Re: [CR]1st eddy merckx

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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 13:56:54 +0000
Subject: Re: [CR]1st eddy merckx
From: "Hilary Stone" <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Bingham, Wayne R." <WBINGHAM@imf.org>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <C868CB2D287CD04AACA367D51848C2140866EB@mlsswn02p.WAS.INT.IMF.ORG>


Real Eddy Merckx frames I think were first built from about 1978 (as opposed to the Falcon and Kessels). De Rosa was apparently a personal friend of Eddy and helped set up the factory. It seems possible that he might have also supplied some of the early frames. The early Merckxs are very De Rosa in appearance.

Regards

Hilary Stone, in warm again (16°C) Bristol

Wayne Bingham wrote:
> Merckx produced a 10th Anniversary frame in 1990 and a 20th Anniversary
> frame in 2000. It was my understanding that those frames commemorated 10
> and 20 years respectively, of Merckx building his own frames. I believe
> that frames sold with the Merckx name before 1980 were built by others.
>
   Paul Patzkowsk wrote:
>> I would guess that the first Eddy Merckx frames came out in '74 or close
> to
>> that. Chris VanGent (sp) of Big Wheel in Denver donated one to the Denver
>> Wheelmen when they sponsored one of the first two Miller Classics in
> Denver.
>> The frame was first prize.
>>
>>y, a former Denver Wheelman
>
>
> Would that be the frames from Eddy Merckx's own factory or the frames
> built under licensing by others?
>
> Chuck Schmidt, a former Pasadena Athletic Associationist