[Closed] Frankenbikes - whats in your spares pile?

inbred frame with bent rear triangle
2 sets of knackered fox forks - think one is straight steerer / qr, the other is tapered / 15mm
pair 26" wheels (15 mm front)
pair 29" wheels (qr)
pair 700c wheels (qr but road bike sized)
seatpost that doesn't fit the inbred
middleburn rs7 crankset with uno ring, matching square taper BB and a selection of differing sizes of singlespeed cogs to match both 26" and 29" wheels
bb5 disk brakes (possibly road only - do they have a different pull?)
8 speed Sora STIs (triple front) with matcing 8 speed cassette
couple of front mechs
three or four rear mechs
various handlebars
a couple of stems
perhaps a seatpost clamp

offers welcome 😉

It always feels like I have enough for another bike, but when I've tried it always turns out I'm short of one or two vital bits while having a plethora of (e.g.) pedals and tyres. I don't want to go and catalogue the whole lot though. I think there will be a lot.

And anyway, when the wife asks how many bikes I have, I only count the ones that are actually built up 😉 It makes the number sound slightly more acceptable.

I built a Frankenbike out of a pile of very random bits. It has an MTB frame, forks and rear wheel with a 700c front wheel and brake lashed on. It is finished in "cack brown and grunge" and has a rear rack mostly held on with cable ties.
The most expensive component was the Abus cable lock just in case there are any really desperate bike thieves out there.

I've probably got enough bits for a couple of full bikes although there would be a few oddities in there as the frames are all mountain bike ones but all my spare cranks are road ones other than an Alfine one I think. Got various drop bar shifter/brake levers as well. I suspect I could make an interesting gravel bike based on an Inbred frame running drop bars and a mix of road and MTB drivetrain.

I vastly reduced my spares pile earlier in the year...it netted over £2000 😳

I need [i]It's only a bargain if you've got a use for it[/i] tattooed on the inside of my eyelids.

I'm in the process of developing a 2nd spares pile at my London flat as I've replaced the drivetrains and wheels on my road bike and my wife's one in the last couple of weeks. More of a problem 'cause I don't have space down here though - up in Scotland a corner of my garage is dedicated to a hueg pile of cycling bits.

I built myself a carrera kraken with Stans olypmic wheels and a pair of coil lyriks at one point, rode it once 😆

I think it's worse when you discover you can build a perfectly sensible, high quality bike- I bought a super-cheap carbon xc bike frame a while back and apart from borrowing the wheels out of my commuter and buting a new headset, I've built a perfectly respectable XC race bike out of stuff that I had "just lying around". Not healthy!

And in my head, that bike cost me £110 because it was all just "spare" and I can ignore the fact that if I sold all the bits I'd get a grand or more.

I'd need a frame, a seatpost, and probably some gear cable outer (might have enough bits if the frame has cable stops, rather than full length outer).
Have...
enough groupset bits for a full XT 3x9
more pairs of pedals than bikes
spare bb bearings
a complete unused headset
spare gear inners
complete set of formula brakes, discs, adapters, etc. (probably need new pads)
unopened bleed kit for the above
magura menja 100mm fork
bonty bars, hope stem, ritchey grips
fizik saddle
there's a complete set of wheels, tubes, tyres in the store room
what have I missed?

Was dumping a load of stuff in the recycling the other evening, and someone had dumped half a bike by the electricals recycling container. It did briefly go through my mind that an N+1 could cost me nothing more than consumables.

Daffy - I vastly reduced my spares pile earlier in the year...it netted over £2000

I'm riding 2 "built from spares" bikes and still have a small pile of bits.....
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If I got a frame I could build a hardcore hardtail with 650b Sektors and Reynolds wheels and a Campy Record 10 speed groupset and Avid codes mounted on drop bars.

Bent chainstay Rock lobster 853 frame, woodchipper handlebars, campag centaur chainset, very narrow carbon disc front wheel, Brooks leather mud flap...hmmm

Thats the idea. top work flashes!

I've got an old Scott frame, with original front hub, rims, red rear hope hub, Mary bars, associated child carrying paraphernalia and a rack. I took it in to work the other day with child carrying things removed, and apart from getting a bit muckier than with my usual commuter, it was OK (It took 2-3mins longer over 11 miles) and enabled me to take a more interesting route to the bike shop on my way home!

All I'll say is that I found another 2 frames up in the loft a few weeks ago that I'd forgotten about. Reckon i could get 3 or 4 26" wheeled hardtail/ rigid geared or ss, plus a couple of road bikes. That's before I think about rebuilding the '92 Klein or '72 Le Jeune which are just in bits to save space. With 4 of my own & 3 of my wife's bikes already filling available space I think I may have a problem...

I don't get it. The only 'spares' I have are consumables. I generally get a couple more than I need when I have to purchase just 'cos it's easier to have them at hand. Things like gear cable inner/outer, (probably not even a full kit) and brake pads. So my frankenbike would consist of

1" headset, (bought in error for a mate once)

I use stuff until it's knackered, then it gets binned. Am I a particular freak in that respect?

With the addition of some drop bars and a 1" quill stem I could rebuild my old Coppi frame. It'd have a Bonty front wheel and a Mavic rear. Might have to go with flat bars as the only shifters/brakes I've got are a Altus STi set I removed from my sis-in-laws Apollo. Got some big-ol ski bar ends I could put on the end too, that I refused to put back on her bike when I fixed it!
Do road quill stems fit 27.2 (was that the size before 31.8?) mtb bars?

A silly part of me thinks buy a Fatty Trail frame, BB and crankset and I could then get a second fatbike in the garage from all the spares I have knocking about these days! 😆

Well I'm short an actual frame and I don't think I have any crank arms spare.

But if we went 9 speed and 26" I could easily make two complete bikes. I'd have to build five or six before I ran out of handlebars or stems!

Do road quill stems fit 27.2 (was that the size before 31.8?) mtb bars?

I use stuff until it's knackered, then it gets binned. Am I a particular freak in that respect?

Mine is mainly from upgrades and / or trying stuff. For example the pikes were bought cheap secondhand after I bought a new frame and wanted to try it with different length forks. I found out the length the bike was sweetest at and then bought forks to suit

Built a Frankenbike out of £80 frame (new from on-one), £50 forks and spares I had lying around. Frame, fork and a few extra bits = £230.

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Turns out its the fastest and lightest bike I own and is brilliant (for me!) for XC use! Its intended as a baby trailer+weeride carrier. Forks are rather carp though (and heavy). I've since added my old Hilo dropper and built a new rear wheel (pro2 evo on archex, DT comp £60!).

Does it count if you buy a frankenbike for £80, then swap so many parts you could practically rebuild the original bike?

(My ninth hand bargain fixed gear bike is now a singlespeed, mostly made of bits taken off my commuter, which is now mostly made of bits taken off my good bike, which now only has the frame and saddle in common with the original bike.)

I have two tyres and a retro LX triple crankset with questionable tapers.

I built up a Frankenbike from my old RoadRat frame and some bits lying around. I wanted a new bike and one had to go (N+1 wasn't working in this case) so I gave it to these guys...
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Hopefully someone is making more use of it than I did.

The problem is, I'm now looking at my Rock Lobster frame and Pace forks thinking all I need is some 26" wheels and some cables and I can make a new bike from the stuff lying around.. 😀

[i]just can't leave that hanging there. Before 31.8mm MTB stems were 25.4mm, (most) road stems were 26.0mm.[/i]

Thanks! Couldn't remember and couldn't be bothered to look it up. I knew it'd bug someone if wrong 🙂

As for binning stuff! I mean, come on, you never know when a set of steel ski bar ends will come in useful!

Many years ago a mate looked at my spares pile and said with a cheap frame you'd have a full bike! £80 Saracen Zen steel frame and various cables later and my frankenbike was born. Turned into my go-to bike, got a much better set of 140mm forks in a sale, got a better wheelset, got better brakes and so on. It is still a random build of what wheels are working with the right tyres.

Took it out the garage the other week as nothing else was in working condition and it is still brilliant. It is firmly back in regular rotation now, I have switched the tyres over so it now has two white wheels instead of a black and a white - that was only because the hub went on the black one though 🙂

I could build most of a road bike and either a Full mountain bike - fs or hardtail

Mainly its stuff so old its not worth trying to sell and I have a loft

Anyone want an cracked intense spider 100 mmm travel frame with knackered bearings or a Merlin Malt 1 - the very first one - that is about 15 years old?

Frankenback, SS cross thing. I bought new dropouts and bar tape for it.

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This frankenbike was a spares box job, quite liking it. 29+ front and 26 normal rear doesnt ride too bad at all.

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