What old cycling junk (or valuable collector’s pieces) have you got cluttering up the place?

[Rhythm Thief]

Five boxes of assorted bits, including shifters, brake calipers, derailleurs, no end of chainrings, brake levers, bottom brackets... all kinds of stuff
Six complete framesets.
A whole shed full of wheels, mostly in wheel sets but not always, waiting for a build.
Various wheel rims and hubs, waiting for me to need them enough to buy spokes and build them up.
Three forks.
A load of pannier racks.
And finally, quite a few new bits that I've bought with a particular project in mind, put to one side for a rainy day and am now unable to locate.

 

[oldandslow]

I don't rush to adopt the latest technology. I took years to go indexed with gears. I'm currently mainly on 9-speed. I get annoyed by the thing where shops look pityingly at you when you ask for parts for ten-year-old bikes. As a result, I tend to pick up spare hubs, derailleurs and the like that are going for modest prices and "might come in handy". I now have the contents of a small, but old-fashioned, bike shop in my loft.

 

[biggs682]

I went in the garage tonight to get a bike ouyt of storage this afternoon and found a 27" wheel with a 49 hole sturmey archer ASC 3 speed fixed hub i didn't realise i had

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I don't rush to adopt the latest technology. I took years to go indexed with gears. I'm currently mainly on 9-speed. I get annoyed by the thing where shops look pityingly at you when you ask for parts for ten-year-old bikes. As a result, I tend to pick up spare hubs, derailleurs and the like that are going for modest prices and "might come in handy". I now have the contents of a small, but old-fashioned, bike shop in my loft.

Exactly this. I like 9 speed and have no desire whatever to join the arms race towards 13 speed, or whatever it is we're being told our bikes are inadequate without. I would sell some of my stuff, but I know that sooner or later I'll find a use for it.

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

I sold the Norwegian Blue, but I’ve got a slug…

no…it doesn’t talk.

 

[ren531]

I have something like 12 frames 25plus wheels loads of box's of bits and many bikes all ready built up and about 7or 8 wheels with various hub gears ,virtually all of it is low end cheap vintage stuff all waiting for me to come up with the next project and even if I do nothing with it it gives me enormous pleasure just looking at it and it's potential.

 

[biggs682]

Looks like my fascination for orange Dutch bikes has finally beaten me

 

[iandg]

I've still got my Campag Peanut Butter Wrench from my late 70s/early 80s track racing days

I've used the same Shimano Dura Ace side pulls on the same frame (1977 Raleigh Professional) since 1979

Don't use them but have a pair of Assos Pedals in the cellar. What I don't understand is that they're listed as 1986-87 and I was racing on them in 1981 (probably 1980 too).

Still got a few 1970s Campag Nouvo Record bits, a Campag pump adaptor and some Cinelli IA stems and 66(?) bars

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I've had a bit of a sort through some of my boxes of crap. This lot is destined for eBay when I can be arsed to list it all.

 

[Punkawallah]

I've had a bit of a sort through some of my boxes of crap. This lot is destined for eBay when I can be arsed to list it all.

Any Suntour amongst it?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Any Suntour amongst it?

No, it's mostly Shimano 7 and 8 speed stuff.

 

[Punkawallah]

No, it's mostly Shimano 7 and 8 speed stuff.

OK, thanks.

 

[prestonhere]

I have something like 12 frames 25plus wheels loads of box's of bits and many bikes all ready built up and about 7or 8 wheels with various hub gears ,virtually all of it is low end cheap vintage stuff all waiting for me to come up with the next project and even if I do nothing with it it gives me enormous pleasure just looking at it and it's potential.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I've still got my old neon orange Saracen Pylon8 in bits in the garage, not been ridden for at least 13 years!
Was a steal from Rutland Cycles Ebay store in 2008 iirc, £300 for an Alfine 8 cruiser hybrid, swapped out the rigid alloy fork for some Wiggle Recon Race forks which got sold after I discovered a nasty shear ~75% around the seat tube near the top tube junction ~13 years ago. Gutted as I'd have loved to have seen how it rode when I was a much stronger cyclist '17 to autumn '22.

My 11 year old Voodoo Wazoo fatbike is down there too, was brilliant at getting me cycling again after my bike RTA just before Xmas '13 and it was fun grabbing bargain bits to lighten it, got it down to ~10.2Kg when using FatNotFat 29er wheels and decent tyres.
Gutting though, the driveside crank sheared through the pedal threads on my way to work ~5 years ago and during the parts crisis of early covid pandemic finding a new crank was a hopeless task. Hoping one day I might find a replacement crank and get that one back on the road.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I was given these.

A bit of fettling and ....