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Used Bikes

  in Austin, TX

How to buy a used bike

Check out our guide for how to buy an inexpensive bike for basic transportation.

 

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Yellow Bike Project

The Yellow Bike Project often has used bikes for sale..

 Bike Shops that carry used bikes:

• Bicycle Sport Shop: See their 3 locations.
• Clown Dog Bikes: 2821 San Jacinto Blvd., (477-4221)
• East Side Pedal Pushers: 2415 E. 5th St. (826-3414)
• Waterloo Cycles: 2815 Fruth (right off 29th & Guadalupe) (47-CYCLE)
     see their used inventory, below
• Austin Bicycle Salvage of Round Rock is closed.

Thrift Stores

• Salvation Army, Thrift Town, and Goodwill usually have used bikes
  See a list of thrift shops.
  

FrankenBike

Monthly swap meet of bike parts.

Used bicycles at Waterloo Cycles

Waterloo Cycles ships to the 48 states for $60. Just click to order.   For questions, write to Waterloo, not to us.

Our Free Classified Ads

Post your ad on the web forum and it will show up here automatically in 30 minutes.
Be sure to put "FOR SALE" in the title or it won't get listed here.

FOR SALE - 1980 Raleigh Technium Competition 531 - $150 (posted 5/20)

FOR SALE: 2021 Fairdale Lookfar--$400 (posted 4/3)

Fuji Auric 27.5 1.1 Mountain Bike for sale (posted 6/16)

2016 Santa Cruz 5010 CC XT/Carbon Wheels Size Small For Sale (posted 11/25)

Jamis Trail X1 For Sale in Austin (posted 4/11)

FOR SALE - $700.00 Women's Felt ZW5 (posted 4/13)

29'er for sale 1700.00 (posted 11/15)

Bikes, bicycles for sale (posted 9/2)

German Road Bike for Sale (posted 7/14)

For sale: Tour Easy, Long Wheelbase Recumbent (posted 6/24)

Other Online Ads

• Craigslist classifieds
• Austin Cycling Association classifieds
• Austin Chronicle bike classifieds
• Austin American-Statesman Classifieds
• Used recliners (Recumbents) on BikeRoute
• Used bikes on eBay
  
  

Bike Theft & Recovery

The UT-Austin police will stamp your ID number onto your bike for free on Wednesdays from 9:00-4:00 in front of Gregory Gym at 21st & Speedway. You don't have to be a student; it's open to everyone. In addition to stamping your license number, they'll put a registration sticker on the down tube. Sure, the registration sticker would be easy for a thief to remove, but the point is that when thieves even SEE the registration sticker, they may avoid stealing your bike because they know that it's registered and has your ID number stamped into it, so it'll be harder to sell. Note that some cyclists are wary about having their bikes registered, because then if they get harassed by the police for any reason, the police could ID them with the state ID # etched into their bike. We have a separate article about bike theft and recovery.

Last update: Oct. 2017