Fitness equipment from 鈥渁 major gym franchise鈥� will be auctioned online from a warehouse in Surrey this week.

Bids for close to 300 cardio machines will be sought for an online-only auction held at the Newton location of Able Auctions, 13557 77th Ave., on Thursday (July 23) at 9:30 a.m. Details are posted at .

The commercial-grade equipment is from closed locations of Steve Nash Fitness World, Able Auctions president Jeremy Dodd confirmed.

Under new ownership, the fitness company is being restructured.

鈥淭here are somewhere between 250 and 300 pieces of equipment (for auction),鈥� Dodd said. 鈥淩ight now it鈥檚 all cardio. Strength (equipment) is going to come but not quite yet. There are different owners of the equipment, different leasing companies that owned all this.

鈥淚鈥檝e never seen this much (equipment) like this before, it鈥檚 an awful lot,鈥� Dodd added.

During the pandemic, Able Auctions encourages people to bid and make payments online.

鈥淚t鈥檚 gone really smoothly,鈥� Dodd said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 definitely a buyer鈥檚 market, you know, so there are good buys right now. As far as the process goes, it鈥檚 quite seamless and smooth doing it this way. , we get going at usually 9:30 in the morning on a given day, and we go through the items one at a time and sell it all off 鈥� just like a live auction but with no auctioneer.鈥�

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Meantime, the company鈥檚 Langley location is where dozens of animatronic dinosaurs will be auctioned. On Aug. 6, Able Auctions will be selling off more than 50 life-sized animatronic dinosaurs, along with hundreds of fossils, more animatronic equipment, lighting, and speakers.

The animatronic dinosaurs include famous species such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and velociraptors, but also more obscure species, such as ouranosaurus, kentrosaurus, dilophosaurus, amargasaurus and a flying pterosaur, which was related to dinosaurs but part of a different lineage.

A display of all the items is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with masks mandatory, at Able Auctions鈥� Langley location, 19757 92A Ave.

with a file from Matthew Claxton

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