[Closed] What is the rarest component you own? Poss bike p*rn content.

Magura HS66 drop bar levers mated to Julie calipers, giving you hydraulic dropbar brakes.

Oh, and thanks for the advice, ben - is now back in use with a full complement of spokes

The Penny Farthing spoke worked? Good stuff 😉

A set of trp euroX magnesium ti canti's not rare but at £200+for a set of cant's I'd hazard that there's not that many knocking about ?

Not mine, but mate has one of the few Lotus carbon super MTBs from the early 90's (i think 500 were made, most going to pro riders). He's owned it from new, I think one of the carbon parts recently gave up the ghost after 18 years (the bit that holds the front derailleur). also has hydraulic rim brakes (rear only in this pic).
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So should I put my HS66s on my Ti Pompino with a Cambiogear 16 speed front ring and the automatic 6 speed rear transmission, or would it be better to put the Browning automatic transmission chainring on my EPX? And should I lace up the brand new Campag Mexico Olympic rims for it?

I have a few complete bikes that are rare, mainly because no one else would be daft enough to want one.

I think the Unicycle hub wins, but the best component mod is Ben Cooper's twin disk IMO.

Ive seen those lotus frames. I would love one.. they are superb..

My Clockwork Orange, in a very limited matt orange apparently only 50 were ever done like this just near finishing the restoration just need a Rolls Sadle and apart from a new chain and cabling it's finished.... Now I am sure someone is going to tell me that the whole of 1991 production was done in this mode...
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/30958651@N02/8682370546/ ]Clockwork Orange[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/30958651@N02/ ]Piers Mortimer[/url], on Flickr

Or this ?
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/30958651@N02/8636212596/ ]BIKE CLEAR OUT !![/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/30958651@N02/ ]Piers Mortimer[/url], on Flickr

Not very fancy, but I have the first Ridgeback Tempest prototype...
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It has such a scary low bottom bracket that I had to put 700c wheels on it so I could lean into corners 🙄

I dunno how many Syncros Magnesium hubs are left. When I build this one up, maybe there'll soon be one less!

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On a less serious note, check out this drain cover bashring that came through the shop a year or two back!

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I can't compete with the previous posts, but I did find this in a the garage the other day, does anybody still use them?
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Oh well if we are doing prototypes.

SRAM X9 pre-production rear mech

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/92389101@N04/8682023303/ ]SRAM X9 Pre Production[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/92389101@N04/ ]Tyred Cyclist[/url], on Flickr

Now that's a class looking Orange, needs some skinwall rubber on it though 😀

higthepig - Member
I can't compete with the previous posts, but I did find this in a the garage the other day, does anybody still use them?

Got 4 bikes with them, and a spare box of cotter pins in the shed.

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BTW the drop bar with rod brakes on the bike in the pic is fairly rare too. 🙂

Probably the disc rotor lock ring removal tool for my red Hope Ti-glide hubs. I say red, but the ano has faded to pink.

The wheels are still good after 10+ years on V brake 517 rims - I had them built before I got discs so I could upgrade once I got a disc compatible frame. Luckily really, because the Hope XC4's were so useless I eventually went back to XTR V brakes for a bit.

I have a. Full Set of campy eucilid canti brakes