X degrees of separation

[mickle]

See this:

I took the rings off to clean them yesterday and remembered where they came from. True story! Circa 1994 I worked for a company called Neatwork who, amongst other things imported Peer Gynt recumbents. There was a bike department in Harrods and Neatwork had been asked to build and supply the very poshest Peer Gynt that was to be a gift for a certain Mr M Al Fayed. He was presented with it, but he never actually took possession of it, never rode it and it sat on the shop floor for a couple of years. And then they send it back. Neatwork took all the fancy gear off it and returned it to standard spec. And these went into a box on a shelf in the warehouse until one day I was nosing around and went ooh, how much do you want for these here titanium nitride coated titanium chainrings? The granny was Suntour microdrive, so incompatible with 99% of compact chainsets.
So i got them for a song. They found their way onto my Vertex in 2003 and still going strong!

Which famous dead person are you connected to through the acquisition of obscure second hand bicycle parts?

 

[mickle]

Goldtec BTW

 

[Drago]

At one time a lot of folk would boast about owning an ex Jimmy Savile Carlton.

 

[a.twiddler]

Which is more remarkable though? That they came off a Peer Gynt, rare as hen's teeth, or that they once belonged to someone once famous, now dead and discredited, who had more money and possessions than he knew what to do with?