Drove 10 hours round trip today to visit a good friend and help him sell some stuff. This haul is about 2% of what he has left. It’s going to take awhile to go through and list. Not sure where to start. The milk crate is all Campy hubs and skewers.

Have to ask, "Any 40 hole rear hubs???"

I’ll check tomorrow when I start going through stuff

Thank you !

You did use the words "help him sell"!!

Holy Christmas...my GAD is spiking looking at it. Lots of fun stuff there though.

This is just the beginning. The great vintage dump is eventual, there are basements and sheds filled to the brim with old gear which was top quality back in the day. As most of those hoarders are approaching their estimated life expectancy the discount bin at the local bicycle coop are going to have amazing pickings.

I pride myself that I unloaded my gear as I upgraded over the past almost half century of passionately participating in the sport. Yet I still have crazy amounts of leftover equipment. Numerous legacy wheelsets including a set of Campagnolo high flange 32H tied and soldered to Fiamme Red Label rims, boxes of legacy Campy components including a full Euclid Group, two Dura-Ace 7400 Groups and numerous parts and a few complete top tier bikes in their time which collect dust. Hopefully I will take the initiative as I uncouple from work to move this detrius before I dump it all onto those responsible for cleaning up my estate.

It’s going to be interesting to watch to what happens to all these quality beautifully manufactured components and bicycles in the near future. I just can’t see these upcoming generations showing any interest.

Couple more teaser pics, all NOS in boxes.

There’s some old VAR tools I need to figure out what they are first. Anyone know what the VAR 939 is?

That Torpado saddle bag - paging Wildwood

Can haz Campagnolo bidon?*




* Unfortunately I live in a different country and am at the mercy of international postage rates.

Any 27" fenders?

I think that’s the only thing I didn’t bring home.

I’m not trying to sell anything in this thread. Once I go through it and inventory everything I’ll be posting it.

Anyone know what the VAR 939 is?

I don't see it in the VAR catalogue??

Do you have a photo??

Give me a shout if you want to sell all that DA stuff as one lot.

Once I get it all together I’ll let you know. I’ve only skimmed a couple boxes.

What an insane amount of goodness!!

Some of it I’m keeping, finally have a nice Dura Ace headset wrench.

Is the VAR 939 a cotter press?

A substantial lot.
10 hours drive time, that is quite a bit, but seems worth the effort.
a sell by date X, will not yield big dollars.
metering stuff out will be useful and a part time job essentially.
then the dreaded 1099 if conveyed via eBay.

the accumulator appears bought out retiring small bike shops.

Not a bad drive at all to see my good friend. He moved to St. Louis a couple years ago and it’s the first time I’ve seen him since the move. Definitely not in a hurry to
sell and since I’m newly retired I have the time.

Upcoming generations will show interest in this stuff, but not until AFTER two things have happened: (1) the generations of old people that were hoarding the stuff are no longer around to make it appear uncool to younger people, and (2) the hoards have been disposed of and the stuff actually becomes rare.

Ka-RAzy! Well, please remember your C&V "friends" when you get this stuff sorted and are ready to start selling! I bet there's a lot of interest in this Mega Haul from a Mega bunch of us!