I am home for 6 weeks now.
I am buying, fixing and reselling bikes, for the last 8 years. The money from the bikes were not a lot but were helping in paying different expenses, like college apartment rental or so.
But it is funny to fix bikes and a quite time also.
Over winter I buy cheap bikes and fix them, so in spring I have maybe 20...25 ready to go.
This year was different.
After March 20th was a explossion of sales.
I sold more than 60 bikes in 6 weeks, with prices over 120$ to 600$. Maybe 3...4 were sold for around 100. Many bikes, maybe 25% were sold in the first day of posting online.
Less than 10 were shipped, the rest were sold local.
The worst was to buy a bike. If a good bike at a decent price was for sale, it was sold in the next 10 minutes.
I was travelling 2 hours to buy 2...3 better bikes.
Two times, when I arrived at the seller, the bike was sold. But was close to my house.
Probably the mechanics from bike shops were out of job too, because a lot of new "dealers" showed on the market.
Now it looks to be calm. No good bikes on the market, at resonable prices.
I am calm too. I have left 5...6 bikes, good quality, not in a hurry to sell, not too much money invested in them
The garage is emty too.
And the coming week, probably Monday i will be back to work.
BUT, I will keep my eyes open for any opportunities to buy a cheap, quality bike.
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1992 Torelli Nitro Express; 1972 Claud Butler.