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Stopped by an old co-op in Portland last Saturday
I walked into this place I used to hang at in the 90s and every stand was still loaded with SunTour parts and random cottered cranks. Anyone else notice how hard it is to find a shop that still keeps NOS parts for older 3-speeds?
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nathan_thompson624d agoTop Commenter
Wait, you actually found a shop in Portland that still had SunTour stuff on the shelves? That's wild. Most places around here cleared that out back in the early 2000s for pennies. Finding NOS cottered cranks for a 3-speed is basically a miracle these days, I swear everyone just tosses them in the scrap bin.
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barbaragarcia4d ago
...and then the guy at the counter tried to sell me a set of NOS Sturmey-Archer shift cables from like 1972. I told @nathan_thompson62, it's like that place just time traveled. The cottered cranks were stacked in a cardboard box near the register, still wrapped in greasy brown paper from the 80s. I bought two just because I knew I'd never see them again. There's something weirdly satisfying about finding parts that have been sitting on a shelf longer than I've been alive.
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