Scrap bike parts in Manchester/Stockport area

[Percy]

Anyone know of any decent scrap yards/flea markets etc. in the Manchester/Stockport area where I might pick up some old cheap bike bits. I'm specifically after some forks and drop handlebars, condition and quality not really an issue. Hoping I might be able to find a beaten up old frame collecting dust in a market somewhere and pick it up for a couple of quid, but I don't really know where to go to look.

I've been to Smithfield market before and it's not a bad place to look, but it does tend to be more bulk tupperwear and cheap batteries than proper rummaging opportunities. I've also tried the local tip and a few Stockport scrap yards, but they said they rarely see bike parts. Any other ideas..? (everyone's going to say eBay now, right?!)

Cheers.

 

[fossyant]

If you find one, let me know - never come across one in 40 years living in the area.

Bike Boutique may be a source for some second hand parts - worth a visit - located behind Man Met University's Student Union, near the Sports Centre (back of the Sandbar)

 

[Percy]

If you find one, let me know - never come across one in 40 years living in the area.

Bike Boutique may be a source for some second hand parts - worth a visit - located behind Man Met University's Student Union, near the Sports Centre (back of the Sandbar)

Ha! OK fossyant, will do. Strange isn't it - I'm from a small town down south and the local tip was always (and still is) a great place to go for a rummage and see what other people had chucked away - give them a quid or two and you could take a frame or whatever. I asked at our local 'recycling centre' up here and they said 'it's council property now mate, we can't sell it.' So it just gets landfilled...

I know Bike Boutique. I've lost a little faith with the town centre supposed LBSs recently - I've got an old frame I'm renovating with a weird bottom bracket that I just wanted loosening for me, with a specific tool that they had, and instead of just doing it - it would have taken literally three seconds - he insisted I had to book it in, leave it with them for three days and pay a £10 labour charge! I took it home and did it with a hammer eventually

 

[dan_bo]

Try my shed

 

[400bhp]

To be quite honest, the amount of usable stuff that gets thrown away these days, try a rubbish tip

And/or just set up an ebay search - sooner or later some cheap stuff will come up.

The council websites might have some info?

 

[Percy]

Try my shed

If you're serious, dan_bo, I'd be happy to. Let me know and I'll tell you what I'm after - maybe we can come to an arrangement...

 

[fossyant]

Stockport's (bredbury) tip has gone hi-tech.....so you ain't getting anything.... only option might be the scrap metal bloke before you go in...

 

[fossyant]

Percy...what do you need we all have spares bins.............

 

[dan_bo]

Well yeah what is it you're after?

 

[Percy]

Yeah, I've been down Bredbury - far too high tech like you say.

Well all I'm really after is a set of drop handlebars that I can cut into bull bars for my work bike and a set of forks that I plan to rig up on my workbench as a rudimentary whell servicing stand...

 

[MacB]

it's weird, on spec as a possible build for someone else I picked up a complete bike, minus wheels, for £3 at local tip this week.

 

[Percy]

it's weird, on spec as a possible build for someone else I picked up a complete bike, minus wheels, for £3 at local tip this week.

Hmm...my home town is in Hampshire (assuming you're where your profile says you are)...maybe there's something about their tip policies?

I think it's a bit of big city syndrome up here - if there's not someone who's nicked it, there's someone who'll have it anyway because it's free/cheap, regardless of what they want to do with it (if anything). There's a bike on some railings in town that's been there at least six months - full bike, minus wheels. That'd do nicely but you can bet the time I take a bolt cropper in will be the time plod are there watching, waiting to nick me for 'theft'.

Isn't there a council depot somehwere they take all the found/abondoned bikes? Maybe I should set up a charity renovating them - although, even then, they'd probably find a reason not to give them to me.

 

[RedBike]

You can no longer remove / buy bikes from my local tip either. Some sort of health and safety rubbish. However, there is a rag and bone man that I occationally see driving around the local area. I managed to buy a bike for parts off the back of his cart before now but it wasn't cheap.

 

[Night Train]

Anyone know of any decent scrap yards/flea markets etc. in the Manchester/Stockport area where I might pick up some old cheap bike bits. I'm specifically after some forks and drop handlebars, condition and quality not really an issue. Hoping I might be able to find a beaten up old frame collecting dust in a market somewhere and pick it up for a couple of quid, but I don't really know where to go to look.

I've been to Smithfield market before and it's not a bad place to look, but it does tend to be more bulk tupperwear and cheap batteries than proper rummaging opportunities. I've also tried the local tip and a few Stockport scrap yards, but they said they rarely see bike parts. Any other ideas..? (everyone's going to say eBay now, right?!)

Cheers.

I have an old frame you can have. Might have a few other bits and pieces that might be of help.
Collect from Eccles.
Just PM me and we can sort something out.

 

[Canardly]

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