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Learning, Sharing, and Teaching => Mini Money Mustaches => Topic started by: aneel on August 01, 2017, 06:38:15 AM
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Our 4 year old son seems to have outgrown his 12" starter bike and I'm in the market for a 14-16" bike, we're looking on craigslist, but are there other MMM approved sources for purchasing kids' bikes?
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I have bought bikes at garage sales, Goodwill, Play It Again Sports and thrift stores. Another idea is the nextdoor app. It seems people are always selling kids bikes.
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Nextdoor
Thrift stores
We've been fortunate to get a few for free; and DW has bought a few for $5-10 each from the thrift store. even if it's not fully operable, I take it and piece together a working bike.
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Decent 16" bikes do turn up at Goodwill. I also got one from Craigslist. Unless your 4 year old is giant, chances are that some 16" bikes will be too big and some will work, so make sure he's with you.
We also just got 2 refurbished bikes from our local bike coop. We are a low-income family and our coop gives away age-appropriate bikes, fixed up by volunteers, to kids from self-defined low-income families who attend a bike rodeo. Awesome program!
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I've just upgrade my kids 12 inch and 16 inch bikes to 16 inch and 20 inch models.
I ended up buying both bikes from the Facebook market place.
I also sold the 12 in bike on the Facebook market place. Between buying and selling it'll be costing me just $15 per bike to move up a size.
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Where are you located? Swing by my garage. It seems to be a magnet for people to dump their kids bikes.