what is your oldest piece of cycling kit?

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Bradbury No 1 wheel building stand. They went out of business in the late 1920s.
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I can’t claim I slip these bad boys on regularly, but I keep them ready in case I have a retro ride on my 531c 80s Raleigh (here my shoes are placed lovingly on my Pakit cape)...

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rogerzilla wrote: 14 Oct 2021, 3:23pm I have a 1939 Sturmey-Archer AM that is used regularly. The frame it is used on may be pre-war but has proved impossible to identify.
Can you post some photos? :)
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A brooks leather saddle taken from a Hercules bike that I scrapped in 1961, keeping it 'just in case' :D
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Is the hole in the spoke key a facility for hanging it (on a nail?)
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I have a race jersey from 75, oldest pice of kit I use is a jacket from the 90s. Oldest tools I own are Edwardian..not really sure of the date.just know they came from my great grandfather’s cycle shop. I don’t use them, don’t think I use anything that is older than the late 90s
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Me !
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Just found this in the workshop.
Unused for years and years.
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A Campag large flange 32h steel barrel alloy flange front QR hub which I acquired s/h in 1958.The original cones were date stamped 1951 and were replaced about 25 years ago.It has been in regular use and has never needed adjustment,but every year it has received a full charge of Castrol car grease via the pinholes in the endcaps using an old medical syringe.The chrome on the barrel has gone and been replaced by red Japlac enamel.It is now in its 3rd or 4th rim and I expect it will outlive me.
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I have a 1978 Falcon Olympic and the Berthet pedals, Pete Salisbury shoes and Caradice saddle bag I bought shortly after. I have the odd tyre lever and spoke key from my dad - 30s, 40s? I also have the sales receipt for my first bike - a secondhand 17" 3sp Phillips I bought in 1960.
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A Dumbell spanner Dates back to 1956 the year I started cycling.
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Mick F wrote: 19 Oct 2021, 9:15am Just found this in the workshop.
Unused for years and years.
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Crikey. I hope you take greater care of the tools you do use, Mick :o
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Squire cable lock that I acquired from my brother some time in the mid-80s.

Possibly a TDC spanner of 70s vintage but I've not seen it for a while and may have lost it somewhere at the roadside :( .
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Davy wrote: 24 Oct 2021, 5:36pm A Dumbell spanner Dates back to 1956 the year I started cycling.
I started then, too - borrowed bike, though. Didn't start acquiring kit until I got my own bike a few years later.
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I have a white, cotton ‘fishnet’ (for want of the right description) t-shirt that I bought in 1982 and I use for cycling when the temperature is right. It is the perfect under-shirt; light, very breathable while adding a bit of warmth and far better at the job than many I have tried with modern fabrics.
The older I get the more I’m inclined to act my shoe size, not my age.
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