Fifty Plus (50+) - Cycle Dementia aka CM disorder

I have decided I have a specialized form of cycle dementia. My bike parts have gone missing without leave. It's getting very frustrating.


I bought a Kestrel Talon frame and put the small plastic bag of cable guides in a build box along with a stem. I moved the stem while clearing out old boxes. I'm now in my 4th hour of searching while contacting Kestrel and multiple LBS for replacements.
I had a new hard to find Octalink BB (unused because a build required an Italian thread version.) I bought a 48/38 Ritchey Cross crankset requiring an Octalink BB for my mostly Ritchey equipped Breakaway Cross bike. So far I've found square bottom and an ISIS I don't remember buying - but no Octalink BB
I bought a fork crown mounted cable guide to solve some fork shudder. I decided to try mounting it again (either drilling a mount hole or rigging an angle bracket). After searching the current projects bin, my work bench, and the brake parts drawer - gone, missing! Fortunately I bought two and found the unopened one.
My original Magicshine light head and rectangular battery pack has been missing for weeks.


It's getting bad - bleeding into other categories - tools, 1.5T hard drives, and others I've forgotten already.

robtown, I'm still looking for a SunTour long cage derailleur I 'carefully' put away. My crit bike is wearing a set of handlebars I don't remember buying. I have a 600 crankset that I would've sworn were on a bike I sold. I have two sets of brakes that don't have pads... the list goes on.

Brad

Well, the memory is the second thing to go, can't for the life of me remember what the first thing is.

It's probably just a poltergeist. In the future buy 2 of everything and keep one set in the garage or outbuilding away from the mischief maker.

Weird, isn't it? I'll put something somewhere I'm sure I'll remember --- naturally, that wouldn't be the most obscure out-of-the way crevice or a hole 10 feet beneath the house somewhere in the back 40--- so why is it nowhere to be found in the top-20 most likely places I look??? It's like these things literally vaporize when I'm not looking.

AJ, I like your theory!

Brad

Do you have a Son-in Law or other relation that also rides?

If so--Look on their bike and you may find it. Thats where I find all my spares that have gone missing.

In my house it's the missing tools... Somewhere there is a tool gremlin.

Weird, isn't it? I'll put something somewhere I'm sure I'll remember --- naturally, that wouldn't be the most obscure out-of-the way crevice or a hole 10 feet beneath the house somewhere in the back 40--- so why is it nowhere to be found in the top-20 most likely places I look??? It's like these things literally vaporize when I'm not looking.

Yen, you are a girl I can identify with. Sometimes I do the insane thing and that is to put something away in a "special place" for "safe keeping". It is the curse of death. I will then find the item about 12 years later in pristine condition sleeping happily away in its safe sanctum.

I had the same issue recently.... but now I can't remember what it was I was looking for.:D It may be best never to put anything away.....

I blame the kids... of course they haven't been around for some time, but I still blame them.

I know I put two socks in the dryer, why only one comes out I have no idea.

In my house it's the missing tools... Somewhere there is a tool gremlin.

Around my house missing tools can usually be found at one of my kid's homes:mad: I started keeping a list on the side of the fridge of borrowed tools that never seem to make their way back home......

Whenever I lose something, it's always in the last place I look. I should have looked there first, obviously!

KIss of death, put some thing away for safe keeping and it's like hiding it from myself. I just found one of two hand held crank am/fm/weatherband/led flash lights with a red flashing light that i put away 9 years ago? I looked all over for it, thought i left it in Fresno for some reason. Latly its coupons that are in a safe spot, so safe by the time i find them again there out of date. Now i have hit upon a plan to store whatever in a clear plastic tub with a lid as my safe tub. Now if i can just remember to use it. It goes on......

Do you have a Son-in Law or other relation that also rides?

If so--Look on their bike and you may find it. Thats where I find all my spares that have gone missing.

This made me laugh! One son, two son-in-laws and hand tools are the items most likely to go missing, but a pneumatic cut off tool has shown up and nobody knows where it came from... someone else's son?

Brad

When I finally find the thing I put in a special place so that it would be easy to locate, I put it back in the first place I looked when the search began.

Sounds like a cyclist specific strain of CRS.