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I see people posting scrap yard finds on here.I have never been to one.I was kinda thinking about check ones in my area.Now when you go there do they have stuff for sale?Like a bike section?Or is there just random piles of stuff?Or don't they really save stuff to sell.You just have to be there at the right time before it gets scraped?In hopes they will sell it to you.Anyways I really want to start hitting local scrap yards in my area.In hopes of saving old school bmx bikes.From an unspeakable end.Any info would be great.

crownrox · 2012-07-23 4:53pm

the scrapyards around here dont seperate bike parts.... couldnt care less about them

Just a right place right time thing

BMX KYLE · 2012-07-23 4:57pm

crownrox wrote:
the scrapyards around here dont seperate bike parts.... couldnt care less about them

Just a right place right time thing

That sucks have you ever had any luck?If so whats your best find?

Hobbes12 · 2012-07-23 4:58pm

My local Scrap Yards wont sell anything to the Public

BMX*Racer*1983 · 2012-07-23 5:02pm

I go twice everyday I ave 2 yards local to me. I find stuff from time to time most yards will not let you in I am close friends with owners of both yards. My last find was a 81 PK......

BMX KYLE · 2012-07-23 5:06pm

BMX*Racer*1983 wrote:
I go twice everyday I ave 2 yards local to me. I find stuff from time to time most yards will not let you in I am close friends with owners of both yards. My last find was a 81 PK......

Thats awsome.A pk ripper.

JAMMJ · 2012-07-23 5:06pm

my local scrapyard used to sell junk to the public and they used to have bike line ups. I used to check it every day. This guy/owner died from cancer and his family sold it to a bona fide metal scrap co. Whats bad about this is that this new company that took over the location wont sell nothing out of the yard and takes in scrap metal. Its like a punch in the gut. Now i gotta go to boys n girls club to makes sure no old mongooses are dumped there. Theres another place but i forget its name. Gotta go by there too. Making me go all over the place instead down the road.

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BMX*Racer*1983 · 2012-07-23 5:10pm

http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=408612

JAMMJ · 2012-07-23 5:18pm

go away bmxracer quit taunting us

BMX KYLE · 2012-07-23 5:20pm

BMX*Racer*1983 wrote:
http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=408612

I did see that one.I posted on it.Thats an awsome find.

LIFE BEHIND BARS · 2012-07-23 5:24pm

Same here the local yards won't sell anything once it's scrapped and will chase you off if you wait at the entrance trying to buy bikes on the way in.F'n dirtbags!!!

Buster Posey · 2012-07-23 5:28pm

i work just down the road from a huge scrap yard. Torture = watching pickup trucks fly by filled with scrap and swearing you see a score poking out

80sbikedude · 2012-07-23 6:13pm

Pretty muck luck of the draw and depends on the day you go.

Darkseacret · 2012-07-23 6:18pm

My neighbor swings by my house with a full trailer of scap bikes every blue moon. I get pick of the litter . Nothing good yet but a earth cruiser I cleaned up for my daughter ,sofar its all been junk . exept for a some mt.b stuff. But I keep crossing my fingers and giving him 12 pks.

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BMX KYLE · 2012-07-23 6:20pm

Iam gonna get feel for mine this weekend and see what happens.

BMX*Racer*1983 · 2012-07-23 6:27pm

Scrap Yard Scores This Year

My last P/U I have had a dry spell with bikes

And These Claean Huffy

This was on it

Then 3 Days Later Bam Another Same Yard

This was on it

Oh and this

SMITHBMX · 2012-07-23 6:41pm

I make deliverys to a couple and you just have to slowly get to know them and tell the operators what to look for, now my guys just set aside bikes for me and i either buy them or trade things for the ones i want. One operator actually got very interested in the hobby after a scrapper brought in a bike he had bitd. Remember they take of you so take care of them!!!!

ibuiltmine · 2012-08-01 7:00pm

SMITHBMX wrote:
I make deliverys to a couple and you just have to slowly get to know them and tell the operators what to look for, now my guys just set aside bikes for me and i either buy them or trade things for the ones i want. One operator actually got very interested in the hobby after a scrapper brought in a bike he had bitd. Remember they take of you so take care of them!!!!

exactly! I go every day, sometimes twice a day to get the good ones. I know them good enough that they let me climb the pile to get ones they already lifted up on the pile.
I asked the guy to take anything BMX off to the side and I would buy it. I ahve to buy some shitty NEXT stuff sometimes just to appease him, but I get ahold of some cool shit that way.

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