montage said:
joe - photos of mine are up. Sounds like I need friends like you (and fossy!)
If your in a club, i can bet you that people will be there to help you out, you just have to know who to ask to see if they have bits.
I got given a frame, and all it was missing was the wheels! It had full mudguards, handlebars, brake levers, brakes, brake cables, chain, crankset, pedals, stem, seat pin, seat.
All thats left on that frame is the bottom bracket, is stripped everything else off it. The wheels i got given by two people in the club, who have a garage/shed full of cycle stuff they have just built up over the years, and when someone asks if they have something they usually have on lieing around.
I asked for a bolt one time, and one of the guys pulled this tin out which had cotter pins in, mech hangers and various other old bolts that he had built up over the many years he had been cycling.