Is it truly worth the effort...
 

...to garbage pick and drag home this clapped out POS Favorit rust bucket just to reef off the clamp-on Suntour ratcheting shifters? It was so corroded that nothing budged except the shifters and the forks. The cool girder stem was slammed down hard but what the heck, I loosened the nut and voila,it was fully lubed and slipped right out. The levers are cool looking as well. I prised one QR from a wheel just cuz I could. This is kinda pathetic behaviour but I like it anyway.
Now to get the stem and bars free from the steel shim.
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I would've done the same thing. Diggin that stem

I suspect lots of folks on this forum would have done the same.

Does it have the cool / ugly leather saddle? And the knockoff Racer brakes? There's something about those Favorit bikes, no originality but I like the stylish imitations of other stuff...

Hah! I can relate. A couple of weeks ago on trash night, I saw that someone down the street had put out three bicycle frames and a barrel full of forks, fenders, and bars, among other steel bits. I grabbed the frames, four forks (hoping that they'd match the frames), and two sets of fenders. I've fiddled with the frames a bit: one seems relatively well made and needed a stuck seat post and buggered crank arm removed (which I did), and it's my size. Another is a small Motobecane of some sort, and a third is a Univega Nuovo Sport that someone started to strip the paint from and then stopped:

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I really didn't need the projects, but, then again, winter will be here soon.

Nothing like free parts...

YOu shoulda seen the Raleigh I brought home last month. Not even a Notingham. I think I can use a part or two off of it.

That's the bike...literally everything branded Favorit but the brakes/crank/hub are way too far gone to salvage. Glad I'm not alone in my obsessions. The Usual Suspects are responding here ;)

A C&V man gotta do what ya' gotta do! :p

I'm just as guilty! :D

That feeling when you envy other posters, 'cause their neighborhoods have cooler trash. Of course, in this university town there's a mini deluge just before Christmas break, and major picking opportunities at the end of the academic year and when leases expire in August.

A friend of mine commutes on a Favorit. He's sad that he can't keep it original every time a component wears out, but keeping it original would be very expensive.