, Float Forks and Hope/Flow wheels. The Pikes went straight away, but there wasn’t much interest in anything else. OK, I didn’t try that hard, but I wasn’t exactly inundated with offers.

Of course anything will sell if the price is right, but I suspect that the price for these items has now dropped low enough that I’d probably rather just keep them and enjoy them myself.

It’s really simple take good photos, write a good description and stick it ion Ebay with a 1p starting price. Job done.

I’ve got a Yeti ASR5 frame I should sell, but I’m half tempted to hold onto it for a few years, old Yetis in decent nick seem to have their fans.

I keep toying with the idea of going to 650b and swap the parts over as I have some decent kit.

This would amount to frame, forks and wheels. Priced up buying something 2nd hand the lost based on the frame I am after would mean shelling out around £1500 which frankly doesn’t really justify it for me.

I will stick to my 26″ Enduro and if it ever breaks then will think about swapping, until then long live 26″ frames!!

I broke my Prophet over Christmas, threaded the BB, I’d just bought some forks for it but not fiited them. If hadn’t I’d probably have got a new bike.

I managed to get a Prophet frame off here which is lot nicer than mine plus I now have a spare swing arm and shock. It’s in the bike shop getting a thorough servicing.

It’s 1×10, has a 150mm bolt through forks, Hope hoops and has a dropper post and it’s slack and long – I could spend 3500 quid to get slightly bigger wheels and a bolt through rear end.

I now intend to keep it for a long time as it certainly more capable than me. I’m sure there will be a market for second hand bits for people keep their frames going and people looking for frames to keep their bits going.

From what I’m seeing the market if anything is picking up!

When 650b become eveything it seemed that you couldn’t give away 26″ stuff, but it seems the shock factor has gone now. my current bike sort of evolved out of my last one about 12-18 months ago.

I bought nearly new, really nice forks for £180 that cost the seller £550 6 months before and that was discounted from £750rrp. The cheapest ones on eBay now are £250 and aren’t in as good nick as mine now, certainly not as good as when I bought them.

My frame cost me £400, admittedly it’s a bit battered, but the few that come up for sale now and again are always more than that.

My wheels cost me £100 for some ex-demo Mavic EN-521 rims on Superstar hubs, they’re not flash, but they’re tough and stiff, people seem to be asking £40ish for fronts and £60 for rears, what I paid for them 18 months ago when they were new’ minus a few dirty thumb prints.

Yes there’s always a gulf between asking price and what they sell for, but when I swap my bike in a few months it looks at least like I’ll get roughly what I paid for the 26″ specific bits – the rest ironically was all bought new and will be pennies.

My missus’s Prophet stripped its BB shell. Argos Cycles in Bristol fixed it by bonding in an insert. Cost the best part of £100 but it’s got to be better than skipping a perfectly serviceable frame.

I’ll just leave this here.

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Cheers for the tip-off. (-:

I think a lot of people snap up cheap bikes and split them.

I worked in a shop and one of the manager’s was a dodgy so and so – he’d offer people a bit more than the shop would on trade ins, pay cash and split the bike on eBay. He did OK out of it too.

26 stuff doesn’t sell for that much

Seems to be a lot of cheap 26 inch stuff about.

I just got a pair of not far off mint Hope Pro2/ex721 wheels with tyres for £110 delivered.

The guy I got them off ended up selling his 2 year old Orange 5 frame/Kashima shock for £350 – granted it was a 20 inch frame but seems really cheap to me.

I’m surprised that a Charlie the bike monger type get up hasn’t started specialising in 26″ers and components only. There does still appear to be demand for higher end forks and wheels etc. I have just about come to the end of my “back of the shed” components stock. My latest bike has been built with 11year old wheels – can’t fault beyondmountainbikes wheel building though!