what have you thrown out?

greenfinger

Retro Guru
When reading madcowkev's post earlier it got me thinking what kinda retro stuff have we/or our parents( :roll: ) thrown out. i know i used to have boxes of parts(lx/xt) a lovely set of titanium bars and a huge amount of magazines(mtb i mean, not the 'others' :LOL: ) that have all just seemed to have disapeared....
 
I'm guilty of throwing away 2 Marins, 1st was a 91 Palisades Trail, it was only 6 months old, but had been underneath a lorry as i did, lucky it was me that survived and not the bike!

And my replacement for the Palisades was a 91 Pine Mountain, which got dumped about 5 years ago, it was well knackered though but still regret that foulish act!
 
2 Airlines sets

And before I discovered retrobike... in fact this was over 10 years ago....

1 black Middleburn RS3 compact spider
2 pairs of boxed NOS Super Record brake calipers
10 Dura-ace OX chainsets
1 pair of Record hubs
4 Record Electa pneumatic saddles
White Industries BB (cos it was shite.)
Hundreds of Wolber, Mavic and Araya sprint rims
A Klein road frame
Several Deore touring triple chainsets.
Umpteen control tech and syncros stems in stupid sizes

It's because of people like me that this stuff is now so scarce....
 
Over the years I've binned far too much stuff :roll:

Here are the highlights

• Original crud catcher ('cause I got the Mk2 version)
• Mk2 crud catcher ('cause I got a clear Mk2 version – still got that one though)
• Klein forks off a Pulse
• any amount of old Suntour kit
• White Onza Porc (don't cry guys, the stdewalls were all cracked and fraying)
• Black shimmed X-lite bars
• Purple shimmed x-lite bars (were faded)
• A 3-foot tall pile of MBUKs from the late '80s to early '90s
• A Bula hat
• GT jersey and shorts (yellow and blue '91 :cry: )
• Giro Hammerhead lid ('cause I hadn't worn it for a while)

Need I go on – this is quite upsetting to recall
 
o and a 6 month old diamond back topanga because the chain sucked up so it went over a hedge ;)
got i had a temper as a kid :?
 
MAXTHEROTTI":1y5l57eo said:
o and a 6 month old diamond back topanga because the chain sucked up so it went over a hedge ;)
got i had a temper as a kid :?


:LOL: :LOL: :LOL: that was me too :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: buy something new on saturday, ride on sunday, not quite what i wanted or played up... in the frickin bin and good ridance :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: to a certain extent i'm still like it :twisted:
 
lol hardly
i could just run faster than me old man when he found out :p
shame he remembered things longer than i did tho :(
i swear i can still feel that slap ;) lol
 
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