seats, wheels and tires can easily be resold. different sizes will bring different prices and occasionally you come across an old bike that looks like crap but is worth money.

cheap plastic pedals and hard rubbery grips and crappy looking suspension are usually clues of a walmart bike
'if you see nice looking logos and time spent on the machining, it could be a bike worth reseling for a couple to a lot of bucks on craigslist



i cut the spokes with an angle grinder, throw alum rims in the alum pile and then sharpen the spoke heads and pass them on to my friends as pokies. they all have a bunch of useful pokies, now