The Rarest of rare?

What's the rarest thing you've got?

I'll start, i've got a doughnut cable hanger by a company called RAD components, early 94ish, used to have 2 now only got 1, a bit like Hitler.

I've never seen any others!

I'll post a pic when i get time.
I have a couple of those.
 
The rarest bike I've got would be the Roberts Black Leopard. It's the only one I've seen and I was actively hunting for a few years, even then I found it purely by chance when I thought I was buying a White Spider.

I also have a full Mavic Gao Dakar group set including shifters, front and rear derailleurs, cranks, chainset, headset and wheelset, although some of the parts by themselves aren't that rare, having the whole set together in barely ridden condition probably is.
 
Rarest thing i've probably got is Steve Peats 93 Kona Explosif race bike what he won the championship on,just need to get it back to race spec.
 

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Cover bike from the 95 GT catalog
 

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My 1992 FUNK Titanium Frame + 5 of their suspension forks + 1 box fork.

You can follow the frame (bike) and the potential build-up here:



FUNK Titanium Combat Retro MTB Frame by Falko Schlötel Germany 01.jpeg
 
Thats a cracker! Wonder if 'Langsett' is from Langsett cycles in Sheffield
It is,they sponsored him back then. If you zoom in on the photo of him riding the bike you can see the Tange Prestige Ultrastrong sticker on the seatube but above it i'm guessing that will be a Langsett cycles bike shop sticker which will be a nightmare to find, that'll have my retrobike ocd going overtime trying to get one lol
 
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It is,they sponsored him back then. If you zoom in on the photo of him riding the bike you can see the Tange Prestige Ultrastrong sticker on the seatube but above it i'm guessing that will be a Langsett cycles bike shop sticker which will be a nightmare to find, that'll have my retrobike ocd going overtime trying to get one lol
Contact the shop and ask - sure they will have an old one in a drawer or behind a cupboard. If not they could probs get one made for you? They're pretty proud of their Peaty connection so would no doubt be keen to help out if they could in return for a photo for their website or something maybe?
 
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