cudak888 

Bet those would go fast on the Sales forum. Especially the 1980's Blackburn one.

-Kurt

bark_eater 

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The trick will be coming to terms with not having enough time to build a dozen fully ascessorized touring bikes much less ride them anywhere. Now six is a reasonable number.... But then theres the Mountain Tourers, Moutain Bikes, Country Bikes, and the Sport Tourers. And the kid is getting big.....

cudak888 

I see it this way: Profit from all flips go into purchasing much better bicycles (or similar projects) that are perfectly suited to each specific need. In a way, it's upcycling your hoarding, while also making sure other upcyclers are able to get the parts they need to finish their builds.

-Kurt

RCMoeur 

I will neither confirm nor deny that a similar, um, collection may exist somewhere on this property. And dagnabbit, someday I am gonna put that used Jandd Expedition rack on my aluminum cruiser, but the existing swoopy Bor Yueh is still working just well enough to not justify the swap effort...

In our household, the bike stuff is usually well under control for about 8 months of the year (at Dear Wife's orders). But from September through December, when fixing up dozens of donated bikes for the local church and foster care organization, somehow one's back porch ends up covered with dozens of bikes in various stages of rehab. A small sample:

With standing orders from aforementioned Dear Wife that all those bikes find new homes by December 21st. And since she can kill me in my sleep and get away with it, the response is "Yes, ma'am."

Classtime 

I love these threads. But I no longer share them with my wife.

t2p

I prefer to use the term accumulate instead of hoard

I associate hoard with worthless garbage

clubman 

I'm a collector of hoards. Most of those hoards include bike parts and frames.
These are organized, serious hoards, not to be taken lightly. They are scrutinized, identified and well labelled, for example...'Hoard #1' and 'Hoard #10', in case a potential buyer wants to buy just such a hoard.
Contact me if you need a hoard...I can help.

Schweinhund

I like it. Stay away from the hoarder estate sales where the good stuff goes cheap and early.
Speaking of hoarder estate sales, something to sell about is a company in the bay area that does estate sales.
They have some wonderful finds if you're in the greater SF bay area. https://www.somethingtosellabout.com/

repechage

I see the view that parts are wanted to be quickly set down for easy pick up later.
trouble is it can become a pile.
I suggest trays. Spread things out so easy to look for.
piles of trays just has a better look than pile of parts

georges1

I prefer collect because I prefer to buy what is rare or uncommon as a frame and then have it assembled. I think that I will be done after that 4thMTB build for 2023. Maybe I think of a third road bike but that is a much more long term project as there are much more important priorities.

AdventureManCO 

Haha, that's when you know you've reached tipping point. I'm there or pretty close. "See hunny look at these crazy guys and their crazy piles of bike stuff" keeps getting less and less mileage

bark_eater 

The hard line for me is collecting just to let rot. I really try not to leave bikes out side.

When I moved camp south, I was not prepared for the change of environment, and Watched in horror as the woodwork rotted off a couple of canoe's. Small craft are a lot like bikes, in that they have negative value to most people, thus people will start giving them to you. Of course fiberglass handles neglected a lot beter than wood or steel.

Drillium Dude 

Here's the first Google pic that comes up when I type hoard into Google Search:



And here's the first pic that comes up when I type collection:



It's all about order, cleanliness, and neatness I suppose. I'm down to a collection of seven, but if they were dirty, dusty, in various states of disrepair, and strewn around my basement with a ****load of other junk mixed in, I'd likely refer to them as my hoard

DD

Murray Missile 

I wish to invoke my rights under the 5th Amendment yet again........

wrk101

Just picked up a vintage hifi outfit. Speakers are JBL C50s. Thorens TT, McIntosh amp. My hifi setups took a massive step up with this purchase.

I also have a couple sets of KLH and a set of Advents. Something will be leaving as I have about 14 feet of new gear coming in….

tjfastback66

While in Florida at our vacation property I bought a vintage Cilo for about $100 (Beautiful Reynolds 531 Frameset). While talking to my neighbor and referencing myself as a "Collector" and admitting that I had about 8 bikes, his comment to me was: Sounds like an "Obsession". I had never thought about it Quite like that...

t2p

t2p

cudak888 

It never fails - whenever photos like that show up, they've always been captured with a potato for a camera.

That's also an unhealthy collection of Ashtabula forks. There's a difference between collecting and keeping the entire world's parts supply for yourself

-Kurt

Murray Missile 

Obsession?! Eight bikes is just the "starter kit".

BFisher

Just remember when searching for a part that eludes you, and you initially think, "Wow, these must be getting scarce."

No. There are almost certainly still thousands of said part sitting unused in some dude's lair.

Spaghetti Legs 

If he sells them though, then he won’t have them any more.

I consider myself to fit precisely in the overlapping circles of collector and hoarder. I am definitely a bottom bracket hoarder. I looked through my box of these a few days ago to help answer a question here and it was at the same time embarrassing and comforting to see them all. I don’t reflect on my basement full of bike stuff but just yesterday I gave some old friends a tour during a visit and there was a collective jaw drop which made me wonder if I might be a weirdo.

nlerner

I suppose I fall in the camp of semi-organized hoarders. But I'm hoarding not necessarily to own every Ashtabula fork I can find, but because early in my C&V building experience, I was quick to re-sell anything that seemed in excess, but before long found myself buying those very same items for some present need. Of course, that can get taken too far--I have lots of pretty crappy and broken parts around mostly because I figure I'd someday need that cable clamp or barrel adjuster (and I often do, just not a dozen of them). As long as I'm not tripping over stuff trying to find something, I'm okay--though a few too many times I simply can't find something I know I have because there are just too many possible places I might have put it!

masi61

Disorganized collector with grand intentions of a great organizational system here. I have thought about using slat wall, or building custom cubicles using some high quality baltic birch plywood and somehow having a section for all the major parts of the vintage road bike components that I seem to ahem... hoarded.

TugaDude

I have more bikes than my wife would like, but definitely not as many that I'd be considered a hoarder. Most of them, for better or worse, are hanging from the ceiling of my garage, so they aren't really "in the way", so there's that.

My biggest issue is that I went though a period where I was wrenching on them regularly, tweaking and cleaning and lubing, while now I mostly ignore them. And even riding has become less and less. But I know something will kick start my enthusiasm again, it always seems to. And maybe next year I will complete the few project bikes I have. And then it will be time to decide which ones to sell off. I guess I'm reaching that stage and that age where I need to be realistic, and bikes that I simply don't have time for will have to be purged.