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My old bike is needing sold, but it is in a bit of a state of disrepair (brakes need plummed in, tyres are worn, small visual only scratch on fork stancheon, one tooth chipped off the 51T cog (grr)).
The second hand market is challenging enough as it is, so I wouldn't expect more than say £8or900 at most if it was all in good condition.
I'd be looking at spending several hundred quid to get it up to that point...have you lot had much success parting out bikes for sale in the modern MTB world? Initially I was thinking it would be good for a beginner, but I don't think anyone will want to take on such a project and I need to cut my losses.
i.e.
Frame dropper & Shock (all good)
Burgtec bars
Groupset (be honest about the cog)
Fork (scratch hasn't affected function but I would not get much for this due to it)
Brakes for cheap
I've never parted out a bike, do you think it makes more sense to do this from your experience, or sell the whole lot as a fixer-upper for beans? It's a 2021 model Trek Fuel EX.
I am lucky enough that I don't desperately need the cash at this point in time but getting some pocket money, time saved, and space in the shed would be great.
I've done it when I've wanted to move some components from an old bike to new. Yeah, I did OK out of it but it's a lot of messing about with all the postage and such. I probably got slightly more than selling the whole bike, but this was largely due to having a set of unused hydraulic drop bar drifters to sell which are bloody expensive new. You might do better further splitting up the groupset and selling multiple good parts rather than a set with a damaged expensive component.
I'd split it, especially as it's not rideable.
Unless it was an absolute bargain I'd not touch a bike that needed the brakes bled etc simply because it shows the owner can't do their own maintenance or isn't the type to just drop it off at the LBS every month to fix whatever's gone wrong. Which probably means there's other bits worn out as well that they may not even be aware of. At least when sold in bits you can get a better idea what condition the bits are in.
@thisisnotaspoon - Yes I think you are probably right. I robbed some parts from it when I got a new bike and set aside some spares I had to put on the old one, not really thinking of the work, money and time required to get it back up to a useable level to sell.
I don't even have a SRAM bleed kit to do the brakes and don't really want to buy one - I just immediately swapped them off my new bike in favour of the Shimano ones that I prefer.
Split it - whole bikes are an assembly of someone else's perfect set of parts - it's unlikely to be someone else's.
Oh and please leave "parting out" to the yanks. 😉 the phrase drives me mad for some reason
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I am in the same position with a few bikes that have built up over the last thirty years! Only one will sell for good money quickly
I think I am just going to put the parts into different baskets in the shed and start on eBay.
What's selling at the moment? Is it retro stuff, odd weird bits, lightly worn?
My general rule with eBay for other things is to have two or three things on the go, always end on a early Sunday evening when people are sitting down; then use Royal Mail First Class Signed For and have it collected which means it goes into the buyers hands rather under the hedge, left on the doorstep. Always pack well, its not hard! If I do £50 a week it's a regular dripping tap of money.
I've always found it easier to part out a bike than sell whole. But it's a more a question of value Vs reward. Generally you'll can get around 10-20% more value out of a bike by carefully parting out, but this takes significant efforts and time. Selling a bike whole, for me anyway, has been good if I wanted the money quick, but I also will have to take less cash for it as a whole item.
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Haha, trust me - I would not dare risk the slagging if I attempted to sell it here.