Sir Jimmy Savile's bicycle collection up for auction in Leeds later this month

I bet these bikes no longer seem like such a bargain to whoever bought them. Monster.

Jimmy Saville was also responsible for one of the most bizarre photographs in existence.

It is a photo of Jimmy Saville smoking a cigar in front of a 'No-Smoking' sign whilst Frank Bruno shakes hands with what looks like a poor mans Macho Man Randy Savage but is in fact the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00740/SNN2501Asutcliffe_74091...

Nuts.

The Oscar Egg? Lot 41.....

We resprayed and rebuilt that for Sir Jim when I worked at Bob Jackson Cycles.

He also invented time travel 'Now then now then now then' very quickly with the yodelling noise announcing his reappearance in the present.

Is there a Jim'll Fixie?

That titanium framed Raleigh is on for a song. It has to be said that the inability of the auction company to spell so many names correctly (Charlton, Dalian), get basic wheel sizes wrong and put such low starting prices on what are clearly decent bikes with provenance does rather bring into question the level of professionalism involved.

As for things being undervalued, I'm not sure how much value Sir Jimmy's name adds to a POS Falcon MTB that would otherwise be worth about £30, but I can't imagine 10x.

Okay. Those auction house idiots get a failing grade for even being able to read the words printed on the bikes, parts, or tape measures, with which they apparently measured the wheels.

Some lovely bikes there. Wish I had some spare cash. The prices should go much higher. I imagine Sir Paul Smith eyeing a couple. The purple Ti bike would look good in his Floral St office.

The auctions listing look like really bad ebay ones, most way under valued, esp the Dahian(sp).

Dahon's should go close to retail, yet the MTB isn't much more than a BSO, yet still valued the same as the road bikes.

Still can't get my head around Jimmy Savile being a pro cyclist.

These bikes seem pretty cheap, no?

To my relatively untrained eye I would say they are worth far more than the 200-300 guide price.

What caught my eye was the 12-volume first edition of Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time"...estimated sale price nearly as much the entire collection of bikes! But it is not from Sir Jimmy's estate.

Cheaper by far, surely, to read it on a Kindle.

Whoever wrote those Lot descriptions wants shooting:
Gant = Giant,Delotion = Peloton, Campagnola = Campagnolo, Vettageland = Vetta gel, Charlton = Carlton, and apparently they all have 26" wheels.

Some nice jerseys in there too.