Bike bits on your desk?

[Flyingpony]

On your desk at work, home, University, school or where ever, what kind of bike bit mementoes do you have on yours?

My desk has got one memento: a seriously worn Suzuki OEM 14 tooth front sprocket removed last month.

Nothing else significant on my bike has worn, broken or exploded :yes:

[sAsLEX]

I have an alram, various old regos a air duct a radar a radar mount

[Jonty]

my keys :yes:

[bugjuice]

do desktops count? I have ~400 that change to a new one every 15 mins. About a third of them are bike pics.. I also have a few photos of bikes around my desk and my bike too. Also my gear (when I ride in) and I'm trying to find a 636 for the top of my G5 (doesn't matter on colour, I'm gonna spray it orange!)..

[onearmedbandit]

A model of a GSXR750 (at work).

[Ixion]

Although they are completely invisible under the piles of computer crap, I do have, on my desk (assuming that the desktop still actually exists under there - clean desk, clean mind? yeah, sure. Empty desk, empty mind, i say), a piston from a 1926 (approx) Villiers, and a Bakelite pickup brush carrier from a Lucas K2F magneto. They have been there for years. Why they were ever there in the first place I have long since forgotten.

The age of stuff on my desk is measured by geological strata.

[Motu]

A cursoury glance at my desk shows nothing of interest,99% of it is related to things on wheels....and I evade looking at it all.

When my wife worked in an office she wanted a couple of paperweights - so I polished up and gave her a gudgeon pin from a Cummins motor out of the Kenworths I worked on,and a selfaligning roller bearing out of a vibrating road roller,it was about 150mm in dia and the inner race and roller cage would rotate in the outer race,they were real cool and no one tried to lift them from her desk.

[Badcat]

2 carbs for the vanvan - a larger cv and a dr200 flatslide.
oh, and a KTM tail light assembly.

[F5 Dave]

Fuel mixture kit I must build up & modify to become an EGT sometime to try on the racebike. Also there is a prototype quickshifter around here somewhere. One day. . .

And a cast of a YZF750 piston crown if I order those big bore pistons sometime.

[unhingedlizard]

i have a couple of shot tdr pistons....

In the garage, I have a clock made out of an old sprocket, and a glass coffee table made from two Nissan fairlady wheels and tyres.

[Waylander]

Have the old ider gears on my desks soon to be joined by a beat up gastank and chunk of a certain corner on a certain road up north.

[Kickaha]

A pair of Marzocchi Strada rear shock absorbers in bits and a picture of me and Phil coming around the Ruapuna Hairpin with the sidecar wheel in the air

[crashe]

awwww I have nothing on my desk from the bike.

All broken or replaced bits are out in the garage altogether in one box. :whistle:

[myvice]

I have my bike about 10 mts at the most from where I torture cages, er, work.
And a pik or two above my tool box. :yes:

[zadok]

Don't have a desk at work, but at home I only have my new bike as computer wallpaper.

[N4CR]

Hmm... Only a pair of slightly used 2000km brake pads. Crap ones too. If anyone wants to buy em for $20 bucks ill... :whistle: :devil2:

[R6_kid]

umm old number plate, old rego crap, various reminders to pay for registration :devil2: carby's from the GF250, sprokets and from time to time bits of the ZXR or atleast bits to do stuff to it....

[Beemer]

Currently? No bike bits - I'd be a bit worried if bits of my bike ended up on my desk at this stage in their life! I do have a model of an R1 and the insurance papers for the Goose, which arrived in the mail today. The pad is an old Britten one. On the floor behind me there's a pair of waterproof gloves (the rest of the gloves are in a chest of drawers in the same room) and a tank bag. Oh, and a pile of bike magazines.

On the wall unit in the dining room is trophy made from a carburettor - our club's economy run trophy, which I have won for the past two years. 31km per litre on the BMW - got told I'm not allowed to enter on it this year so it will be interesting to see how well the Goose does!

In my desk drawer there is a tiny bit that came off Tommi Makinen's car when he crashed in the Rally of NZ in about 1998. The bumper was too big to bring home...

[inlinefour]

However the bench in the workshop is another matter. Too much to list or remember... :ride:

[pete376403]

On my desk at work: Suzuki GS stator waiting for me to get around to rewinding it and a pile of assorted bike magazines but mainly bits of assorted computer related crap.

[spiller]

2 carbs for the vanvan - a larger cv and a dr200 flatslide.
oh, and a KTM tail light assembly.

By vanvan do you mean the Suzuki RV????

[Fryin Finn]

On my desk at work I have a bit of broken fairing from my old TRX (sniff I still miss it) and on my desk at home is the piston from my old XR 250 and a piston from my WR 450.

[Badcat]

By vanvan do you mean the Suzuki RV????

yep - a 2004 one though - the 200cc 4 stroke.
wanna buy one?
i may be selling it...
(sob)

[marty]

a scottoiler. LOTS of flying (nav) maps, a RH aftermarket mirror for a GSX400 or similar,

[pritch]

Desk at work has an OE Honda horn, which may have a more promising career as a paperweght than it did as a warning device. (I fitted a pair of FIAMM horns to the bike.)

No bits on the desk at home but three bike books /mags. And a right now, a glass of red :-)

[danb]

Ahh just the pic on my desktop.
http://www.computecnetworks.no-ip.com/desktop.jpg

Must get around to changing it as this pic has been up since before christmas. :rofl:

[Firefight]

work desk analy tidy.

home desk is a bomb site

workshop bench just right

[pyrocam]

work: KB on my screen all day.
home: the piston that seized on my coming up from hamilton

[spiller]

yep - a 2004 one though - the 200cc 4 stroke.
wanna buy one?
i may be selling it...
(sob)

oh ok. I had one for a short period. Except it was a '70s model 90cc. Funny little bike. Do they still have a similar design, with the fat tyres.

[tl_tub]

Im not sure about mementos, but ive got the head and camshafts from the katana on the dinner table.. Engine side cover on the breakfast bar with steel wool fibres everwhere too! :yes:

[gamgee]

the only thing i've had to change on my bike is the oil filter and i doubt leaving that sitting on the desk would go down to well ;-)

[Oscar]

I uster have a piston from Norick Abe's 1996 YZR500...can't find the feckin' thing since shifting and it's pissing me off...

[vifferman]

Nothing motorcycley on my desk at the moment (usually have helmet, gloves, key, etc.) as I'm being taxi-driver this week.

I did have a broken VTR1000 throttle position sensor pinned to the cubicle wall, as a reminder to be careful, and a picture of the Britten, because it was cool and to remind me about the importance of innovation and application. They sort of went with the pictures of our dead dog, who was killed because I was impatient. I also used to have a bazillion bike pictures as wallpaper/screensaver, but I felt I was becoming just too obsessive and one-dimensional. Now I have pictures from various holidays instead.

In my gargre, there are all sorts of bike parts, as I don't chuck stuff away in case it could be useful, unless it's REALLY knackered. It's not so much a money-saving thing, just a DIY / Heath Robinson / magpie problem.

In the turlet at home, there's a 2005 "Bikes'n'Babes" calendar, courtesy of the vifferbabe. Not really my thing, but Miss July (Mackenzie) is very easy on the eyes, as was (lemme think...) Miss February? However, the R1-YZF isn't as kewl as the Benelli TNT or the MV Brutale.

[Madmax]

I have a broken valve on my desk (BSA B31)
to remind me what valve bounce is
:devil2: