I forgot to forward this message to the list. It kind of responds to Brian Bayliss's position expressed later than I wrote this. The parting ut question is complicated as to what is the real virtue of the complete original bike. Remember I'm talking about parting out mid-level factory bikes with neat parts.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Little Falls, NJ
> Another thing is feeding your hobby. Or as Chuck says, caretaking. Driving
> down to Norfolk, Virginia and back in a day, paying too much to liberate
the
> whored out McLean from a pawnshop. and then getting it refinished will
never
> be "profitable" but at least it can be justified by sweat equity earned by
> cleaning up, or parting out, and selling a less special find on ebay. It
> especially won't be profitable because I won't sell the doggone thing!
>
> Joe B-Z
> GNNJ