I used to flatten the rear triangle by laying the frame down and stepping on it till the dropouts touched each other.  That made them take up less space and would have made reusing them nearly impossible since straightening the tubes would have cracked them in most cases.

Scott

On Jul 19, 2014 2:26 PM, <veganboyjosh@gmail.com> wrote:

after making sure they were completely unsalvageable, i always found it really satisfying to make things like cheater bars or shop stools out of unroadworthy high-end frames, especially if i could leave the logo on there for people to recognize.  

 

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:05 PM, mpattisall <mike.pattisall@velocitycoop.org> wrote:

Usually we strip useful parts off a bike before scrapping - saddles, grips, pedals, wheels, forks, cable housing etc. .  What's left is hardly worth bringing back from the dead.  But cutting up bikes can be fun, here's a nifty Salsa Ziptie and Pencil holder we made.<salsa ziptie holder.jpg>

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Andrew Shooner <ashooner@gmail.com> wrote:

Our shop recently changed our procedure regarding scrap bikes: any donated bikes that we conclude we will scrap rather than rehab & redistribute are now disabled by cutting the frame of the bike.

Recently, some donated bike that had been put in our scrap pile appeared on Craigslist. We had two concerns: first, that donors would be unhappy that their donations were being sold by another party, and second that we could develop a reputation as a source of scrap bikes to be picked and sold elsewhere (and usually those bikes were beyond safe repair).

I'd like to hear other perspectives. Is controlling the use of donated bikes (to maintain the integrity of a donation as well as the safety of bikes coming through the shop) worth disabling a bike that might otherwise be reused downstream?

Andy

Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop

Lexington, KY