Sir Jimmy Savile's bike collection goes to auction

[LosingFocus]

http://road.cc/content/news/60953-sir-jimmy-saviles-bicycle-collection-auction-leeds-later-month

http://www.dnfa.com/search.asp?view=keyword&keyword=cycle&noperpage=20&orderby=relevance&cat=future

 

[DCLane]

Those guide prices are low, given the provenance. A slight pity for me they're all 56cm frames, but ...

I like this one: http://www.dnfa.com/search.asp?view=lotno&auction=13560&lotno=24&uniqueid=445466-314

/goes and rattles piggy bank

 

[Fab Foodie]

I reckon a few of those bikes will go for a bit more than the guide price ....
Should have got a cycle-literate expert to write the descriptions.

 

[Chris S]

I take it the 'Viking' logo on his T-shirt has nothing to do with the modern BSOs of the same name?

 

[Smokin Joe]

I take it the 'Viking' logo on his T-shirt has nothing to do with the modern BSOs of the same name?

Viking used to be a well respected frame builder, as you say nothing to do with the gas pipe specials that bear the name today.

26" wheels and a Charlton? dear oh dear.

 

[Kiwiavenger]

Those guide prices are low, given the provenance. A slight pity for me they're all 56cm frames, but ...

I like this one: http://www.dnfa.com/search.asp?view=lotno&auction=13560&lotno=24&uniqueid=445466-314

/goes and rattles piggy bank

i like it lots too! damned skintness!!!

 

[ColinJ]

How about his 'Dalian' (Dahon) folder for £40-60 (ish)?

 

[ColinJ]

Nice coincidence that the auction is being held in Saviles Hall!

 

[ColinJ]

I was wondering about that. I'm sure I've seen "Dalian" bikes - really cheapo looking ones - in the hypermarket we go to in France, not folders, just the usual crappy MTB things, and I googled it and they seems to be a Chinese company of that name that makes bikes.

[edit] on closer inspection, there doesn't seem to be a company of that name that makes bikes!

I zoomed in on the photograph of the bike to make sure!

There are lots of typos in those auction listings, some of them bizarre, like Dalian/Dahon. I wonder whether the person who wrote them was dictating into something like Dragon Naturally Speaking and didn't bother correcting the mistakes in the text it produced?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I have hundreds of 'Jim fixed it for me' medals in my loft. True story.

 

[xpc316e]

How about his 'Dalian' (Dahon) folder for £40-60 (ish)?

It's yours if you want it - it has 19" wheels apparently, so tyres might be a slight problem.

 

[subaqua]

I have hundreds of 'Jim fixed it for me' medals in my loft. True story.

you can't leave that story there

 

[ColinJ]

I have hundreds of 'Jim fixed it for me' medals in my loft. True story.

Let me guess ... When you were young, you always dreamed of having boxes full of 'Jim fixed it for me' medals in your loft!

 

[edindave]

I was looking out for the tartan shell suit but it's not in the auction.

Plenty of jewellery though. Rattle rattle rattle.

 

[tyred]

I love Vikings