Certain parts are exceedingly hard to source right now. Good quick releases are pretty much non-existent. Good being internal cam, steel axle, nice design. Front derailleurs useful for touring wide range doubles and triples is another. 9 or 10 speed rear derailleurs with a silver finish, these are basically vapor ware. 1” threaded headsets with replaceable bearings (IE not that Chris King no-replacement bearings nonsense) is of course another. Are these prices high? No, they are not. They’re reflective of the fact that this stuff is NOS, has been in a warehouse for years, and every year someone had to pay inventory tax on it. If anything, the prices are low. There’s no combo deals, or free shipping, the price is the listed price + whatever shipping costs to get to you. Probably 9 bucks if you are in the states.
I’ve got a pretty good stash of the following New Old Stock stuff, some in original boxes, some not, like the XT skewers: Early 90’s XT skewers, silver with black rubber on the QR lever, and a black o ring on the acorn nut, which is steel. The nice finish. Probably the beefiest QR pair ever made by Shimano. This is way before everything Shimano made was black or grey. $85 a pair. Early-Mid 90’s XTR Skewers. Anodized silver, elegant as all get out. Best XTR skewer ever made. This was before everything went all grey. 1st or 2nd gen. Elegant enough for the nicest road bike, just cut off 5mm from the end of the rear skewer. $100 a pair. Shimano 6500 Ultegra headsets: Silver, classic. What Riv’s used to come standard with. 1” threaded, 26.4 crown race. $100 Campagnolo Athena headsets: Silver, one of the nicest looking Campy headsets in my opinion. $140 American Classic Skewers: Black with silver lever. Ultra light for the time, about as light as a skewer can get and still be internal cam. Aluminum acorn nut and cam nut. That makes them fine for any rim brake set up, but less than ideal for discs, as they can’t bite into the drop outs. $45 a pair. Campagnolo Centaur braze on front derailleurs: Will index for 9 or 10 speeds, friction for 7-11 speeds. Ideal for a wide range double, like a 46/26 or a 50/30. In some circumstances it will work for a triple. $90 XTR M952/953 front derailleurs: 28.6 clamp, bottom pull. Classic, gorgeous XTR triple front mech for rings up to 46t. One of the best triple derailleurs ever made. 8 speed index, 7-11 speed friction. $65 Shimano CX70 braze on front derailleurs: Best front derailleurs shimano made in the 2000’s. Stiff, nice looking, Ultegra level. Triple or Double, up to a 48t big ring. I’ve had these shift through a 46/20 range before. Worked great, even without a middle ring. $100 Campagnolo Touring Triple Rear Derailleurs, mid 2000s. 39t capacity. Beautiful polished silver. You can do a 28t rear cassette with no mods, or a 34 with a wolf tooth road link. $210 Holler if you want any of this stuff! Transactions thru paypal only. -James james(at)analogcycles(dot)com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/97fc54c4-70ef-4bed-80b9-1e90ab3b1a4cn%40googlegroups.com.
