Early Merckx frames were made by Ugo DeRosa, who helped Eddy M. set- up his factory.
Unless you're talking about the early early Falcon/Merckx frames.
At Tuesday, 4 March 2003, Bikerdaver@aol.com wrote:
>Folk's
>Allow me to muddy the waters of "swedish masi", in the guise of
a question.
>If I recall correctly, weren't the earlier eddy merckx frames made
by masi?
>(Maybe my memory isn't as good as i once thought it to be.) I mention
this
>because I believe that in the 80s and sometime later than that,
the top of
>the line Cresent/Monark were just were re-badged eddy merckx frames.
In fact
>as late as the mid-90s the Swedish national womens team road re-
badged eddy
>merckx. Johan help me out here. Cheers,
>Dave Anderson
>Cut Bank MT
>
>In a message dated 3/3/03 11:13:53 AM PST, richardsachs@juno.com
writes:
> agreed. when i wasn't the age i am now, i remember staring
>at race pics of the petterssons and noticed the decal,
>"Brevetatta" or similar on their blue frame's chainstays,
>a mark seen on the early 'non-fluted' chainstays of
>the masi frames of the era. btw, didn't the 4 brothers
>medal at mexico in the 4-man 100k time trial?
>e-RICHIE
>chester, ct
>
>On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 19:40:57 +0100 "Johan Ericson"
><johan.ericson@logicoffice.se> writes:
>> Hello List
>> While looking thru my pile of old french bike magazines I discovered
>> that Gosta "Faglum" Pettersson, riding for Feretti, used a Masi
when he
>> won the 1971 Giro di Italia. Labeled as a swedish Monark. It has the
>> same BB cut out as the right BB at
>> http://www.richardsachs.com/
>> http://www.richardsachs.com/
>>
>> When talking to him he just says he sold it to someone here in Sweden
>> circa 1978-9. .............. Somewhere out there in some ones garage
>> sits a Giro winning Masi! The search is on, very on.
>> My size and would go perfect with my old Feretti-cap.
>> Regards
>> Johan Ericson
>> Stockholm, Sweden
>>
>
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