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I'm moving again and couldn't take any bikes like last time. But I have space for some parts. Most of these were the same parts I brought 3 years ago. They should help get a build going when I get to my new home in Hawaii. My last bike went to a new home this morning.
I'm hoping to try my old Ross 52 sprocket with a 24 tooth freewheel. There's no telling what I'll come up with, but the bike riding is much better in Hawaii, so it'll be fairly soon.

This 59 DNB bike was adopted by a niece:
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This 24" 10 speed (originally) stayed in the family over here. I brought it over in 1982:

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This build went to a fellow student:

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This last one went to the neighbors down the street with a dozen kids:

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Most of these parts will go with me:

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I've already found a 41 Hawthorne, 49 CWC, and a Dyno frame on craigslist, but I'll do a lot of digging once I'm there. Or have my Schwinn frame with beehive springer shipped from Florida. My plan is to have just one bike, so I'll spend more time riding.
 
Godspeed on you travels.

Always a bummer starting from scratch. Had a metal dual door cabinet full of every knickknacks paddy whack give a bike a bone thing you could think of......till I moved to Norcal.... );
 
Half the fun is finding more stuff.
I forget who it was, but when I left Florida in 2013, I filled up a guy's pickup with frames, and file cabinets full of parts. We kept loading until the truck couldn't hold any more.
 
Nope, He bought my last 3 bikes though,
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and I wound up buying the red Schwinn frame back later, after I already left the states. It's at my brother's house along with the beehive springer I forgot I had.

To fit the filing cabinets in the back of the truck (of whoever it was) we had to lay them on their sides. All the parts were scattered inside them, he must have been dropping parts along the highway on the way home, Tampa or St. Petersberg Florida I think. It must've been a mess to clean up but there were tons of stuff in them. The 55 Newsboy frame showed up later in a build off, the Pepperbox Special.
 

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