Man, I really don't have much to gain by telling you this stuff. I'm in a sort of unique position where all the parts I accumulate can be used to upgrade bikes in videos, but a lot of people don't have that luxury. People in the industry have parts accumulate in their garages, and literally can't find something to do with them. This sounds like a great problem with an easy solution, but it's way more complicated. Imagine you write for some magazine, and now you have an eBay store with all the stuff you reviewed... That looks bad.

Almost anything you do with the parts creates a weird incentive structure, or could look bad if you run into the wrong person while handing them off—especially in small MTB towns where everyone knows each other.

So there are garages all over the world, indefinitely housing bike parts in various degrees of use. It feels normal when you've been doing it for years. But it's disgusting when viewed from the outside. There are exceptions, of course.

Generally, every party involved is a well intentioned human who loves bikes. There are liability issues, problems with giving away pre-production parts, and also plain old complacency when you have been doing it for years. The weird disorganized system that developed organically over time is the one to blame. I think putting this out there could start a discussion!

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