Thanks for your video! Very dramatic, with the music! :D But, I also see so many apparently abandoned bicycles sitting around. Some are real treasures, like really good 80ies or 90ies mtbs with lugged steel frames. Such a shame that so many bicycles are abandoned. I feel like a lot of it accounts to people not knowing how and/or wanting to take care of them. In the end, often these are the bikes that were not appreciated by their owners. I feel like in general cities here in Germany are so full of abandoned bikes that many people don't even notice them, almost like they are a part of the cityscape. Since I have started building up a 26" mtb recently, I see so much potential in so many bikes sitting rotting around in the streets. But what do I expect, not everybody has the same passion and understanding for bicycles.
I feel the same, thinking how easy it would be to fix something...then I must remember myself I have done many builds, got the tools and boxes of spare parts. For many the cost of bringing it to the local bike shop for a service and repair is more than the value of the bike...so they just let it sit there, a couple of days turn into weeks, then the seatpost is gone or something similar and then it is doomed. Anyways, I hope someone gets inspired by my builds and decides to repair or rebuild their old bike, then the emotional value of it will increase a lot.
Where I learnt bike mechanics our local council oil set a place where bike were collect from the local tips and brought to us We made good. Bikes out of broken bikes and took spare parts off to repair th they then were sold cheaply to low income familys kids bikes sold for about ten pounds kids had birthday and Christmas present there faces. Bought teats to my eyes man i did voluntary and learnt my bike mechanics I love it. This I did20 odd years ago but unfortunately because of cut.backs the workshop closed but recently reopened in the town centre but on a smaller scale but still providing bikes for people to get back into work and kids as presents for Christmas and birthdays All these bike could and shoukd be referred to give a second life Great vid.😊
Hi, thanks for your comment. There is a place in central Munich doing that, they get a chance to pick up collected bikes on a regular basis. I met up with a guy volunteering there last week and he told me this. So yeah, hopefully this bunch will also move on and not end up as scrap metal.
That Greif bike looks cool, from the purple to the decals on the v-brakes, to that rear rack. Well, the rear rack doesn't LOOK cool on this bike per se, but it is cool for a bike packing setup. I bought one just like it a decade ago and I don't think they're made anymore. There are current models which clamp on to the seat post, but the way this (probably Avenir brand) one uses 4 hex bolts is way more solid. Highly recommended. Hopefully you'll be able to get your hands on some of these bikes and breathe some new life in to them! Here in Montréal we also see the city put notes on abandoned bikes like this. I think they used to be donated to SOS Vélo which was a local organization which would rebuild them, with fresh decent quality paint jobs and the original branding covered up with SOS Vélo branding, but they closed up shop about a year ago so I have no idea where our death row bikes go now.
There is hidden potential in many of them, however few people are willing to put in the work. And it is probably very difficult to make a business out of it, or even have sustainability as a volunteering organisation. I pick up quite a few projects like this from my local scrapyard, they occasionally sell bikes to support their work with training people to get back to work. And yeah, although that Greif is very low end, it would definitely clean up!
@@bike2fika I had the total cromoly one and it was never mounted and traded it just a month or so ago. Those yellow ones were pretty . mine was not but stiff as heck.
I wonder how many of these have been reported as”stolen” for an insurance claim/upgrade. I think insurance companies should ask for photos of bikes to prove ownership and check places like this for “missing bikes “ that match
Probably too high effort for the low monetary value. Most of them you could not sell for 20€. But, they could still provide a lot of usability with a little work.
I'm very sure many people don't even report them as stolen or have them insured in the first place since the monetary value is so low. They rather just get a replacement or use it as an excuse to buy a fancy new bike ;)
Too bad there's not some type of a co-op/nonprofit where they take donated bikes and parts to refurbish to help the community. There are several here in the states in larger cities like Boston and Salt Lake. The Bicycle Collective in Salt Lake has several locations around Utah and they would definitely save alot of these bikes and parts. We had one such location here in Oklahoma, but it closed and never reopened during the pandemic. Such a sad thing to see so many bikes with potential go to waste.
There are some places like that around Munich, but on a smaller scale than Bicycle Collective. I don't know how the city is connected, but I hope there is a chance for recycling them.
@@bike2fika There is definitely groups in Munich, like the Bellevue Radlkeller (which I'm part of, an all volunteer group) that regularly get invited to pick up these kind of bikes. They're being collected and stored for at least two months (law requirement). Groups with a social background then get invited to pick up however many bikes they want. I can say though that it is just too many. Approximately 3500-5000 bikes each year (at least that was a number the Park & Ride being responsible for the regular clean-ups told me a few years back) get collected and I would say just a small fraction of it makes it back on the road. As always the biggest problem in Munich is the space, we're just a small group and have a very limited space, being in the center of the city. We do give out roughly 200-300 bikes each year, and I dare to say we are among those that manage to give out probably the most in this big town … which sucks, it should be much more. So to conclude, there is these kind of co-ops/nonprofit, just not enough. But let's hope for the future :)
Thanks for your video! Very dramatic, with the music! :D But, I also see so many apparently abandoned bicycles sitting around. Some are real treasures, like really good 80ies or 90ies mtbs with lugged steel frames. Such a shame that so many bicycles are abandoned. I feel like a lot of it accounts to people not knowing how and/or wanting to take care of them. In the end, often these are the bikes that were not appreciated by their owners. I feel like in general cities here in Germany are so full of abandoned bikes that many people don't even notice them, almost like they are a part of the cityscape. Since I have started building up a 26" mtb recently, I see so much potential in so many bikes sitting rotting around in the streets. But what do I expect, not everybody has the same passion and understanding for bicycles.
I feel the same, thinking how easy it would be to fix something...then I must remember myself I have done many builds, got the tools and boxes of spare parts. For many the cost of bringing it to the local bike shop for a service and repair is more than the value of the bike...so they just let it sit there, a couple of days turn into weeks, then the seatpost is gone or something similar and then it is doomed. Anyways, I hope someone gets inspired by my builds and decides to repair or rebuild their old bike, then the emotional value of it will increase a lot.
Where I learnt bike mechanics our local council oil set a place where bike were collect from the local tips and brought to us
We made good. Bikes out of broken bikes and took spare parts off to repair th they then were sold cheaply to low income familys kids bikes sold for about ten pounds kids had birthday and Christmas present there faces. Bought teats to my eyes man i did voluntary and learnt my bike mechanics I love it. This I did20 odd years ago but unfortunately because of cut.backs the workshop closed but recently reopened in the town centre but on a smaller scale but still providing bikes for people to get back into work and kids as presents for Christmas and birthdays
All these bike could and shoukd be referred to give a second life
Great vid.😊
Hi, thanks for your comment. There is a place in central Munich doing that, they get a chance to pick up collected bikes on a regular basis. I met up with a guy volunteering there last week and he told me this. So yeah, hopefully this bunch will also move on and not end up as scrap metal.
That Greif bike looks cool, from the purple to the decals on the v-brakes, to that rear rack. Well, the rear rack doesn't LOOK cool on this bike per se, but it is cool for a bike packing setup. I bought one just like it a decade ago and I don't think they're made anymore. There are current models which clamp on to the seat post, but the way this (probably Avenir brand) one uses 4 hex bolts is way more solid. Highly recommended. Hopefully you'll be able to get your hands on some of these bikes and breathe some new life in to them!
Here in Montréal we also see the city put notes on abandoned bikes like this. I think they used to be donated to SOS Vélo which was a local organization which would rebuild them, with fresh decent quality paint jobs and the original branding covered up with SOS Vélo branding, but they closed up shop about a year ago so I have no idea where our death row bikes go now.
There is hidden potential in many of them, however few people are willing to put in the work. And it is probably very difficult to make a business out of it, or even have sustainability as a volunteering organisation. I pick up quite a few projects like this from my local scrapyard, they occasionally sell bikes to support their work with training people to get back to work.
And yeah, although that Greif is very low end, it would definitely clean up!
The Girven flex stem was on an OG OFFROAD the original ProFlex before they made a full suspension.
I have one of these stems but it was too wobbly side-to-side for me to use. But I find them pretty cool, visually.
@@bike2fika I had the total cromoly one and it was never mounted and traded it just a month or so ago. Those yellow ones were pretty . mine was not but stiff as heck.
Some bikes with huge potential there....such a waste 😢
I hope the owner of the Trek 930 does not let it go...that one would be a perfect basis for a build.
@bike2fika It would indeed...cool bike 😎
I wonder how many of these have been reported as”stolen” for an insurance claim/upgrade. I think insurance companies should ask for photos of bikes to prove ownership and check places like this for “missing bikes “ that match
Probably too high effort for the low monetary value. Most of them you could not sell for 20€. But, they could still provide a lot of usability with a little work.
I'm very sure many people don't even report them as stolen or have them insured in the first place since the monetary value is so low. They rather just get a replacement or use it as an excuse to buy a fancy new bike ;)
Too bad there's not some type of a co-op/nonprofit where they take donated bikes and parts to refurbish to help the community. There are several here in the states in larger cities like Boston and Salt Lake. The Bicycle Collective in Salt Lake has several locations around Utah and they would definitely save alot of these bikes and parts. We had one such location here in Oklahoma, but it closed and never reopened during the pandemic. Such a sad thing to see so many bikes with potential go to waste.
There are some places like that around Munich, but on a smaller scale than Bicycle Collective. I don't know how the city is connected, but I hope there is a chance for recycling them.
@@bike2fika There is definitely groups in Munich, like the Bellevue Radlkeller (which I'm part of, an all volunteer group) that regularly get invited to pick up these kind of bikes. They're being collected and stored for at least two months (law requirement). Groups with a social background then get invited to pick up however many bikes they want. I can say though that it is just too many. Approximately 3500-5000 bikes each year (at least that was a number the Park & Ride being responsible for the regular clean-ups told me a few years back) get collected and I would say just a small fraction of it makes it back on the road. As always the biggest problem in Munich is the space, we're just a small group and have a very limited space, being in the center of the city. We do give out roughly 200-300 bikes each year, and I dare to say we are among those that manage to give out probably the most in this big town … which sucks, it should be much more.
So to conclude, there is these kind of co-ops/nonprofit, just not enough. But let's hope for the future :)
Lot of nice bike 😥
The property management removed one of mine during the lockdown, and I'm insisting that they replace it.
That sucks, especially if they didn't give several weeks notice.
Could you go in the date of removal (if posted) and ask them if they’d let you take some of them? Could be a free source of interesting parts/frames.
I doubt it. They might hold them for awhile if some owner comes back with.a claim.
some of them will eventually find a second life here, in Serbia thanks to efforts of entrepreneurial people 😄
Are you on a Stooge or is it an old Bianchi maybe? 🤔
Rolling around on my Stooge Speedbomb...
@bike2fika Nice, I have a Mk3 ratbike and a Mk1 converted to truss forks.