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ggryder

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What sort of spares have people accumulated over the years?
I’m wondering if I’m an outlier. Most of my used spares/junk are either Commando or Suzuki GT750. I probably have most of a GT750; minus a few major cosmetic items, but I have may be 3 engines. I have a complete engine from a GSX750 because the gearbox parts are an upgrade in the GT750.
Commando-wise I don’t have much in the way of cycle parts, but the better part of 2 engines. I’m still buying stuff on eBay but rarely sell anything. How about the rest of you? Are you mostly either buyers or sellers? Anybody actually selling unwanted parts to finance the purchase of stuff they still need?
 
I have only a modest amount of parts but on the other hand have always been very careful to keep the stock original parts for my Commando when I modify or upgrade. For example I still have the original front disc calliper etc even though the bike now has a CNW front brake. I even have the original 1974 carbs. So if anyone (after I pass on !!!!) ever wants to take it back to original they can.

But other parts, for example off my old race bike, I usually hand on to other guys who don't have the same purchase options I had.
 
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I must have a half dozen BSA A10 engines in my stash as well as a few transmissions, mags, and a box full of various Amal carbs. Who knows what else is there amongst the boxes? When I restored my A10 many tears ago I bought anything I could find, even if I didn't need it. Now it's hard to find any body that wants any of it.
 
MikeG said:
I must have a half dozen BSA A10 engines in my stash as well as a few transmissions, mags, and a box full of various Amal carbs. Who knows what else is there amongst the boxes? When I restored my A10 many tears ago I bought anything I could find, even if I didn't need it. Now it's hard to find any body that wants any of it.
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I'd buy them from you in a heartbeat if I were closer
I built my A10 from parts in 1986 I still love it
 
MikeG said:
I must have a half dozen BSA A10 engines in my stash as well as a few transmissions, mags, and a box full of various Amal carbs. Who knows what else is there amongst the boxes? When I restored my A10 many tears ago I bought anything I could find, even if I didn't need it. Now it's hard to find any body that wants any of it.
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You have any A65 barrels? 66 Lightning.😂😂
 
Let's see...
Spare 850 cases
Spare 850 barrells & pistons
Spare cams

2 spare RZ cranks (new)
9 spare RZ cylinders
10 new pair of pistons & rings
3 sets of gaskets & seals
Tires for everything
 
As car mad impecunious youths we'd scour the local scrap yards, and if we found any with 'our car' in would strip it of anything and everything we could afford or carry...
Most of which never ever got used!!!
Didn't carry that over to bikes, though. Couldn't 'hoard' P11 spares 'cos you couldn't find them, and luckily now Commando is so well catered for, everything I've 'upgraded' or renewed has gone straight to ebay...
 
I must have had every combination of exhausts ever fitted to Triumph triples and still have them. Got two sets of rayguns all wrapped up
you know .............just in case !
 
I still have a set of ace bars that were on my yr5 when I was 17
I have a bucket of useless pistons somewhere
And one or two other bits kicking around ahem!
 
Mostly stuff leftover from when I re did my 72 Commando. I replaced nearly everything with stainless so bolts , axles , chrome front fender & painted stays , rims . Have a pretty good original seat , carbs . Don’t know why I kept the valves and guides that I replaced but I did . Kept the bearings that felt ok - also at one point I thought I would put a TLS front brake on it for looks but thought better of it and stayed with the disc .I bought the correct fork slider for the drum brake along with a front hub/drum but never did buy the brake plate , shoes etc. Wound up drilling the rotor and having it Blanchard ground so I bought another rotor and did both at the same time to have a spare . Sold off some things - tail light and can’t recall what else . Had a new tape wrapped main harness from RGM . Decided I would rather have cloth so I sold it to a forum member at half price and sent it to him in good faith - took forever to get paid . Don’t worry , it’s not one of the regulars - he only pops up once in a great while when he needs help or parts .
I keep all the old bushes as they come in handy at times for other non critical machining projects.
If anyone needs something , reach out - I may have it .
 
Used main bearings - LOTS. Used pistons - many, including the kind that lose their tops. 35 bikes or bikes in parts. About 20 fenders I'll never use. Wow! Need to call the junk man! Finally gave a guy three big boxes of carbs to turn in for cash. Cranks, heads, cases, etc. Every room in my house except bathrooms has parts and/or motorcycles.
 
MikeG said:
I must have a half dozen BSA A10 engines in my stash as well as a few transmissions, mags, and a box full of various Amal carbs. Who knows what else is there amongst the boxes? When I restored my A10 many tears ago I bought anything I could find, even if I didn't need it. Now it's hard to find any body that wants any of it.
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A BSA A10 frame is worth having.
I have almost a second 850 motor and a gear box. A start of a project. However I do not do bike things for money.
 
trident sam said:
I must have had every combination of exhausts ever fitted to Triumph triples and still have them. Got two sets of rayguns all wrapped up
you know .............just in case !
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That reminds me... two stock exhausts for Merlin, a second set of TORS muffs,
Tiger 1050 TORS, and stock, RZ350 US with cats, Canadian set as well.
 
I consider myself an opportunist! What ever my hobby, I purchase spares (cheap) I may need in my future. Hopefully they will increase in value. 5 Chrysler engines - 4 Norton engines and transmissions. OK I'm a hoarder!
 
marshg246 said:
Used main bearings - LOTS. Used pistons - many, including the kind that lose their tops. 35 bikes or bikes in parts. About 20 fenders I'll never use. Wow! Need to call the junk man! Finally gave a guy three big boxes of carbs to turn in for cash. Cranks, heads, cases, etc. Every room in my house except bathrooms has parts and/or motorcycles.
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Mr. Marsh, are you married? My wife has a passive-aggressive way of discouraging hoarding. She mixes camping gear, old ski boots, and bicycle gear in amongst the Triumph air cleaners, brake rotors and such, which disrupts my organization system. I do have a drawer that is just old MKIII starter parts and another with springs of different rates that I no longer know what they go to or the color codes, and another with BMW electrics, much of which I can no longer identify, then there are engine plates to ?, mirrors, levers, cables, peices of 530 chain, bars for British and European bikes, some crash bars, a complete 19" commando wheel and drum brake assembly, many far out-dated tires, some NOS some just abandoned for a better tread pattern, it goes on and on like that. I deliberately hoard spark plugs because NAPA no longer stocks (even in the warehouse) such once common things as BP7ES or AC 42 or Champion J6J. What if I die before she does? She has no idea what most of it is. The bikes she has a pretty good handle on but there's a limited number of them.
 
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