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Koen posted this fine collection in another thread.

koen wrote:What to do on a lazy summer arvo? Make a felt lined box for shiny bits ! Its getting bad when I want something but don't even want it on a bike.
A well used partially complete 50th gruppo I put in a box a few years back



and a hardly used 600 8sp gruppo I put in a box today
I just got it off a bike I'm "turning into" a px10 with older parts

Found these images on a recent search.




I'm now sat here looking at my lounge room wall and wondering...

Rather see them on a bike, and being used as they were intended, personally.

The Fixer wrote:Rather see them on a bike, and being used as they were intended, personally.

True, but better displayed than in the trash bin for the recyclers where most end up.
Lot more period derailleurs than bicycles for some reason
Cheers
Richard

i would like to frame/box a few rd's one day.

WyvernRH wrote:

The Fixer wrote:Rather see them on a bike, and being used as they were intended, personally.

True, but better displayed than in the trash bin for the recyclers where most end up.
Lot more period derailleurs than bicycles for some reason
Cheers
Richard

Good point!


Mick.

The collecting bug is a strange one. I think my urge to simply collect occurrs in inverse proportion to the amount of riding I am doing or am able to do. The boxed parts I have do kind of look nice but really just waiting for the right bike. If you saw my workshop you'd see why I thought they needed somewhere safe to live for a while

I always wanted a display cabinet in my workshop.

Another display idea.

I've often thought about hanging some nice, but otherwise unused derailleurs of mine similar to those shown on the small boards. But I can't but help think in their default, untensioned state; without a chain around some cogs threaded through them - they kind of look like dried up & dead robot spiders. Limp of life.

I'd want to somehow tension the spring with the arm out at least part way.

HappyHumber wrote:I'd want to somehow tension the spring with the arm out at least part way.

then you could use a chainring and some chain

Source: fixed.org.au [so this is where the gears end up!]

This reminds me... I need to tend to my VW badge collection first.

Lots of steel bikes wrote:Another display idea.

Nice homage to Picasso with a big game hunter flavour. It has become so ubiquitous that it is seems odd that it was considered revolutionary in 1942

Clydesdale Scot wrote:

HappyHumber wrote:I'd want to somehow tension the spring with the arm out at least part way.

then you could use a chainring and some chain

Source: fixed.org.au [so this is where the gears end up!]

That's a very expensive wall hanging.

Lots of steel bikes wrote:Another display idea.

This looks pretty sick, I wouldn't mind making a few to hang my bikes on.

Apparently each of the seat/bar crest combos are all sold out (AT) EUR 200 if you trace back by other web-mechs.
*coff*bulls4h!t*coff*

HappyHumber wrote:This reminds me... I need to tend to my VW badge collection first.

id like to see that, can you put up a pic?

mark field wrote:

HappyHumber wrote:This reminds me... I need to tend to my VW badge collection first.

id like to see that, can you put up a pic?

+1

Some of my parts i get antsy about using, especially suntour stuff. Old derailleurs make beautiful paper weights.

And old shift levers and QR levers make great fridge magnets if you stick a good rare earth magnet on 'em.
Well...if you like bike parts on your fridge or you don't have a shmancy stainless fridge the magnets won't stick onto.