SETUP: Twice a year, in beautiful Old Bridge NJ, the Englishtown race track hosts a 3-day auto swap meet which my pals and I have been vendors at for the past 8 years. Usually we have a few odds and ends to sell, but mostly it's a social thing. There has been a massive uprising of a bicycle subculture there, with almost as many vendors hocking ****ty Next/Magna/Huffy bikes as are selling actual car parts.
So my two friends and I got thinking on how to pin this market down. Between us, there isn't a bike problem we can't fix, and I have a full arsenal of tools. I think that if I bring down the whole bike toolbox and load it with the lowest end tubes, brake pads, chains etc., we can make a KILLING doing while-you-wait repairs on all these junky bikes that people buy to avoid walking, and end up with flat tires and seized chains half the time.
REQUEST: Anyone know of an online vendor, be it bike specific or broad like Amazon, selling battle packs of CHEAP CHEAP 26" and 20" tubes, along with other cheap and crappy parts? Looking to maximize profit on $10 bikes that will only ever see flat tarmac again.
Thanks!
So my two friends and I got thinking on how to pin this market down. Between us, there isn't a bike problem we can't fix, and I have a full arsenal of tools. I think that if I bring down the whole bike toolbox and load it with the lowest end tubes, brake pads, chains etc., we can make a KILLING doing while-you-wait repairs on all these junky bikes that people buy to avoid walking, and end up with flat tires and seized chains half the time.
REQUEST: Anyone know of an online vendor, be it bike specific or broad like Amazon, selling battle packs of CHEAP CHEAP 26" and 20" tubes, along with other cheap and crappy parts? Looking to maximize profit on $10 bikes that will only ever see flat tarmac again.
Thanks!
