Re: [CR]Re: Classicrendezvous digest, Vol 1 #1877 - 25 msgs

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Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Classicrendezvous digest, Vol 1 #1877 - 25 msgs
From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <BA00C697.102D%mail@woodworkingboy.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:12:28 -0700

on 11/20/2002 05:56 AM, Dennis Young at mail@woodworkingboy.com wrote:
>
>> Subject: [CR]Re: Fiat Racing Team and Merckx Question(s)?
>
> When DeRosa was fabricating Merckx frames after the Belgian's racing career
> ended, what was the connection to Eddy? Was it a honorary thing to Merckx,
> or did Eddy have some input into the geometries possibly, or perhaps mainly
> a marketing strategy to put the great rider's name on frames directed to the
> general public? Weren't the frames very similar to the DeRosa ones.

DeRosa built them as a subcontracter, while Eddy was setting up his factory (under Ugo DeRosa's guidance).

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