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

[Hover Fly]

Over about 90 years since father first started cycling family fly has accumulated:
3 old Sturmey hubs of various types, one in an old wooden rim, with a matching front, pa’s racing wheels from the 30s.
More old Cinelli or 3T handlebars and stems than I can count (I change them every few years)
Huge quantities of odd cranks
about a dozen worn out pedals
Most types of clipless pedal, all tried and rejected
Masses of biscuit tins full of old nuts, cones, bolts, axles, etc
What you got?

 

[biggs682]

Loads of stuff that one day I need to sort out.
Some stuff is older than me others are not.

 

[OldShep]

Don’t ask 🫣
i look at it all and think I’m going to sort through it all…..then I find something else to do. 😊

 

[EckyH]

Not here yet, but one day - hopefully far in the future - the more or less original "Diamant Modell 109" (between 1956 and 1964) ladies sport bike of my mother and the slightly modified "Diamant Modell 67" (latest production date of the frame: 1954) of my father.

In other words: the cluttering is outsourced. Yet.

E.

 

[wafter]

A few boxes of uninteresting modern toss..

 

[Rusty Nails]

No junk. All the boxes of bicycle bits down the shed will come in very handy one day, I am sure.

The trouble is my wife doesn't have my vision.

 

[EckyH]

A few boxes of uninteresting modern toss..

Is that the "clutter modern stuff today so that it may become the old stuff of future decades" approach?

E.

 

[Big John]

I've always prided myself on knowing where all my junk is but over the last 12 months I've accumulated so much junk that I haven't got a clue where anything is. The danger now is that I'll buy a component, thinking I don't have one in my junk, only to find six of them in a few months time in some box or other 😬

I could open a shop selling rims and completed wheels along with saddles, hundreds of spokes and sundry rear and front mechs. 2025 will be the year I begin a huge clear out. Just like 2020, 2021, etc, etc........

 

[All uphill]

I'm not a hoarder, having grown up with one.

I have a 40 hole Sturmey Archer hub, dated 1952, and a couple more hubs from the 1980s.

Rear derailleurs do seem to stick to me, I have at least seven including a new Sun Race M90 (where did that come from?).

 

[Dogtrousers]

I have a Benelux front mech somewhere. It's a really nice thing with enamel painted name. I'll have a dig around and post a photo if I can find it.