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.

 

[raleighnut]

Aye a fair bit of 'clutter' here but having said that when I rebuilt my Raleigh 'City' 3 speed I changed the wheels from 26" chromed steel to 700c aluminium I was able to fit shorter reach Weinmann brake calipers (instead of the twisted steel abominations that Raleigh passed off as brakes) from my shed and fit the Shimano 'dynahub' from Maz's Dawes that was redundant after converting that to an electric front hub motor at no cost (well other than having the wheels built up)
Most of the clutter will come in useful one day but if discarded you can bet within a couple of months it will be needed.

 

[wafter]

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

E.

Hopefully it's the stash that fortifies me against future mechanical issues... but there's always that danger. I'm confident all the brake pads, tubes and tyres will get used eventually... some of the other bits maybe not so much!

 

[lostinthought]

I have a Mavic 851 rear mech which has waited for years to find its new home on something or other (random internet picture below, mine is buried somewhere). I bought it new from the glass cabinet in the lbs, saved up and everything

and a handful of 60's - 70's Campag mechs also "somewhere". In that same mythical place is a pair of 80's (?) Campag Centaur brake levers from some mountain bike I had. They weigh a ton, but are an interesting curiosity.

(That mech image above is from Disraeli gears btw which I'm sure everyone here knows but lets drop a link just in case, easy way for bike nerds to lose an evening)

https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site/mavic_851_2nd_style_derailleur.html

Unfortunately most of the bike bits I somehow still have -the above excepted- are a bunch of tat, which could never be combined to create a functional bicycle... though I could possibly create something like Johnny Cash's car in One Piece at a Time : )

 

[Punkawallah]

Lots. Spare tyre sets for the Galaxy (Michelin World Tour, no longer available in 27”), spare tour freewheels for the Galaxy (Suntour 14-32/34, no longer available), pairs of tyres in various sizes, pairs of wheels ditto, couple of stems with drop bars and two-way levers, couple pannier racks, gold mudguards from a Motobecane. Plus the ‘consumables’ box for the Galaxy - blocks, cables, chainring, pedals etc, and a parts box and an inner tube box.
But then, I fix bikes and the next frame that comes along will take some of the spares to make it go.

 

[mickle]

I cleared the garage out and took a car load of old shite down my local bike recycling place a few months back and got a £100 credit for it all. It's an odd feeling wandering in there now and seeing buts and pieces of it hanging on the wall!