@Anibyl asks:
Q5. For how long a part should sit in a parts bin until it's time to get rid of it?
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@ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite #BikeNite A5: Until it gets used? 😇
@ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite #BikeNite A5. I don't understand the question. Get rid of something that is functional? What for?
At some point I will try to find someone it can be functional for more immediately, but I will not throw out things that aren't trash. I recognize this can be a liability...
@ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite A5 #BikeNite I used some centrelock rotor lockrings I'd had sat in a box for 18 years just the other month on a new wheelset. So I'd say 19 years minimum.
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@pete @ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite #bikenite A5: time is an illusion, junk box time doubly so :-)
@Anibyl @bikenite A5. I've let stuff sit for too long. But long enough to realize that it's time to give it away.
A friend has parts that he's finally starting to shed. He was browsing online ads and saw someone trying to sell a bunch of random parts, all together as a kit and was interested for a moment, but then thought better of it. We talked about how it must be so much easier to sell the entire bin rather than a part one transaction at a time.
#BikeNite A5: Even if it isn't useful now, it may be useful sometime in the future. I don't understand this "get rid of it" of which you speak.
I have parts bins for bicycles, electronics, computers, candle making, woodworking, ever growing, ever growing...
@ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite
A5. Until you're completely certain that thumb shifters and centre-pull mtb brakes aren't going to make a comeback
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@hyenachow @ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite Centre-pull was on option I considered for my recent commuter bike build.
@ascentale @Anibyl #BikeNite A5 Only long enough to see you don’t need it and can pass it along to someone who can use it — as Santa Cruz Bike Church did on May 7, 2014 https://bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations/acknowledgements-dress-up-challenge-prize-donors, so we could sort those parts (pictured) for use in Monterey County Probation Department Youth Center bike tech class https://bikemonterey.org/probation-dept-youth-center-bike-education.html @bikenite
@ascentale
A5: my ambition is to keep them as little as possible. If they are dead they go to the recycling and if not they go on eBay/WhatsApp for the Cycling club.
In practice, it sometimes take a bit of time. I recently sold the SRAM crankset that I had replaced with a GRX 16 months ago.
Child seat going on the bay now (and I have not used it for 18 month)
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@ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite Until your executor of your estate deals with your hoarding?
@ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite A5: until it becomes useful or unusable.
@ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite #BikeNite A5. Until you no longer have a bicycle that fits it. Until you find someone that needs it.
@ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite A5. You never throw away parts.
Last year I helped my dad replace the bookshelves in the den that he built before I was born. He still had some of the hardware from the original build, and we were able to use it in the new build - almost forty years later.
@ascentale @Anibyl @bikenite #BikeNite A5. Great question. I can't answer on the bicycle front, but I am (desperately) trying to limit my accumulation of stuff that I won't use within a year (on multiple fronts). I generally look at things and if it's been a year or two of not being used, and NO plans to be used, I try to give it away or use it. That said, every once in awhile I have need for something and ABSOLUTELY kick myself for having gotten rid of it, LOL.