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Old 03-19-23, 07:17 PM
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Wichita Area Bike Shop Liquidation

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I came across an online liquidation auction for a 60 year old bike shop that has closed in Wichita Kansas. If you google Tom Sawyer Bicycle Shop auction, you can easily find it. This is not my auction and I have no financial stake in it. Much of it is things like shelves and fixtures and crap bikes, but there are some N.O.S. Schwinn items, some wheels and hubs man cave materials and other odds and ends.. It is searchable if there is something specific you want to look for or you can go through all 17 pages like it is old bike porn like I did.

Link if you don't want to get there through google. But sometimes the forum software makes links look scary for some reason. https://littlebull.prod3.maxanet.auc...vAOs0Dw%3d%3d#
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Liquidation sales for old bike shops that have gone out of business are a dangerous place for the C&V crowd to hang out in. Just ask me how I happen to know that . . .
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Originally Posted by bikemig
Liquidation sales for old bike shops that have gone out of business are a dangerous place for the C&V crowd to hang out in. Just ask me how I happen to know that . . .
I understand. Were I closer to Wichita, I would probably be trying to buy boxes of old hubs, 27" fenders, wheels and other crap that my kids would have to get rid of in an Estate sale some day.
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It just so happens I will be passing through Wichita a couple days after this auction ends. Not a lot of things I would bid on given the limited information and pictures. I was just on the edge of bidding on one of the old bikes, and the account sign-up process stopped me. If it had been one or two steps I might have done it, but it was more than that and I do not need an "account" with Little Bull Auction & Sales in Kansas.
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Auction house has a wall to keep interested bidders away
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Originally Posted by bikemig
Liquidation sales for old bike shops that have gone out of business are a dangerous place for the C&V crowd to hang out in. Just ask me how I happen to know that . . .
I am still using parts from the odd lot boxes I bought from an estate sale 20 years ago. There were some tools that have proven to be invaluable, though. I think I spent less than $30.
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