A few years ago I remember talking to a chap from the Netherlands, who was working in a bike store in my home town (Kingston, Ontario), who remembers stripping NR and SR parts off bikes while he was a mechanic in Holland and simply throwing them into large bins in the back of the shop. This used to happen at the end of every race season as riders would upgrade to the new year's parts. He remembers that in most cases there was nothing wrong with them. Made me weep when he told me that - oh that I had a time machine!!!
Paul Williams,
Ottawa, ON, Canada