Interestingly, it was a Stronglight crankset that got me into vintage bicycles!

I had raced what were vintage motorcycles, so perhaps already had such tendencies, but switched back to bicycle riding upon my return to California.

One day after coming out of The Off Ramp bike shop in Mountain View (silicon valley), I somehow spotted a crusty old road bike protruding from their large dumpster, and upon closer inspection spotted a Stronglight 93 crankset that I knew was a race-quality and to me a particularly attractive item. So I rolled the 1970 Peugeot home on bare rims alongside the bike I was riding, and thus a vintage-bicycle enthusiast was born!

Soon after, I moved to the inland foothills and began refurbishing the many under-geared vintage bikes that aging owners were turning into the local thrift stores due to the quite-hilly terrain. A lot of Stronglight cranks passed through my hands and I eventually acquired the correct vintage puller for them, though for everyday use I still mount these cranks on JIS or ISO cartridge bottom brackets nearly as often as not.

Oh, and here's that Peugeot I rescued from the bike shop trash bin, made it "fit" and put many hard, fast-as-I-can-ride miles on.
The UO8 behind it was only my second ($20) Salvation Army purchase, after finding a Viscount for $18.75, and I think that I took this picture the day that I bought my first (Fuji) Digital camera in 2001 or so.