What's the rarest part you own?

[pete_mcc]

If not, I still have a NOS Altus A10 groupset as well.

Live the dream, ride the dream

 

[Hotwheels.]

how is all this rare

What are you on about, why are you having a go and trying to be clever? It's not a competition, I titled the thread 'what is the rarest part you own'. If someone's rarest part is a Flite, so what, they may love that component and want to show it off. Someone else has already posted that they have a NOS Browning electric crank, so you're not that great really are you!

 

[any123]

how is all this rare

What are you on about, why are you having a go and trying to be clever? It's not a competition, I titled the thread 'what is the rarest part you own'. If someone's rarest part is a Flite, so what, they may love that component and want to show it off. Someone else has already posted that they have a NOS Browning electric crank, so you're not that great really are you!

show me

 

[pete_mcc]

Here's my browning, complete with a suntour xc finishing kit. Not the best photos, they're the ones I took after getting it from eBay just before putting it away and forgetting about it:

Can't find it to take better shots as it's in here somewhere (or one of the two other shelving units just like it:

 

[any123]

i suppose on this occasion i have to eat humble pie and say i was wrong which i never am

 

[gibbleking]

nice knife btw ,,,can i have it?

 

[FluffyChicken]

Probably my Specialized Direct Drive bottom bracket, the White Industries version.

I have lots of other parts but it's the one I've not seen crop up on here.

 

[Hotwheels.]

i suppose on this occasion i have to eat humble pie and say i was wrong which i never am

You must be like me...'I'm not always right, but i'm never wrong'.

 

[pete_mcc]

i suppose on this occasion i have to eat humble pie and say i was wrong which i never am

Sometimes I honestly forget whats in those boxes. Its always nice when you open one up and find NOS cooks or bullseye cranks, as set of 1st gen gripshifts, a box filled with Campa or some long forgotten rims, forks or wheels.

At some point I will have finished renovating the house and will then set to and get the garage sorted. I even have bikes that haven't seen the light of day in a year or so due to my last house move:


(3 of the 8 still in boxes)

That Browning set up was a pain when I first got it 'cos the grease had solidified over the past 25 years and the whole thing was seized (I initially thought it was dead) but now it clicks beautifully and is waiting for some daft project to put it on.

 

[Hotwheels.]

^^^ That's just taking the p*ss! Fat Ti next on my shopping list I think.