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Old 10-22-06 | 02:37 PM
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;

On a tangential topic, I never toss any frame or bicycle without salvaging nuts, bolts, fittings, dust caps, lockrings, bearing cups and races, etc. This packrat habit has saved me on countless occasions, including:

1) My 1981 Bianchi came with an aluminum BB lockring, which requires a full-circle 6-prong tool. Using my trusty curved hook from Sugino, I managed to nick a couple of the ring's slots severely. I replaced the (Italian-threaded) lockring with the steel one I had salvaged from my 1962 Bianchi after that frame finally failed.

2) When I bought the Capo in January of this year, it had all of its original parts, except one Agrati pedal dust cap. You guessed it -- when the original Agrati pedals from my very first Capo fell apart, I saved a dust cap.

3) When my son broke the upper headset race on his Specialized Hardrock mountain bike, I was able to substitute an upper cup-and-race set from my junk box, taken from a mountain bike frame the kids had found in a canyon by the freeway.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
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