...I have yet to hold anything NOS.
I'm too damned new at this game, and have no "Ebay reflex" set aside.

You guys make me envious!

I've been hoarding a bit, so now I'm giving stuff away.

I have a Campy Nuovo Record rear derailleur, and I recently bought another one. I have no idea why I did that.

I had a pair of NOS Superbe brakes, finally put them on a bike last month. It seems that I hardly ever get rid of anything, except 3 years ago I donated everything in my low end parts bin and 4 bikes to the local coop.

As compulsive as it may sound, awhile ago I began cataloging all the stuff I have on an Excel spreadsheet. Not a tremendous amount of it is NOS, but a lot of it is in really good condition. Being an apartment-dweller, everything is packed away in file boxes, so I forget about stuff I have on hand (and buy duplicates) if I don't look it up first, to remember -- Oh yeah, got one of those already! So when I kick the bucket, it will be easy enough to figure out what's there, at least.

+1 on keeping tabs of hobby stuff on an Excel spreadsheet. I do the same with my spare parts, and a breakdown of which bike the parts had gone. Linking to a URL or jpeg of the item whenever I can.
It simplifies one's inventory when the memory is fading.

I've gathered some NOS Campy Centaur and Record stuff a few years ago. Some NOS lesser mainstream brands too. Only vintage NOS would be hubs (high flange Gnutti and Maillard), and a set of Superbe Pro wheels awaiting that future classic build. Most of my NOS purchases are only if they are deals too good to pass up. The rest of my "hoarding" is decent and good equipment that is being discarded by someone. I gather what I know I WILL use, or someone else could use. So far, it hasn't gotten out of hand.

I'm trying to nurture in my stepsons the same biking passion that I have. Then maybe this collection will be appreciated by someone in the future. So far, I haven't seen much depth in their interest. No surprise given this PlayStation, Nintendo generation.

That is really cool. I am surprised to see a Raleigh style fork crown on it. I have had 3 or 4 bikes with '333' 3 speed hubs from various years and I had a pretty favorable impression of them. They are not really serviceable like a sturmey archer and there is not oil port. Even so, they are much easier to setup that an SA hub IMO. Everyone that I had shifted smooth and reliably enough, I am sure there are exceptions.

I use my stash to dust my cookies and strain my soup.

I got to use the pay it forward thread more often.

this is the only NOS item I have, I think:

Thanks!
I've got no experience with it, Just going by what I've read, mostly from Sheldon. Yours is the most encouraging thing I've read....give me a bit of hope for it

Interestingly enough, mine has an oil port, perhaps keeping it oiled up wont be such an issue



and check out the Shimano alternative to the SA selector chain...i think its pretty cool.

I recently sold most of my "not on bike" stuff. However I did keep an NOS Campy NJS hub that I will probably never use.

I try to move most of what I have as spares, but it doesn't seem to move all that quickly and I am too lazy to put it on ebay and I either paid to much for it or spent to much time cleaning and rebuilding it to want to give it away. I used to have extra groups but they are gone now. I even sold my "girlfriends road bike" which was a collectible bike that I owned in her size, which she rarely used and on one of her last rides fell over and scraped the precious blue concor saddle and NOS pedal dustcaps... I cringed... the bike is gone now.. what's the point? But when you get right down to it in this topic... some of us are as sinful as they come. I have one vintage road bike I've never ridden and another that hasn't seen pavement in over a year. In the last 2 years my track bike has been ridden exactly twice.. Once in a 20 second sprint drag race and once to a photo shoot. Why bother? Because I put so much into building them I can't let them go. Now that most of the old high end stuff is gone... it's being replaced by boxes of more modern or stuff that is useful but not immediately and it's more work than it's worth to try and sell... I try to give tires and parts to my friends when I can as long as it's getting used and not going into their bin.

Generally speaking, I use what I've got. I'm not really sitting on too many parts that that haven't been used to build something.

What good are nice spare bike parts if you can't enjoy them?!?!?

Using Your Stash

sometimes, but Dave's not here.

If you know what that's about, you're my age.

Here I thought this thread would be about self medication, Silly me.

+1000 on this.

In the past 6 months I have sold:

1972 Schwinn Paramount P-15 (chrome)
1982 Trek 710 (Painted by Dr. Deltron The bike in his sig.)
1983 Trek 613 Highly customized (New Paint decals, canti braze-ons)
1985 Schwinn Passage
1972 Mercian
1985 Mongoose ATB
1992 Schwinn Paramount PDG 70 Mountain bike
1976 Raleigh International

11 cranksets (Including a Campy Triple) and I am just getting started on all the other stuff.


I have given away crates of "low-end" parts to the local bike co-op and a bunch of stuff to BF member High Fist Shin, when he was not working, to help him in his bike flipping endeavors. I am more than likely going to rent a table at the upcoming swap meet and off load as much as I can in one shot.

I am down to 2 bikes now, both modern, with steel frames/forks. I am getting more riding in now than I had previously. Keeping track of everything became a second job and it began to get old.

this thread is about self-medication.

I'm saving it all up until I really retire. I figure it'll take me a couple of years to clear it all out...

No, man! It's me! Dave!

Dave's Not Here Man

I feel the same pains once in a while, usually right before a build up.
The effort getting all the stash together can be so hard sometimes that I like to enjoy the stash as NOS for a bit, unmolested, fresh, with no incidental scratches, bruises and dents from installation and build-ups. Sometimes I get to foolishly fatasizing that some of them might be one of the last few NOS examples on earth so there is trepidation on whether I should turn it overnight from "NOS" to "used" by installing them on my bikes or building them up into wheelsets. sort of like the "driving the new car off the dealership lot"...uhmmm..syndrome...
I've recently been loading up on classic 80's French "junk" that is now turning into a bigger and bigger "stash" lately. I never really planned on putting together a collection of bike component stash, but dang!, I better find that perfect and affordable PY10FC or Gitane Pro frame soon or the stash molehill can turn into a mountain in a short time, and I can't ride a stash mountain!!

Chombi

Dam right.

I just sold of my entire stash, I'm down to virtualy nothing or what I do have is junk. I shouldnt say my entire stash because I dont sell loose ball BB's, headsets or DT shift levers.

Over the past 3 months I've sold over $3,000 worth of 'spare parts'.

F'ck it, if I need something I previously sold I'll just rebuy it.

Uhmmm...... might you have a minty fresh pair of Mavic (Simplex) retrofrictions still lying around that you'll sell me for a much less than the crazy TDF season prices out there presently??......

Chombi

I have purchased from that widowed spouse........got a great deal and a boatload of stuff, but it was rather uncomfortable. I'm fairly certain my spouse would gladly pay someone to haul it all away.

Not much NOS but I am guilty of hoarding the 600 Arab. and TriColor bits, Treks (5), tools, Cyclone bits, high flange hubs................

I hoard it. Hoard, hoard, hoard. Right down to Campagnolo ball bearing retainers.

-Kurt