Show us your empty boxes!
05-22-20, 10:59 AM
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Show us your empty boxes!
Because... Empty boxes! Right?
I mean, is a C&V bike build really complete without at least one empty box or other form of packaging left behind as evidence to our involvement in this impassioned hobby and lifestyle?
So this is it. This is the thread. The official thread where we pay homage to the lowly, the lonely, yet beloved empty C&V packaging that finds its way into our lives.
Allow me to kick it off with a few glamour shots. A surviving box, which until recently, was home to a NOS pair of puntapiedi, or “footrests” if you will.
Behold, the box:
AND FINALLY... the kill shot. 100% Emptiness!
I mean, is a C&V bike build really complete without at least one empty box or other form of packaging left behind as evidence to our involvement in this impassioned hobby and lifestyle?
So this is it. This is the thread. The official thread where we pay homage to the lowly, the lonely, yet beloved empty C&V packaging that finds its way into our lives.
Allow me to kick it off with a few glamour shots. A surviving box, which until recently, was home to a NOS pair of puntapiedi, or “footrests” if you will.
Behold, the box:
AND FINALLY... the kill shot. 100% Emptiness!
Last edited by deux jambes; 05-22-20 at 01:12 PM.
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05-22-20, 11:23 AM
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Does a liner disqualify?
Dura Ace Crane derailleur
Campy hubs
Speaks for itself
Dura Ace Crane derailleur
Campy hubs
Speaks for itself
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05-22-20, 12:56 PM
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How about an empty bag?
05-22-20, 01:45 PM
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The little cartoon bike rider has a name, but I forgot it. Probably someone here knows. He was on most of the TA 'Tour de France' water bottles in the 70s. I remember buying one at Thrifty's for like 3 bucks including the cage...
Wish I still had it.
Image of a bottle pilfered from ebay or the interwebs or something:
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Chains, freewheel & pedals
Basement31 by iabisdb, on Flickr
Hub box on top
Basement28 by iabisdb, on Flickr
Basement31 by iabisdb, on Flickr Hub box on top
Basement28 by iabisdb, on Flickr
05-22-20, 03:18 PM
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"There's one more box that'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool"
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Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool"
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Back in the day a buddy decided to build himself a "box bike." Began with a Serotta frame box we'd discarded and then began collecting the component boxes to go with it, Campy headset box, Phil BB box, etc., as they became available through shop business. Never completed, as I recall.
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I bought these for a wheel build and couldn’t believe they were in the original pkg. There are still some inside so technically not empty.
05-22-20, 08:59 PM
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I'm trying to break myself of keeping original boxes. I got into a spat with my ex-father-in-law years ago over throwing out some original boxes for stuff I planned to resell. He didn't understand that some collectors actually want those ratty original boxes.
Nowadays I'll keep boxes just for the return/exchange period, then out they go.
Nowadays I'll keep boxes just for the return/exchange period, then out they go.
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I'm trying to break myself of keeping original boxes. I got into a spat with my ex-father-in-law years ago over throwing out some original boxes for stuff I planned to resell. He didn't understand that some collectors actually want those ratty original boxes.
Nowadays I'll keep boxes just for the return/exchange period, then out they go.
Nowadays I'll keep boxes just for the return/exchange period, then out they go.
05-23-20, 12:00 PM
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all kidding aside, I'm actually enjoying this thread
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05-23-20, 12:09 PM
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Wrong hobby...not all empty
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I thought, this thread was going to be terrible...I WAS SORELY MISTAKEN. This is excellent, sadly I don't really have much to share all of my boxes are newer most of my vintage stuff is unboxed in parts bins. No NOS for me.
05-23-20, 12:27 PM
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A bit run-of-the-mill, but it's what I have.
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05-23-20, 12:43 PM
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You couldn't start this thread 2 weeks ago? I just thew out about a dozen boxes. Here's what I saved.
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