Originally Posted by
fettsvenska
The best surprise I ever got from an old bike was the bottom bracket. I bought an old beat up Fuji as an impulse buy for something like $20. I get it home and start to overhaul things a little bit and notice that the bottom bracket requires some special tool that I don't have. Turns out to be a Phil Wood.
Me too! I found a discarded Campania frame that, as it happens, was their top line offering, and so was specced with a Phil BB. If I had encountered the bike earlier in its life, I might have also snagged the Phil hubs with which it was specced, but no such luck. I am saving the Phil BB for a different build.