Re: [CR]Eddy Merckx by Miyata?

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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:29:46 -0800
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "joel metz (ifbma/sfbma)" <magpie@blackbirdsf.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Eddy Merckx by Miyata?


well, not exactly bike polo... cycle ball. its a bit different.

unlike bike polo, cycle ball is a uci world championship event - along with artistic cycling, it makes up the split discipline of "indoor cycling".

http://uci.ch/modello2.asp?1stLevelID=C&level1=7&level2=1&idnews=1547

its basically a lot like soccer, but played by two-man teams on bikes. you can only move the ball with your bike, and a lot of time is spent wheelie-ing.

polo bikes are fairly similarly constructed, but there are a few differences... both sports (and artistic cycling) date back to the turn of last century...

-joel


>This shows a Merckx model for bike polo!!?? Wow, would I like to
>have one of those!
>
>
>Dave Patrick
>Chelsea, Michigan
>
>
>OROBOYZ@aol.com wrote:
>I had heard that before Eddy opened his own factory, there was a Japanese
>licensee of the Merckx name in the 1970s concurrent to the Falcon
>license in the
>UK and USA... Is this it?
>
>http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~uc6y-ssk/special_08.html
>
>Dale Brown
>Greensboro, NC
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