Stuff I can't seem to throw away, not good enough to use. For example:

1. The Cro-Lux rims that came on my UO8. Still just as bright and shiny as when new. Just as straight too. They've been hanging in my garage for decades. If I ever restore the UO8 to its "former glory" I'll want them. But why would I do that? I ride it as a beater/commuter and it is too good for that to turn back into a bike-boom bike.

2. The high-flange Normandy hubs from those same wheels. They are currently strung with Fiamme Yellow Label clincher rims with Conti Ultra tires. They aren't worthy of the expense of better tires, but they don't deserve the curse of those tires either.

3. Those Fiamme rims and a Weinmann of the same vintage. Decent rims but not hooked bead.

4. The steel Nervar crank w/52T-36T rings from that same UO8. It's not so heavy as to make it unwanted, but for most of its life that bike has sported a Sugino Maxy upgrade with compact double rings. And I don't have good success with cotter pins.

5. An ARX RD that came off a bike being thrown away by a neighbor. I rebuilt the bike with upgraded drivetrain.

6. Various turkey-wing brake levers, mostly Weinmann or DiaCompe I think.

7. Various okay-but-not-great French BB cups, and a smattering of English cups too.

8. The original wheels from a Motobecane Nomade I bought for my sweetie a few zillion years ago. (Okay, she was -25 at the time. ) Solid axle, rims a notch down from the Cro-Lux. But straight.

9. The steel crank from that Nomade, not as nice as the Nervar from the UO8 though.

10. The Unicanitor that came with the Masi. I don't know for certain that it was original. I sure can't ride it, and the bike was trashed when I got it so all my mods (style-correct, BTW) were justified. It is just another mathom to be gifted from one Hobbit house to another.

11-N. I could even throw in a frame or two into that mix. Like the UO8 itself, or the Bertin.

There's lots of this kind of stuff. What to do with it??? What would you do with it?