Small parts....what pleasures you!

[fearfactoryüberalles]

M900 cro-mo/alloy seatpost. For weight, function, comfort, looks & durability (if looked after). So lovely in fact they should make a reissue, it would sell as hot crossbuns I bet. Pity the special black varnish can look tatty/rusty after a while.

 

[Betsy]

Not that old but beautiful.. this brass top cap, it was polished brass when i put it on my work bike



I like metals and i like how things weather and age.. i can't capture my feelings towards it with a mere photograph but the patina has been building in layers for years..it's just so complex yet impermanent .. i rub it everyday with my hand



..so damn charming and so far removed from the kind of patina described in sales listings for battered bike parts..

If only brass wasn't so soft and heavy.. i'd start making other small parts

 

[Tootyred]

Thats lovely....simple, yet beautiful.

 

[M-Power]

Not really a part but neat smooth welds does it for me.

 

[novocaine]

Not that old but beautiful.. this brass top cap, it was polished brass when i put it on my work bike

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I like metals and i like how things weather and age.. i can't capture my feelings towards it with a mere photograph but the patina has been building in layers for years..it's just so complex yet impermanent .. i rub it everyday with my hand

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..so damn charming and so far removed from the kind of patina described in sales listings for battered bike parts..

If only brass wasn't so soft and heavy.. i'd start making other small parts

I made a few ali ones, all now gone on other people's bikes.
That is lovely though.

 

[benjabbi]

Suntour thumbies and Royce bottom brackets.
The thumbies are just more pleasing to my eye than Shimano ones and feel more positive, although I'll admit that maybe confirmation bias
Royce BBs are like bicycle jewellery.

 

[Prodigal Son]

Syncros posts, flite saddles, quill stems, xt thumbies, dia compe ss5 levers and.... new tires!

 

[moonlite]

Yeah Flite saddles! And the Dia-Compe bar-end shifters I resurrected a few weeks ago have the most addictive fine-toothed clickiness . . . unputdownable!

 

[M-Power]

Oem weight reducing holes on alloy parts is visually appealing to me. IRD Switchback MK3 brakes, their seat post clamp, Ringle skewers, SS7 brake lever clamp holes etc. Not a fan of over zealous Polish butcher treatment though

 

[Hotwheels.]

It turns out I'm a bit of a sticker fiend.