I'm going thru a massive reorg of my shop/disaster area:



Everything but the top shelf is bicycle related...

Plus, in a dark corner, long forgotten:



It's heavy, and I've not yet investigated the contents (which, of course, may possibly bare no relationship to what's written on the box).

Cool. Just as long as the "junk" to be revealed is bike-related.

(This website rated G)

Pre-announcing a sale?

I just bet he's got every last piece you need to finish your new Merckx build in that box...

His bike list suggests his 'junk' pre-dates my 80s needs.
OP - you have lot's of boxes - it's Xmas time. Open a few for us to see and giggle over.


The EM is just about finished, given another BFer's expertise.

I wonder how many bikes we could build if we took all of the boxes of bike parts and all of the frames sitting on our shelves and mated them up.

Let me know when you are ready and I will give you my address for shipping a non-coaster brake Sturmey Archer hub. I'll also accept a generator hub, if you have those to get ride of.

Good luck with your cleanup project!

Next build, hmmmmnn.
Phil, anything? English.
Modolo black?
Zeus front hub? 32h or 36.
Shiny 5/6 freewheels? Oro?

If Sturmey Archer is accurate, you can send that junk here. :-)

I'll make a deal as I can't spend a lot of time on this. Bottom row is 'A', second 'B', etc. Boxes are '1', '2', etc, left being '1'. Take a vote, bottom left box being 'A1'. Whichever box gets the most votes i'll empty out and provide a photo of the contents. It varies from the odd toe strap to fancy Maillard hubs, to a ti freewheel, to Pletscher (sp?) racks to Brooks saddles to Moulton parts, to the odd Campag item. We could go one step further, once the box is selected, guess as to what might be in it.

Oh, it's very heavy... We can vote on that too, just type 'SA'.

I see Raleigh Team tire covers

I am voting SA then. lol

Could any of that junk possibly be classified as "crap"?

door #2

Of course, but I'm not at all certain I can live by the rules, and I already have so much 'crap' I can't see exposing my shop to even more. Besides, by the time I'd figured out what to keep, and what to send I'd be banned for life.

I too could use the Sturmey Archer sandblaster kit, Ed. I've been needing to blast some SA IGH hubs for a long time and that looks like the pefect tool. Do you do rentals?

Coincidentally, I've been doing a semi-massive reorganization too. The dozen boxes-O-crap that live under the stairs in the basement.
Some good crap, like old bike parts, and some so-so crap, like my old Zap comix and hundreds of old photos, most of which got tossed.
I did find the old 8 X 10 sepia toned portraits of my wife's grand parents that we've been looking for for as long as we've lived here. Fourteen years. Thought they disappeared into the ether. Turns out it was only the gaping maw of the dungeon stairs. She'll be psyched when she gets home late tonight from China and finds them matted and framed, on the wall.

At least it's in boxes.

If I were back in PA, I'd have a sandblasting connection. If you want, I can see if I can persuade my son to do some.

I was just yo'kin, Zorro, but thanks.

I wouldn't know an IGH hub if it bit me on the arse.

LOL, I'll let you know.

Let's see, a college psych/bio text - in the recycle pile. Some other book, I don't recollect, also. But, hey, I have a ton of all bikey mags/newspapers, etc. Maybe I'll bring them to Jim's ride if anyone is interested. But, the most exciting item, which, if I'd remembered it, I'd have been looking everywhere for it, is a brand new (35ish year old) sauna heater. Still in the original box. I couldn't imagine what it was (It was wrapped in a plastic bag.) Crazy. How about an original FuzzBuster, with all it's original packaging, manual, etc. Getting back to bike stuff, not in photo, some nifty stands made by Dick Allen (Allen bike racks). Jam them into the ground, and then they will hold your bike. And a vinyl TI Raleigh gear bag. Which reminds me, but I'd better not put a photo of it up, people will no doubt swoon, and I wouldn't want to feel guilty because I caused people to swoon...

And we have one vote, I see.

[MENTION=368671]Ed.[/MENTION] Just bring a few of those boxes to the Bedford Train Station next weekend and we'll help you disperse the contents. No wrapping, boxing nor shipping. Just stand back a bit so the elbows don't smack you as we dive in.

I'll design some fashion accessories I could make with a few hundred old toe straps. Beverage coasters outta 26T cogs. OK? Bottle openers from spent chain rings. Pencil holders from old FDs. Oh, never mind, no body has pencils any more, huh. Smart phone dash board cradles from rusty bottle cages? Holiday candle holders from drop bars.

Uhhhmmm..........
Maybe Alexi Grewal or Nelson Vails might be hiding in one of those boxes???......

Sturmey Archer and B3