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Making Room

This is my bicycle parts cabinet. 10 years ago my spare parts fix in my toolbox, now they fill this (and it only has small stuff). It is my friend and my nemesis. It’s too big and that lets me hoard too much stuff.

This weekend I made a first pass at getting rid of stuff. I emptied out 1.5 drawers (making room for framebuilding tools), not bad at all. With a couple of more passes maybe it’ll be empty.

This is what a typical drawer looks like (post cleanup):

The derailleur section (lower left) was probably the most cleaned out. I think I took about 7 cheap front derailleurs and 5 rear derailleurs to the Bike Shack today. It still has too much stuff.

I got rid all of cup and cone bottom brackets and still have more than a dozen cartridge ones. Too much!

Look for a for-sale listing of the nicer items on the BOB list and this blog soon.