It seems everytime I am going to build a new project I go through in my head items I could use on the build except I sold it! I have had items that I never could have had as a kid but since collection I have learned of even more really great items. SOme of thise great items I did not even know how great they were until now looking back.

A few -

78 Team Mongoose frame
Sunshine blue BMX stamped hubs
Araya 7C (first gen with 80 ga. spoke holes)
NOS Moosegoose in the box (blue)
Hutch Pro Bars
1st Gen Profile cranks
2 Proline forks
76 Squareback
Early Nickel undrilled forks
Motomag I's
Cook Bros: bars, number plate, stem, frame and fork

I am not saying all were spectacular but ones I look back on thinking - I could use those for this or that. Are there parts or bikes that you wish you had back from your new collecting habit or maybe within the last 5 years?? Remember, but NEVER had as a kid!

83 JMC Shadow and a DB Harry Leary turbo, excuse me while I go be sick...........

A few years back I bought a CW F/F from Lou. Most of the rest of the bike too to make it complete. I ended up hurting my wrist right when I got it and couldn't really build it up. It was hurting pretty bad and I wanted nothing to do with wrenches at the time. After a while I got better but took some of the parts and put them on other bikes, so the F/F sat on a shelf (in my living room) for a couple years until I finally sold it back to Lou. A couple months later I decided I really wanted to build that bike that I was planning on way back then when I bought it. I had another frame, all the parts still, plus some others I added or switched out, but I sold those forks and I had the worst time finding some others. So those forks are the one main thing I regreted selling. Luckily though, I did find some a couple weeks ago, woohoooo!!!!

I am in the process of selling off most of my collection and I am already refretting it. In the last two days I sold my Nomura and an NOS set of Kastan cranks.
Now where am I going to get either of those again without paying triple what I just sold them for? I have been collecting for like ten years and acquired some really nice stuff, but it is time to liquidate. Stay tuned for more items being sold in the for sale section.

1st Generation Profile Cranks Complete - got 'em for a song. The good thing is they allowed me obtain the object(s) of my desire.

I know your pain of liquidation.. Sometimes it has to be done. I may in the same boat soon.

I hated selling a nearly complete survivor Silver Streak... It's in a really good collector's hands in the UK... but it's the only thing I really wish I didn't sell.

I've sold.. a CW Phaze, Titron pedals just like the ones above but in red color, a complete Supergoose, NOS in the bag Hutch stem, nos Suntour MP 1000's, etc in the last few months... and surprisingly I don't really miss any of those things even though I thought they were supercool when I had them.

before the internet (early-90s) i decided to purchase a bike for the first time since i was a kid. a Robinson looptail with flight cranks from the recycler for ........$85! i loved this bike and had a new found love for bikes again, after a few years of solid use i sold it for $200 cause i owed someone money and wanted to 'do the right thing'. I figured with some digging around i could pick something comparable up since no one cared about old bmx anymore........OOPS!

i forgot to mention that it was a looptail 24" cruiser!

DY8406. 'nuf said.

www.pszenny.com/jmc.htm

Whats the story? You didnt know its history and sold it?


I lol'ed @ "Drew making dad nervous." in your link.

Awesome link btw.

Oh no, I knew the history the day I bought it thanks to Mr. Melton and the seller. I just wish I never sold it. It was an AWESOME bike, but I can guarantee it would have ended up on that silly thread about eBay records if they knew what the buyer paid for it.

let's see what I regret selling,

white Judge
chrome judge
candy red Judge
Futuristic black judge
hutch aerspeeds
5 sets of titrons
1st get hutch cranks
SE BD-III
JMC Andy Patterson F/F and Bars original chrome
nos in the box Hutch mag/ti hubs
SST hubs
VDC gorrila with matching cruiser bars

and the real killer, my 1 of 1 VDC 1/2 loop frame ( just glad Flanelcamel is doing it up right)

there's more, but this has made me bummed out enough....

Wow, several Hutch regrets, every and I mean every Hutch item I've ever found was given away, honest.

set of 1/2" beartrap pedals
2 stems
large box of unopened cruiser decal sets
nos laid back post
number plate

each one made me feel good

but I can't say I regret selling anything as a collector, nowadays everything is replaceable, I do regret selling my personal race bikes in the mid-80's though...priceless mistake.

Indeed.

What I regret the most is leaving my fully decked out Nora Cup GT that I built up by mowing lawns and swapping and trading everything under the sun, out in front of my friends house while I went inside to get him to come out and go riding. I was in there for no more than 5 minutes and came back out and it was gone. It still makes me sick to my stomach thinking about it, 20 years later.