The oldest kit you own...

errorist

Some Boardman era team Gan bib shorts from circa 1995. Chamois is a little thin but apart from that they are still really comfy.

oldwelshman

Raliegh road ace 1983 now with 105 and stuck n turbo, also use old rolls saddle on current track bike

dmh

My fonderist frame, bought new in 1980. Now rusting gracefully away on the turbo. Still with an ofmega chainset and (unused) modolo brakes.

mudcow007

My 1956 Royal Enfield "bullet" currently being rebuilt but is on the back burner until i figure out to leave it in its rusty goodness or get it powder-coated but lose all the decals

decisions decisions!!

how it looked when i rescued it

dearbarbie

my face

inthebreak

531SL Brian Rourke from 1984 with Shimano 600 52-42 and 6 cog freewheel. Still got the original dura ace levers but the brown rubbers perished. Any suggestions for replacement

1892

My commute bike is a 94 Ridgeback mountain bike. It hasn't fallen 2 bits yet.

smack148

a selle san marco "canguro" seat post mounted travel pack. Still holding good since 1991, although is starting to get holes where it rubs on the seat post, or more accurately seat posts plural 'cos it's seen out 3 bikes in it's time. I do wish I'd kept the sandwich pack that fitted under the top tube - remember them.

proto

A La Vie Claire winter jacket, same basic design as this. Bought it in 87/88 (I think, can't be sure). Wore it to the pub when I first got it, I was so chuffed with it.

I've worn it maybe half a dozen times in the last 20 years (mostly of these in the last five )

John Stevenson

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

I've used the same brush (to clean my bike) for 20 years, had 12 different handles and 8 different heads but the same brush

Have you still got your grandfather's axe too?

1892

John Stevenson wrote:

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

I've used the same brush (to clean my bike) for 20 years, had 12 different handles and 8 different heads but the same brush

Have you still got your grandfather's axe too?

Been watching only fools & horses?

1892

proto wrote:

A La Vie Claire winter jacket, same basic design as this. Bought it in 87/88 (I think, can't be sure). Wore it to the pub when I first got it, I was so chuffed with it.

I've worn it maybe half a dozen times in the last 20 years (mostly of these in the last five )

Still looks brand new.

John Stevenson

1892 wrote:

John Stevenson wrote:

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

I've used the same brush (to clean my bike) for 20 years, had 12 different handles and 8 different heads but the same brush

Have you still got your grandfather's axe too?

Been watching only fools & horses?

Reading Terry Pratchett. If I were a student of the classics I'd be citing the Ship of Theseus conundrum.

47p2

I've got a 1946 Humber Sports bike I take out for a spin every now and then

Loretta Damage

Still use my 1992 Kona Lavadome MTB. Converted it last summer to a single speed and gave it a re-spray, only really use it for nipping down the shop in the village or bashing around the campsite on our summer holidays in France but still love it.

Do my legs count as being old? They feel old.

pinno

Doubled up post, damn server.

pinno

A pair of sexy and curvy Cinelli Criterium handlebars bought in 1989. Scratched to bits but still going.

My mate spent 180 squid on a carbon handlebar and stem combo for his Look. I calculated that he is a massive 180gms lighter than my set up. Some people.

Yellow Peril

Pinarello001's ass after getting him out of Modways gaol.

freddiegrubb

Still using my DERMIC NEEDLE OILER, it's like a medical syringe you fill with oil ,the needle is quite blunt but perfect for delivering oil at 1 drop at a time,perfect for a bike & door hinges . Purchased for the princely sum of 1/11d, just short of 10p (using new speak) in 1956, eeh we were poor but appy.

pinno

Yellow Peril wrote:

Pinarello001's ass after getting him out of Medways gaol?.

I sneaked in to the girlie wing with the laundry, phew. Thanks YP - whats the opposite of a Mysogonist?

team47b

you were probably being rhetorical but if not the antonym of misogyny is philogyny, the love or fondness of women

pinno

team47b wrote:

you were probably being rhetorical but if not the antonym of misogyny is philogyny, the love or fondness of women

H - you are an old piece of kit, so therefore YOU are the oldest kit you own. That is more than rhetorical, that is like cycling existentialism. Mind you, you know what they say - "Mad dogs an Englishman..."

PS Notice the complete absence of aphostrophies?

PPS Can you post here when your sugar levels are at rock bottom - that would give all of us quite a giggle ? Ta.

PPPS And stop stalking me, it is spooking the hell out of my OH!

team47b

The BMW Isetta is my oldest piece of kit but I'm even older than my car!

PS It's apostrophes not apostrophies :roll:

PPS Blood Glucose was 70mg/dl this morning (normally 85) when I woke up, that's a hypo, but not enough for a typo.

PPPS Say Hi to OH for me

turboslave

Oakley Gen 1 M Frames, clear frames with blue iridium lenses, bought these way back prob early 90's, best value for money ever item.

Wonder if they are worth any more today?

steelcat

1997 Nike acg storm fit jacket and filet. The ones there were wearing in the mbuk video dirt. Jacket is too big on me now but is still waterprrof. Can't remember really waterproofing it!