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So this story starts back in 1988 or so back in Ibaragi, Japan at a bike component plant run by Sakae Ringyo Co. Ltd. known by many of us as SR. This plant was producing one of the hottest mountain bike pedals at the time the MTP-126 Low Fat mountain bike pedal which was OEM spec on most all mountain bikes with Deore and Deore XT components back then and even some with Suntour. So this pair of pedals rolls off the plant in OEM bulk packaging and is packed as one of 50 pair in a master carton and put on a boat likely headed for Taiwan where it lands and is taken to Dodsun Bicycle and Machinery to be packed in a bike carton of a Fisher Mountain Bike, Then loaded on a container headed for Tacoma USA where it is unloaded and warehoused and later shipped to a bike dealer perhaps in NY. The bike dealer assembles the bike and a few weeks later sells the bike to a customer who decides he's going to run different pedals on his new ride. That new bike owner pigeon holes the pedals in a box. Move forward 22-23 years and that bike owner finds the pedals and lists them on eBay.com. A Netherlands/Dutch vintage mountain bike enthusiast sees these pedals as one of the crown jewel parts of the bike he is currently building and must have them but....the eBay seller is only offering them, say it with me "With shipping in the US ONLY". So this UK retrobiker hits the web tying to find someone to help him realize the dream of having these Low Fats on his current build. That's where I came in and I think we both watched the pedals right to the end of the auction and finally this UK retrobikers dream has been realized. Now the pedals are shipped from the eBay seller to me the middle man in Wisconsin who immediately turns them around with an address headed for the Netherlands to be assembled on a Mt. Tam that is painstakingly being assembled by stumpjumper1990.
Great story and one similar to many of the parts each and everyone of us utilize in piecing together many of the bikes you see posted on this site and other sites. The interesting thing about these pedals is they are 22-23 years old and have been shipped nearly 15,000 miles in all their travels since produced and are still NOS and never been pedaled even one mile in all that time... but have traveled enough miles in a box to circumnavigate the planet. Vintage bike building ain't it great? Can't wait to see the completed bike.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 241wt_1139
Great story and one similar to many of the parts each and everyone of us utilize in piecing together many of the bikes you see posted on this site and other sites. The interesting thing about these pedals is they are 22-23 years old and have been shipped nearly 15,000 miles in all their travels since produced and are still NOS and never been pedaled even one mile in all that time... but have traveled enough miles in a box to circumnavigate the planet. Vintage bike building ain't it great? Can't wait to see the completed bike.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 241wt_1139
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