Thought i’d ask the Q having recently refitted an M735 short cage XT rear mech from c1993 from the spares box, hasnt been used for enarly 10 years and still works well.
Also still running drive side Deore DX crankarm, again c1993.

Whats the oldest bit of kit you ride with? (Excluding riders!)

i guess the frame …. 1990s puch frame/forks on my fixie

I bought my first set of middleburn cranks about ten, maybe twelve years ago, they still look like new.
No other component has ever come close…

rider 8)

87 muddy fox frame, nothing on it apart from the seat binder is original though

Was thinking about this the other day, afraid mine aren’t worth mentioning, so i wont 😆

My RS3 cranks lasted about 3 years, chocolate metal….

i have a set of Mavic wishbone shifters, c’94.

Old red shimano DX spds 🙂

1997 King Headset. Been through 8 frames. The first decent component I ever bought when I got into MTBing and it’s now on my SS.

GB

1990 XT rear mech. Sill in regular use on the hack bike and still works perfectly.

paulosoxo – Member
Old red shimano DX spds

Mine too. They must be 12 years old, but the paint fell off them after about 3 weeks.

Shimano DX BMX pedals – got a few pairs and some must be over 25 years old.

1960s frame on fixed road bike

Funnily enough mine aren’t strictly bike components as they are a pair of Spez Sport SPD shoes and Spez gloves: both circa 1999 and both used every week.

not regular but old and reliable – on saturday i cursed as trackpump fell to pieces deflating tyre along the way, cursed a lot when Mrs antigee’s 3 month old pump had the twisty end and rubber grommet missing, multiple and apparently totally unacceptable cursing when shock pump converter thread refused to screw on valve SO ……..

my circa 1978 Raleigh road framefit pump – just pushed it onto the valve – some good hard adrenaline backed pumping and out i went – at last and i did get back before dark

Azonic bars I bought in Aus in 96

Hope hubs/Mavic rims – bought s/h more than 7 years ago, on their third frame…

The front mech on my CX is a Shimano 600 (pre-Ultegra) which was on my first road bike which I bought in 1994. Kept it when I sold the frame a few years ago (it was the only original component left) and then used it when I built my CX up about 2-3 years ago.

reggiegasket

Azonic bars I bought in Aus in 96

Change them NOW! Unless you want to be know as reggiecasket!

4500 mile old chain on the sutra, and the rest of the sutra, currently my oldest bike