What do I do with old parts?

So I just swapped out the stock shocks on my '05 R1200GS for a set of shiny new Ohlins. What do I do with the old ones? They have 58,xxx miles on them and the front looks like it was leaking. I live in an apartment in NYC, so storage space is at a premium, and my wife tolerates the amount of bike stuff I have clogging up the closet as it is.

If someone wants to pay for shipping, I'll gladly send them to you, provided that happens in the next two weeks.

Do I just chuck 'em in the trash?

I've got other pieces parts piling up, too.

What do y'all do with your old leftovers?

uh, the flea market? Right here on your very own adventure riding website.

I thought about that, but who would buy old, used shocks?

Well, I guess I can try.

Don't you have metal recycle there?

I would do pretty much what you have done, offer the old parts free, then recycle when nobody wants them but sometimes, people DO want them.

I once bought new rear springs for a BMW 2002 and later that day got a call from the dealer offering new price for my old ones because some poor bastard had a broken rear spring!
It's been all downhill from there but that was a great day.

Shit can them......If you keep saving all the little bits and bobs that come off you will be on "Hoarders" soon enough. HAHAHAHAAHA

Save em! then when you sell the bike you can put the factory shocks back on and sell the ohlins .

Let the buyer decide. Maybe a guy is selling his bike and wants to take off his Ohlins or Wilbers and sell them separately and needs stockers to replace.

When I sold my GSA prospective buyers acted like they could care less I had $1500 worth of Wilbers on the bike. Next time they can feel the same about the stockers and I will sell the aftermarket shocks separately.

Sold my old stockers later for $100 each.

Post it up, someone will most likely need it...and be willing to pay you for them.

If you have a time deadline, make it known...it may get someone off the fence.

Do what I've been doing since the second Nixon administration.

Save them.

Put em up in the rafters, in a disintegrating cardboard box under your kids wading pool, down in the basement with grandma's good china (that's too ugly to use).

Move them 5 or six times, trip over them, have them fall off the shelf onto your zori-clad foot and send you to the emergency room.

Reach for something useful and come up with a handful of oily, leacky, useless spooge that used to be the shock and realize you can no longer remember what vehicle they came from, THEM throw them out.

It's been working great for me!

Pretty muckin fuch. Lol. Stick em on fleabay and say goodbye NOW!

looking at ebay, they seem to have some decent value no matter the condition.

yOU ARE WISE! I am well down this path too...time for eBay...

Winner winner, chicken dinner!

Oh, you forgot one... keep them, forget where you put them, and then wind up buying new ones when you need them, after you spent 2 days tearing apart your entire life trying to find the old ones you know you have, to no avail, until about 12 minutes after you get the new ones installed, and realizing you actually put the old ones in the most logical place they could possibly go, so you leave them there... and the process repeats.

Yes, I have done this.

David...

Yes . . . this is also true . . . . . . but I figured I'd busted on myself enough for one post ;-}

You can also use the parts as a form of pseudo-currency. Basically, you convince your wife that they have some value and you will get around to selling them and that should help to recoup some of the money that you've been spending on new parts.

My wife has wised up to this trick.

That's what I get for marrying someone who is very attractive AND very smart.

Or for the inevitable rebuild in the future so you can keep riding.

Failing that, give them away to someone doing the same. Most who toss them regret it later.

Jim

yer in Queens, just toss them out the window.

Add me to the club of those that:

saves it
forgets it's there
needs it again for some reason
Swears I had it, but now can't find it anywhere, and assume I trashed it
orders/buys something else
finds the old part(s) literally the day later

or

saves it
forgets it's there, and what it is and what it is off of
finds it seven years later and wonders WTF it is
trashes it then