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Check out the new Suntour Sprint pedals I recently had come my way. Sealed bearings on a nice chrome spindle. These pedals do not come factory with the Paramount toe clips, but this after-market accessory is a must for your pair. The enclosed toe box give your toes a snug, and protected fit while you’re sprinting ahead of the pack. Get yours when you can!
Yeah, Pedals!
No, these pedals are not new. Just pedals I bought off of a customer who brought his bike in for repair*. And that is what this post is about.
Whenever a bike gets hung in my repair stand, it isn’t an opportunity to rid the owner of it or any of it’s nice components. I don’t think it exactly professional to treat a customer’s bike as something that’s expendable merely for your own pleasure or collection. As if their bike is not valued by them, whether or not they themselves are aware of it’s “true” value. I’ve worked on scores of bikes whose owners were completely ignorant of what they had, admittedly a tempting situation. But it’s up to us to ingrain their bike’s value in them—get them to appreciate bikes more. They’ve come in to get their bike repaired, in order to ride it longer, if we are buying parts off their bike, how are they supposed to ride it?
* To be fair, I did get the above mentioned Suntour pedals from a customer’s bike—they’re a nice addition to my growing pedal collection. Is this hypocrisy? Not in my opinion, the caveat was this: the customer was intending on selling the entire bike at a yard sale. Had he not mentioned that fact, I would have kept my appreciation of the unique (to me) pedals as commentary only. I offered him a fair price with the inclusion of some replacement pedals for the bicycle’s debut at the yard sale—a pair of Low Fat Type ATB pedals. (Any idea what Low Fat Type pedals means?) Image link courtesy of Why Walk Pedicabs.
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if you ever have anyone in there with some shimano dx’s that were originally red and have since been painted black they’re mine! they were on a bmx bike stolen from my garage… but i’d be willing to buy anyones dx’s regardless of color… 9/16 of course.
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