I'm having a bit of a clean out of the shed at the moment and have found various bits of worn out kit like old chains, grips, mechs and so on. They are ragged out and of no use as bike components any more. I have repurposed a bar grip onto the end of a broom but that's it.
Any suggestions or is it time to visit the local tip?
Bike charities.
Even if they can't use them they can still weigh them in.
Old damaged mechs are handy singlespeed tensioners but beyond that useless. Sometimes it's better to just let things get recycled.
If your a bit handy there seems to be a roaring trade in making old bike stuff into jeweller or ornaments etc.
Some incredible stuff on Google!
Yeah, I've wondered this too. I have a bucket with about five motorbike chains, maybe more bike chains, old sprockets, bent cassettes. Seems silly to just chuck it all away.
If you have really small cogs from a cassette, I'll buy a few off you? I am getting married early next year and some of our flower pins are being made using these small parts... I have not managed to get hold of any yet....:)
That bike furniture looks lovely, I doubt my wife would agree 🙂
I've got an old Cove stiffee frame in the shed. Has anyone seen a way of displaying it on the wall ornamentaly?
Just straight/ plain on the wall won't cut it with my wife. I tried to work out how to turn it into shelves and couldn't.
I've made kitchen roll holders out of seatposts and hub sheels, with a brake rotor as the base. I've also made toilet roll holders out of crank axles. Helps if you have a lathe to turn stuff down to fit though.
Make stuff out of it. I made a clock for my garage out of a Hope rotor. If you can weld you can weld up chain links and make shapes with the chains.
I give it to a colleague at work who turns it into 'art'. He's currently trying to make a working clock out of the numerous dead cassettes and chainrings.
Plant things in old boots and helmets.
Worn drivetrain parts are just scrap metal. They can be recycled, which saves resources on smelting from ore. If you can find some ornamental use for them, fine, but sending them to be melted down and reused is the best use for them if you want to save the planet.
We used a wheel, old chains and a chain ring to make a water powered rotisserie on camp recently.