[Closed] Most rediculous thing you've built a bike around?

A friend of mine bought a gold Hope seat QR that didn't fit his frame. He is now building a bike around it!

I have a pair of handlebars that i am contemplating building a bike around.

1 half of a used superstar organic brake pad.

A set of replacement decals...

Barry Bethel - Premier Member

1 half of a used superstar organic brake pad.

I have the other half.

But the backing has fallen off...

I built up a new 2009 Whyte Carbon 19 on the basis that I had a new Thomson seat post, stem and XT front mech. It turned out the post was too short, the stem too long and the wrong bleedin' mech 🙄

I have some spare front tyre air in my track pump so am planning a new XC bike around it

Explosion In a Spaghetti Factory - Member

I have knocked the back end off my male other half.

😯

Barry Bethel - Premier Member

Explosion In a Spaghetti Factory - Member

I have knocked the back end off my male other half.

Barry.

I keep telling you no matter how many times I knock the back out of you you'll never be my other half. Just a cheap distraction. 🙄

I got given a set of Marzocchi Z3 130mm. Built my favouritest bike ever around it.

bought the wrong size seat post about 2 yrs ago from ebay, got a good deal, and it's too nice to sell on. keep thinking i'll build a bike around that.

I had a dream...

i bust the seatstay on my kona bear at inners, the bike shop there had a used back end for a kona stab so i fitted the seatstay and put the swing arm and rockers under the stairs for a few years, till i saw a stab front end on ebay
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worked out well in the end..........
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A Brooks saddle, didn't work on a couple of bikes, my late father had given it to me for my 40th and I was determined to find it a home. Decided to build a 'retro' fixed gear hack/commuter, sourced bits on EBay, rummaged through the shed etc. has worked out very well and I use the bike, and think about my Dad, everyday.

Good for you pegasus.

A mistaken belief it would make me a better rider!

A mistaken belief it would make me a better rider!

me too, loads and loads of times................. 😆

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Built a wooden frame to hold me wheels between me leggies.

Sangobegger that is quite awesomely british and eccentric. Love it.

i had a post and bars so i built a karate monkey then bought new bars and a post to upgrade a bit mid build 🙂

Have taken one frame in part exchange for another a couple of times in the past when the buyer hasn't had enough cash to buy the frame I was selling outright...

Of course, the reason I was selling each time was to downsize the number of bikes I had... And yet of course, I'd end up building up the new frame I'd just acquired as a part ex just so I could try it out wouldn't I!!! 😳

Still, worse things have happened... Now anybody bought a pair of grips and built a bike around that yet?

...I am quite clearly not alone in this. I was just thinking about this sort of thing the other day. I've got a few old stems, spare brakes, wheels, saddles and other bits lying about and I constantly wonder what sort of bizzarely weird, mismatched monster I can will make out of them all one day 😛

I'm slowly building a bike in bits at the moment, started with a nexus gear/disk rear hub.
Need a horizontal dropout frame (no forks) and a couple of rims and I'm good to go. Would be easy but I'm in Aus, so not much about down here on ebay.

I got a carbon rigid fork for the Soul, for a bit of variety. But then, I thought, "Seems a shame to have that lying around when the Revs are in the Soul, and there's an old frame up there, and there's other bits in that Idrive I've been planning to sell..." And the next thing I know, I'm buying parts for a bike I'll maybe never even ride, because it'll still be nicer to just fit the carbon forks to the Soul and it doesn't even take 10 minutes. Ah well.

black, lazer etched x-lite stem stacker