Originally Posted by
StillBiking@71
If, as you say, "The cycling shop is very well known for having an enormous variety of every different bicycle part you can possibly imagine" then those parts are, in fact, the "essence and character" of your shop.
If you want to continue running the business, then you should keep the parts, create a good inventory of exactly what you have, then creatively display some of the gems that bring people from all over the world to your shop, store the rest of the parts.
I believe the purpose of the business is to
sell parts for profit.