Re: [CR]check list for classic bike maintenance: fear of going the way of the dodo

(Example: Framebuilding:Norris Lockley)

Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:36:06 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]check list for classic bike maintenance: fear of going the way of the dodo
References: <10c.47ae8a.283c3e60@aol.com>


RGarni2706@aol.com wrote:
>
> as for my bikes, I would like to continue to ride them all. has their been a
> discussion in the group (that I perhaps might have missed) about what
> components I/we should stockpile (perhaps too strong a word) to make even
> bikes as late as '74-'85 useable for our (maybe our children, if they aren't
> naughty) lifetime?

No need to stockpile parts as they are available from the guys who stockpiled the parts when they were young and the parts were current. These guys stopped riding decades ago and have no use for the stuff; in other words free to whoever will take it off their hands.

The reality is that most bikes never get ridden more than a year or two in the owner's lifetime. Think about the ratio of bikes sold in the last hundred years to the miles ridden!

Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, California