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So there I was at the tip helping my sister unload a few bags of garden waste, when a man and his son walk past pushing a bike. Up the steps to the skip they go, so I ask nicely if they're getting rid of it, and if so, please don't throw it, I'll have it.
He rolls it back down the steps, hands it over, and says the front wheel bearings are gone, but I'm welcome to it - ignoring the 'it's illegal to take stuff from the dump' signs all round. Pop it in to the car quickly, then off home.
On closer inspection, it's a pretty much spotless Scott Tacana, 2001 ish. Immaculate XT 9 speed\LX groupset, mint Hope skewers, posh Blackburn rack, IRC folding tyres with the hairy bits still on, ritchey wheelset. Front wheel bearings are fine, but the rear needs the cones tightening. Aside from surface rust on the v-brake pad bolts and noodles and chainring bolts, the rest is almost perfect!
Not bad, I thought. Frame is too small for me, but I may stockpile the nice bits and pass the rest on, if anyone needs a nice, small 7005 Aluminium frame.
Good find . It's usually that you aren't allowed to remove items from the skips if somebody give an item to you before it gets there they can't say anything.
Its a shame in this age of recycle everything that good useable bikes get melted down.
In the past you could slip the tip-men a £5 or £10 and they would fish a bike out of the skip for you, nowdays you get shouted at if you try to look at a bike.
Some tips have a charity arrangement and keep the bikes back for recycle projects which is good.
As i understand it, the moment i release my old bike into the skip it then becomes the property of the waste company. If the person dumping the bike hands it to you first, then the waste company cant do anything about it, maybe tell you off but thats it.
Sounds like a good find Kaysee, any chance of piccy when its cleaned up and ready to roll 😀
I hope someone doesn't fish the Dr Jekyll frame I tipped yesterday, looks mint, will kill you if you ride it!
what ace said, the bike never became the property of the waste company- it was given to you by the original owner. A nice result. Our local tip recover anything vaguely useful and stick it next to the staff hut for sale.
Its a shame in this age of recycle
Our recycling is bullshit.
Buy
Thrown away
Spend loads of energy transporting and melting it back down to turn it into low quality good which are then:
Thrown away and probably put into land fill.
We don't reuse and repair.
On a more positive note, nice find op!
How small is the frame? I'm looking for a mtb frame to build for my son...