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  • What is the smallest part you have used as an excuse for a new build?
  • Mister-P
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    What have you had laying about and thought "I could build a new bike round that"? How small an excuse has it needed?

    surfer
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    I found a disk bolt with no Araldite.
    Built it up to an Inbred with Talas!

    Ishouldbeworking
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    not quite the same but the other weekend I picked a whole bike up from the tip as it looked far to good to waste, everything seemed to be working and it even had air in the tyres.

    got a bit carried away and now only the frame and fork are original with everything else brand new…..

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    deadlyhifi
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    I once felt a gust of wind which I promptly contained in a plastic ziplock bag I happened upon at the time. I quickly ordered a new frame, forks, and all the parts… that gust of wind went into the rear shock, best suspension action ever. 😯

    Coyote
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    Was given a pair of Z3 Qr20 forks. They evolved into my Coyote Dual SS. 8)

    Had shifter and mech left over from above SS conversion. Now on their way to becoming a DMR Trailstar LT. 8) 8)

    Digger90
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    …on a more serious note, for me a new bike usually starts with a bare frame but I've also built bikes around a pair of forks I selected first..

    firestarter
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    I had an ss crank and a seat post so I built up a karate monkey. But got a nice ss ring for it and needed a new post as one I had was layback and needed inline 😉

    sssimon
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    pair of carbon hybrid forks slowly becoming a cyclocros build (and I doubt the forks will make it onto the final build)

    mamadirt
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    I have a brand new red Odyssey brake cable in the tool box and a barely used v brake on the back of the Inbred – hmmmmmm, bmx or mtb?? It'd be rude not too really 😛

    stevet
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    Well ive just received an extra free mech hanger when i bought 1 from Petra Cycles … Excuse to build another Commencal ?

    shedfull
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    I've got a 456 Summer Season I built around a pair of 2002 Marzocchi Z1 Dropoff forks I bought for another project that didn't happen. The forks cost 75 quid. The bike cost £1000 all up.

    oldgit
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    A headset and blue SLR saddle.

    hooja
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    a pair or original old skool green dice dust caps!!

    househusband
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    Crimped cable end.

    mmb
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    i can't believe any of you actually needed an excuse tsk tsk.

    singlespeedstu
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    I built a new bike around a puncture repair patch.

    househusband
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    I built a bike once, based upon the air around me – because I knew it would soon occupy the tubeless wheelset it would have.

    TheSwede
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    A ferrule.

    _tom_
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    I have some rigid forks, bars/stem and a rear brake and I'm thinking of building a bike around them. Something singlespeed and a bit more road/commute oriented.

    Junkyard
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    credit card….. tiny and yet it contains so many shinny new bits

    ex-pat
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    Gear hub, to build a cruiser.
    Cruiser is built, hub gear is still in a box on the shelf 😕

    Coyote
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    Junkyard wins! I think it rings true for so many of us.

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