Charles Wahl

You get a much better deal on bike parts if you'll accept stuff that's been even slightly used. That being said, once in awhile I come across something that seems underappreciated, and I'm not averse to buying NOS then, certainly. I don't care about packaging in the least, though I do like the occasional manual or set of instructions, even if they're not necessary.

Brake levers are one of the most perishable of bike components, because of their "exposure" to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, both at home and on the road. That's a disincentive to mount these; but I did buy them for a particular project, and eventually they'll be put at risk.

JohnDThompson 

Got a few things:

Chombi1 

Speaking of NOS pedals.......



Stronglight PR300 Composite pista pedals
Chanced upon it on eBay about four years ago. Both the seller and I did not have any idea what they were, but I felt like they might be something unique so I did the BIN purchase.
I suspect these were made around the time Stronglight issued their Delta line, so around the mid to late 80's. Seems like not many were made as I have not seen these for sale since I got them.
The pedals are not marked with any branding unlike the other very few I have seen in the net that had the Stronglight S, crossed feather and three stars crest molded on to the pedal's composite bodies. I suspect they could be prototypes or beta examples given to teams or sales examples shown to dealers before full production as the box they came in were not branded either. The cage mounting screws are in aluminum, unlike the other examples I've seen which had cadmium plated steel screws.
Have not used them yet, and I don't now where they will end up on, but like many of the NOS items I had in my stash, they eventually find themselves into a build where they just feel to be the ideal component to use......

Drillium Dude 

Interesting that the front plate has a sort of double-curvature vice being flat. I almost wonder if the plates are inverted? I can't figure any reason whatsoever for that plate being anything but flat where the forward part of the shoe sole rests. Weird.

EDIT: Looking closer, I'm sure they're inverted - look at the dimension difference from the body to the top of the rear plate. It's about 1/4" in the back and only 1/8" in the front.

Cool pedals, tho - and anything but common.

DD

Chombi1 

That's how they came in the box, and I think that's the way the front plates were too when I saw a pic of another pair with a Stronglight branded box at one time......I'll check on it to make sure.....

Drillium Dude 

Looking closely one can see the mounting holes are not centered in the plate. It's now obvious to me that if you were to remove and flip them over the front and rear plate tops would end up in the same (correct) plane. If you were to try to use them now, the toe would be sloping down towards the front of the pedal.

I guess the guy who put that pair together had a hangover, hadn't had his coffee yet or it was Friday afternoon

DD

Chombi1 

Found the pic of the other pair I've seen out there in the net:

Looks like the front plate really mounts that way..... must be just the way I took my pics make it look like it is upside down.
Notice how this one has the Stronglight crest on the composite pedal body. and mine doesn't.

non-fixie 

Waiting for the right project:



For a bike with two front wheels:

realsteel

These are Campagnolo Sport steel, three-armed cranks from the early 1970s:


Campagnolo only made these for two or three years. I think they are some of the most beautiful cranks ever made:

The Golden Boy 

I've got a few NOS/NIB things that are waiting for the right machines to put them on.

I've bought and used several NIB things- The XC Pro FD that's on my Trek 400 Elance was one that I had scored for next to nothing, and I was proud, but apprehensive of putting it on.

malcala622

I love these shimano stems. NOS and don't want to install it.

gearbasher

My C-record high flange hubs. I could kick myself in the a$$ because the guy I bought them from had 10 sets and I only bought one. That was about 15 years ago. I could have tripled my investment.

realsteel

Beautiful hubs @gearbasher! I can understand your regret: even used Sheriff Star hubs go for a small fortune now.

Here's something you don't see very often, brake anchors:


They were designed to reduce flex in caliper brakes:




... and they apparently really do work.

randyjawa 

I have a few NOS/NIB items but nothing that special. However, Lady Luck sent me a wee smile yesterday when I picked up this NOS set of canvas an leather panniers. Sadly, I don't even need them but I could not pass...

ThermionicScott 

I'm of both minds. Yes, bike parts (or anything else that ends up being collected) were made to be used and not squirreled away for appreciation/display/etc, BUT parts that get used get worn out and tend to stop existing at some point. NOS/NIB survives to the present day because it never got used, so we get to see what these parts and original packaging looked like new. While I have no interest in buying NOS/NIB stuff, I get a real kick out of seeing it when it surfaces. Like stepping into a time machine.

realsteel

These are Strata handlebars still wrapped in their original brown paper.


They were posted sometime during the reign of George VI who was king from 1936 until his death in 1952.


A nice bit of cycling history frozen in time. I'm not even going to unwrap these.

francophile 

Not like anyone would do backflips over this but this was one of the coolest things I picked up recently that was truly NOS/NIP. If only it were easily possible to swap the red button off with a silver Crit button



@bikemig that Mavic FD is awesome. I searched the last couple months for a clamp-on model to round out a set on a bike I picked up with levers/RD/crankset. I broke down this month and purchased a braze-on one and an adapter.

bikemig 

That's a very cool FD.

My PR 10 is getting close to being done. It's not entirely French but it's close (other than the hubs and the seatpost). It has taken me a while to hunt the parts down for this:

https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...good-ugly.html

Yeah I really want to track down a mavic 851 RD for this 1978 Trek TX 900:

https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...-tx-900-a.html

francophile 

Cool, but cheap, and Delrin Would look great on your PR10 if you wanted to trade for that Mavic and some cash

Here's the bike I was hunting for.

gearbasher

How about a Sturmey Archer era Brooks Pro.



And an NOS late 70's Guerciotti with the wrong seat tube decals.

Chombi1 

Actually, there's a few Simplex derailleurs with Delrin parts that sell for significant money these days, specially if NOS. Like the SLJ 4000, that was actually used in modified (drilliumed) form by the Peugeot pro team on their Peugeot PY10FCs. They used it because it was super weenie weight through the use of the Delrin pivots and all other parts in aluminum, including the jockey cage jockey wheel axles and even the two main pivot bolts.

ryansu

Not even sure why I have this FD other than boredom and a very low bid on Ebay that came up a winner I know its not fancy by Campy standards

[IMG]IMG_1809 by Ryan Surface, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]IMG_1810 by Ryan Surface, on Flickr[/IMG]

francophile 

Totally. If I'm not mistaken, the only difference between this NOS Prestige I have and the Criterium which came on way higher-end bikes like the Gitane TdF is Prestige has a red button on the side versus the silver one. Lots of Delrin-based stuff out there on lots of high-end bikes. Lots of them in a landfill somewhere because the plastic cracked also

Honestly if it weren't for LJ's narrowminded (full-on/virtually no exceptions) adoption of plastic, I think we'd still see his stuff on bikes today under the same name.

gearbasher

OK, this is my last post to this thread. Only because it really shows the depth of my psychosis. Even I was shocked when I realized how many I had.

Cinelli Mod. 66-38 (26.4)

LittleGinseng 

Stunning!