Thursday Video: Robin Williams' Bicycle Collection

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Robin Williams had an addiction to cocaine early in his career. After John Belushi's death from an overdose, he quit drugs and alcohol and began cycling. He once told a bike shop owner that cycling saved his life. Over his lifetime, he acquired quite a few bikes. 1n 2016, his heirs sold 87 of them at auction, and donated the proceeds to charity.

The video below shows some of his bikes, but for a complete listing you need to visit the Paddle 8 website. There you will see that he had some really nice bicycles of all makes and types. He also has some collectible bikes, like a Pea Picker Krate Stingray. There were also a few oddities in the collection, including a clown bike, a Schwinn unicycle and an electric scooter.

The auction was a big success, raising over $600,000. That was triple what experts expected from the auction. The money raised was donated to the Challenged Athlete Foundation and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation charities.