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Money, Freeware from Another Company
copyright 1991
Chapter 3
THE BICYCLE BUSINESS
Do you like bicycles? Have we got news for you! There
are several ways to make big bucks with bicycles.
Having just read the previous section about the yard
sale game, you must see one way immediately. You can buy
used bikes at yard sales, and sell them for three times more
money.
You can consign bikes to second-hand stores and bicycle
shops. They are almost all interested in consignments,
don't be afraid to ask. you can sell bikes at flea markets,
and, depending on where you live, you can chain bikes up in
front of your house with a sign that says "BIKES FOR SALE".
Or you can chain up bikes in front of a friend's house. Your
friend can sell the bikes, and split the profit with you.
The best sellers are children's bikes. Mountain bikes
are easy to sell, but used ones are hard to find at a
reasonable price. We mostly ignore mountain bikes, only
buying them when something good shows up, yet we have plenty
of customers for our childrens' bikes.
There are two things that you must be careful about,
however. The bikes must not be stolen. Consider the
source. Do the people you are buying from seem decent? Most
families having yard sales would never sell stolen bikes out
of their own home. In most communities, you can call the
police and ask them to check their computer for the serial
number of a bike you are considering.
The other thing you must do is make sure the bikes you
sell are mechanically safe.
It is possible to make money in the bike business
without doing any repairs, but there is far greater profit in
buying broken bikes which sell for nearly nothing and fixing
them.
Bike repair is easy to learn and a really satisfying
craft, but for those of you who are not interested in
turning wrenches, we suggest partnership. One person can do
all the repairing, while the other does the buying and
selling. Partnerships are also a way to instantly acquire
equipment. Perhaps one partner has a big barn, but the other
has tools. A good partnership can be sister-brother,
father-son or grandchild-grandparent. This is a great project
to bring a family with scattered interests together.
* If you have repairing facilities, you can make $30/hour
repairing peoples' bikes for them. No licensing or college
degree is required, yet there is a big demand for qualified
bike repair people. How do you become qualified? Start with
repairing just the bikes you sell (test ride your repairs
extensively to make sure they are safe). Then do just the
retail repair work of which you are capable. At the
beginning, you can fix flats tires for people, but you should
probably not attempt complete tune-ups. Eventually with
practice, complete overhauls will be no problem for you.
There are several bike repair books on the market, and
for the right price, the local bike shop would be glad to
help you when you have a problem.
* There is also a great profit to be had in supplying used
parts. If you accumulate a big parts pile, it is like having
money in the bank. (At Another Company, we used to have 1/4
acre coverd with bike parts, in places 6 feet deep.)
For those of you interested in the bike business, we
offer a disk called THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE HOME-OPERATED
BICYCLE BUSINESS. This tutorial details everything you will
ever need to know about buying and selling bicycles. It
contains such information as how to get parts wholesale, used
bike price charts, how to close sales and for those who are
interested in taking this business to higher levels, how to
expand into an official glass-front retail bike store.
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE HOME-OPERATED BICYCLE
BUSINESS works in any IBM-compatible computer.
Price: $9.95 (No extra charge for postage, handling or tax!)
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We have another program you might like. BICYCLE
TUNE-UP AND REPAIR is a pictures-and-text tutorial that will
show you how to tune up bicycles. Bicycle shops charge
anywhere from $12 to $35 for this service, and they don't
always do it right! Do your own tune-ups and know they're
done right!
BICYCLE TUNE-UP AND REPAIR requires CGA,EGA or VGA.
Mono monitor ok. Hard disk NOT required. Works fine in
laptops, Tandys and PC Jr.
Price $9.95
send to:
ANOTHER COMPANY
P.O. Box 298
Applegate, OR 97530
503-846-7884
Please specify 5.25" or 3.5" disk size.
(Outside USA: Send US funds drawn on a US bank)
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