Sell to Us · Bicycles
Sell the bike that has hung in the garage since 1972.
Southern California is bicycle holy land twice over: the Stingray craze that swept these suburbs in the sixties, and BMX, which was invented in the dirt lots of this very region when kids started racing their Stingrays like motocross bikes. The machines of both eras hang in local garages by their wheels, quietly appreciating.
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Krates with the right paint and parts bring thousands, early BMX from the founding brands has a fierce collector market, and the balloon-tank cruisers of the forties and fifties remain the kings of barn finds. We buy them in every condition from showroom to spider-webbed, and we do the lifting.
Bikes we climb ladders for
Stingrays and Krates
Orange Krate, Lemon Peeler, Pea Picker, and every muscle bike of the banana-seat years.
Early BMX
Webco, Redline, Mongoose, and the founding frames of the sport this region invented.
Balloon tank bikes
Prewar and postwar Schwinn, Monark, and Colson cruisers with tanks, lights, and springers.
Lightweights and track
Paramounts, early road and track frames, and the lugged steel that matters.
Parts and literature
Original seats, wheels, tanks, dealer signs, and catalogs: the parts often fund the deal.
Original paint is the whole game
Bicycle value lives in the paint: an original-paint Krate with honest wear outsells a beautiful repaint every time, and a repaint can cut value by two-thirds. The same goes for seats, wheels, and tanks: original parts matter enormously. Touch nothing, inflate nothing, and let us see the bike exactly as the decades left it. We make bike calls across all of Southern California, and yes, we bring our own ladder.
A Recent Find
A 1940s Levi’s Type 1 jacket, sold to us by a former dealer who knew exactly what he had. We paid $12,000 in cash, the same day.
How it works
Call us.
A real conversation about what you have, no forms, no waiting.
We come to you.
We look at everything, at your pace. We know what we're seeing.
Cash offer, same visit.
A fair price on the spot, or a full estate sale run for you.
Common questions
How much can a kid’s old Stingray actually be worth?
Clean original Krates run well into four figures, with rare colors and years higher. Even rough originals carry real value for their parts. The banana seat your mother threatened to toss may be the best thing in the garage.
What early BMX brands should we look for?
Anything from the seventies founding era: frame brands, motocross-style parts, and race plates. Local race history, photos and trophies included, adds provenance collectors love.
The bike is rusty and the tires are flat. Still interested?
Absolutely: surface rust on original paint is patina, not ruin, and flat tires are irrelevant. Barn-find condition is a category we happily pay for.