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[yoeddynz]

The bike shop I work at has been running in Nelson for many many moons now. Current owner Mike cant help but by random old stuff over the years which means that compared to most bike shops he has a lot of old stuff.

I will be leaving it in a few weeks so I might be able to help out if you are after something odd ball. It wont be free as I aint no thief but I can ask mike and get a price and if everyone is happy then all cool. What I want to see is stuff getting used and helping out old bikes or bike transmorgrafications.

So ask here and I''ll check thread every so often and see what I can rummage up. Oh- and because I prefer riding bikes or running instead of working this means I only work at the shop on thursday, friday and saturday.

One random thing we found was a mint, brand new packaged raleigh chopper front mudguard. We threw it on trademe for interest and it sold for $190 !!! Thats not indicative of what mikes wants for bits- more just indicative of how crazy some chopper fans are!

[andy]

Badly need old freestyle parts!!! Im building a 1989 Bashguard Bully and looking for ACS Boa front brake, Pitbull rear brake and odessey gyro. Any old BMX parts 80's-early 90's considered as also building an 89 Mongoose Cali Pro. Any old 20 inch wheels (3/8 axle) new or used?
Cheers.
Andy.

[felixx]

decent mudguards for a healing cruiser
old school pannier bag for above
seat for above

[Raizer]

Any Raleigh Twenty chrome bits?
White outer cables?

[Valiant]

What 28" bike stuff is there? Any Pantha BMX stuff?
Thanks.

[Mr.Mk1]

Any Healing dragster parts/Decals/T-shifter/Cruiser&Healing chain-guard/Banana seats/

[Ladaspeed]

80's leather copper riveted saddle?

[xsspeed]

80's bmx parts

Anything for 28" big wheels (mines a hercules)

Can you guys get the sweet gumwall and whitewall 1 3/8 CST tyres?

Sturmey archer gear?

[yoeddynz]

list will be written down and i'll have look today. There are a few old bmx bits i'm sure. I think we do have some brand new oldstock metal mudguards so i'll dig them out. There are bins- maybe 20 or more of old bits. I'll get some photos and post em up. I know that jim in village cycles richmond has a container full of old bikes 40's, 50's etc he has collected over the years. Nz seems to have lost many old 'real' bikes to the scrap yard he reckons. In the 80's 90's when know one wanted them

[andy]

yeah alot of bikes were ditched in inorganic rubish collections. Growing up in the 70's-80's we had some sweet home grown BMX's. Healing made up a good chunk of them and even produced redlines under licence for a time. Its all worth saving! I would also be interested in an early BMX threaded headset if available.

Cheers.

[xsspeed]

^ healing 10 speeds use the same headset as all of their bmx's of the same era - mostly Tange gear.

[yoeddynz]

Lots of bits about but I had a mad busy day so sorry fellas but I didn't get a look in. Will be back in on Thursday for work so will look then.

[felixx]

cheers boss

[H8V8S]

Badly need old freestyle parts!!! Im building a 1989 Bashguard Bully and looking for ACS Boa front brake, Pitbull rear brake and odessey gyro. Any old BMX parts 80's-early 90's considered as also building an 89 Mongoose Cali Pro.

Wow, wow, wow, pics! kthx.

Also any 90s bmx stuff?? Odyssey, Fishbone, Haro, Redline etc. Or anything cool/niche for a massively overbuilt Downhill bike (if you find me a set of supermonster forks I will hump your leg for months!! Or just pay alot of money, both good )

[tortron]

80's leather copper riveted saddle?

brooks b17 champion special - copper rivets and copper coated frame
its a nice thing

if there happens to be any hand hammered style metal mudguards for a 700c i would be most interested

[yoeddynz]

I quit my job there and have started that new job at the classic car resto place. But I still pop into the bike shop now and then and will have a look. No brooks saddles there though. No mudguards in the style you mention either. Sorry bout that. sort of pretty much left not long after starting this thread.

Brooks pricing here aint too bad compared to what I used to sell them in pommy bike shop for...

http://bicycle.co.nz...17-special.html

[tortron]

I quit my job there and have started that new job at the classic car resto place. But I still pop into the bike shop now and then and will have a look. No brooks saddles there though. No mudguards in the style you mention either. Sorry bout that. sort of pretty much left not long after starting this thread.

Brooks pricing here aint too bad compared to what I used to sell them in pommy bike shop for...

http://bicycle.co.nz...17-special.html

just gpt that very one a few days ago from them

[yoeddynz]

Yeah I just checked out chainreaction cycles and bugger all cheaper but then plus freight.

[Ladaspeed]

go to Dave at Velo Ideale.

http://www.velo-ideale.com/