What do you use to organise and store all your spare bike parts / bits ?

Could have wept at the post about all that going in the tip. All the obsolete stuff we no longer value is a goldmine for bike charities. 25.4mm bars, square taper etc are still the bread and butter of cheap bikes and can help someone keep on the go.

Doing quite well with my spares at the moment, if you ignore the three eagle cassettes and chains in a box in the garage rafters!
Plastic take away tubs are great for small parts as you can see roughly what’s in them. The big Lurpak tub is a great size for packets of brake pads.

I’ve been told my living ‘standard’ puts Steptoe’s Yard to shame, but I argue that I know where everything is and it is where it is needed – but it looks like a completely disorganised mess to the untrained eye! It does need sorted though…properly sorted.

I’ve a 10lt Really Useful Box of drivetrain and smaller parts, mainly just flung in the packaging or a recycled sandwich bag, and a second box with larger items like old saddles in.
Spare tyres are now folded and shoved in the bike stand/rack.

New parts – I only tend to have a spare cassette and chain and brake pads. Everything else is just swapped out or kept ‘in case’ as a part worn.

Could have wept at the post about all that going in the tip

I’ll take a photo next time.

The Zip up IKEA bags are good for tyres. I have two full of MTB tyres and one of road tyres…

I know where everything is and it is where it is needed

This has been challenging for me this year as I’ve been living in another place while our house is rebuilt. Consequently I now have stuff spread across two sheds. The other one is even bigger but shared with my father in law (so I feel compelled to keep my stuff semi-tidy). I’m finding it harder to find stuff in my shed when I go back there as a result.

I like used 1 litre honey/yoghurt containers for spares like pads, bearings etc. Hope ziplock bags are great for bits and bobs.

New parts – I only tend to have a spare cassette and chain and brake pads.

Err, yeah. I can basically do a complete drive train refresh on all the bikes in my garage – chain, cassette, chainrings, jockey wheels. It helps that I’ve (almost) standardised on 11 speed Shimano, but even then there are various brake pad types (that reminds me – I need to buy some spares for the new bike).

Partly, I tend to buy when I see stuff cheap rather than have to buy at any price when I suddenly need to. It’s daft really as I’ve enough bikes to keep riding for a while anyway. I’m afraid it’s just the way my brain works, another sign of my anxiety.

Could have wept at the post about all that going in the tip.

The bike recycle charities don’t really exist here. So there’s very little alternative.
I mean, i regularly donate stuff to kids in the various clubs round here. But a lot of them are more up to date than i am. (i don’t even have a 12 speed bike yet.)

@reeksy

I’ve a decent sized shed…

Sure is, slightly envious.

Bisley cabinets are a good shout.

But maybe I’m looking at this all wrong, as clearly I’m in good company and it is the norm to use box after box & just shove stuff in, or leave it all loosely lying around so it’s impossible to find the bit you are looking for, huge pile of tyres, wheels, etc

This thread shows it’s actually weird to be organised and tidy with bike stuff.

Will see how I go.

This thread shows it’s actually weird to be organised and tidy with bike stuff.

Weirdly organised and proud about it 🙂

Not much envious.. I’d be buying a frame jig and brazing kit if I had a shed that big.

To kill all the spiders and snakes.

No chance I’d be rooting round for something with ten redbacks and a brown snake ready dead mee.

The python can stay.

Screwfix have these 3 organisers for a bargain £17.99 for the three at the moment, bought two lots, one for little bike spares and another for DIY stuff

https://www.screwfix.com/p/stanley-sort-master-organiser-set-3-pieces/2690D?kpid=2690D&gclid=CjwKCAjwge2iBhBBEiwAfXDBRwiE9ro1uslMgL59ElSfCAabY4SzKuS1IxNOPSTrXlatLKa260FeHRoCOpUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Can’t say I’ve loads of spares. Five bikes all different. 3 vintage. I do carry a shed load of Dura Ace Ultra Glide Sprockets for the best bike. Usual stuff like spare chain rings for the MTB’s, brake pads, cables. No spare components, other than a fair few wheels.

I expect to see a few Clearout ads in the Classifieds after this thread 😁

Working in a school I have access to scruffy racks of plastic trays. They work well. One stack has mechs, rear, Campag, another has mech, rear Shimano, another mech, rear SRAM, another mechs, rear other. Mech, Front Campag. Baskets hold brakes, disc MTb, brakes, disc , road, brakes rim caliper, brakes rim dual pivot, brake rim canti.
Get the picture.
I have 48 trays. I need more. My inadequete garage, 16×10 holds the loose wheels in the roof. Well most of them. 17 pairs. Plus odds. The road ones. MTB in the shed.
Is there a bike parts anonymous ( junk version)

To kill all the spiders and snakes.

No chance I’d be rooting round for something with ten redbacks and a brown snake ready dead mee.

The python can stay.

“Rooting round” means something different in Oz 🙂

… Have definitely seen a few snakes in the shed. But they’re in the roof, by the front door, etc, but they don’t interfere and they keep the mice numbers down and they’re more problematic. They chewed through my soldering iron wiring, wrecked a stereo that was in storage etc

I’ve a 20lt box of various bits and bobs – seat-posts, handlebars, stuff that’s come from new bike contact point swaps that sort of thing, and a couple of click-lockable boxes for useful nuts and screws, and the like, oh, and some spare tyres in the shed, but mostly my spares are kept here:

I can’t see the point of filling up my spare space with stuff when they will happily do it for me, and send it to me when I ask for it.

bucket.

Various boxes and shelves in the garage.

Last time I had a sort out I made a list on my phone of all the spares and parts I have and I keep that list up to date as things are acquired or used.

I’ve seen bike shops with less stock than @scotroutes, and as for @a11y – I am not worthy!!  I’m a big fan of Really Useful Boxes because their sides are vertical – no good for stacking in a shop, but better for actually storing stuff!

Nearly pulled the pin on some secondhand bisley  drawer units, but each drawer is only 5cm high. What’s the use of that ?

I do know these weren’t designed for bike parts, but still.

I’m pleased with my shed as I’ve managed to keep enough floorspace to move around relatively easily in there! It helps I’ve got in the habit of putting things away (if not immediately then a quick tidy up operation the next day). Spare bike parts/bits, in filing cabinets, on shelves, in bottom drawer of tool cabinent, in various biscuit-gift-tins on shelves – which sounds like I’ve got a lot but most of it is worn out and/or broken. Apart from the handlebars they’re in good nick. Spent an afternoon a few weeks ago sorting through the contents of one of the tins. So that’s where all the presta dust caps went!

Nearly pulled the pin on some secondhand bisley  drawer units, but each drawer is only 5cm high. What’s the use of that ?

Are you serious? They are the best ones!

I have two, all the tools go in them perfectly. And they come out as perfect trays

Are you serious? They are the best ones!
I have two, all the tools go in them perfectly. And they come out as perfect trays

Ah, I’m planning on using them to store all the bike parts, bike tools, spares etc

I have an SGS tool chest cabinet thing for all the other tools, that’s also close to overflowing.

Nearly pulled the pin on some secondhand bisley drawer units, but each drawer is only 5cm high. What’s the use of that ?

They do a range of different sizes. I like the shallow ones as you have more drawers per unit. Great for tools and smaller items, as well as flat items like disks. Get one of those and one of the 6 draw units with deeper drawers for the bigger items. Then put your current tool chest on top of them.

Yes think I’m going to keep a look out for one of those shallow drawer cabinets too they look ideal for organising/grouping smaller items/components/fixings etc. The bigger cabinets are OK but get unwieldy when you have to rummage through it all.

Nearly pulled the pin on some secondhand bisley drawer units, but each drawer is only 5cm high. What’s the use of that ?

I got one of those, a little document cabinet, free from when an office closed down. I took it cos it looks nice, but I keep small items in it, like brake pads in one drawer, tyre levers & puncture kits in another, bushing presses, tubeless tape, that kinda thing. Still have about 6 empty drawers, but there’s still a re-org going on 🙂