What will happen to your bikes when you are gone?

[Ming the Merciless]

Ours will clutter up the house for a while, then the twins will send them for scrap as the market for second-hand steel frames (aka classic) will have died as did those who remember them from their youth.

I wouldn’t be so sure with hopefully Peak car being soon and rise of the bike over next 30-40 years

 

[Rusty Nails]

The scrappy comes around roughly twice every day so I doubt they'll last past my funeral.

 

[JaseVermin]

burry it with me

 

[Accy cyclist]

If I don't sell them before I die and out live my brother-in-law and sister, the housing association will just dump them along with my kayak all my fishing gear, tools ect

Just like me numbnuts. After a few days of trying to find a next of kin, they'll probably give up and send their home emptying team round and chuck everything on the back of the wagon. I have three haven't been ridden in three and a half years bikes. One would go for a decent price, with the other two not so much, so I might sell the best one and maybe give the other two to someone who'll make good use and look after them.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Mine will be artfully arranged along with my corpse in a Viking longboat before being cast out to sea followed by a flaming arrow. Either that or the kids will have them 😄

 

[Drago]

I'm not all that bothered if I'm honest.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Mine will be artfully arranged along with my corpse in a Viking longboat before being cast out to sea followed by a flaming arrow. Either that or the kids will have them 😄

Or a small dingy which will spring a small leak and sink in the local paddling pool and the match for the flaming arrow will get blown out by the wind.

 

[Baldy]

What a cheerful thread!

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

Some of the posts have had me laughing 🤣. My misses will more than likely outlive me so if she can put up with me till I die my bike will be on a one way trip to the local dump site

 

[fossyant]

Some of the posts have had me laughing 🤣. My misses will more than likely outlive me so if she can put up with me till I die my bike will be on a one way trip to the local dump site

I think my wife will probably put all my bikes on a huge pile and blow them up. Ah well, I won't be here !

 

[postman]

Already spoken to my son he will take them.Mind you i hope now to get a few more years out of them.

 

[Gillstay]

My best bike is slightly too large so that it will be good for my son later.

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

Nobody got one then ?

I already lobbed it on the skip in preparation for my demise…

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

Since two of my bikes were salvaged from the scrap heap it seems only fair that they should end up there… kind of re-recycling.

 

[Moon bunny]

I wouldn’t be so sure with hopefully Peak car being soon and rise of the bike over next 30-40 years

But will people be interested in obsolete old bikes with hard to get parts when modern composites will be so much better? It's only a matter of time before some enterprising manufacturer branches out from number-chasing performance and realises there is a market for high quality utility bikes.