Re: [CR]Merckx Bike ??? on ebay

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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:22:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "Derek Willburn" <morganx9@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Merckx Bike ??? on ebay
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <70e14d4c0612291209j4c3147a5qc4fb4f608debcda5@mail.gmail.com>


I think Bill was refering to the Windsor decals that were put on just before Eddy's hour success -but I may be wrong.

Derek Willburn
Long Beach, CA USA


--- Angel Garcia wrote:


> The hour record bikes (there have been two
> photographed and discussed) both
> say Eddy Merckx on the downtubes.
>
> One was photographed at the The 100 Anni Di Corsa
> exhibition, Italy, March
> 21-31, 2003. The other one is (or was) at a Brussels
> trainstop in a display
> case.
>
> Angel Garcia
> Verona, IT
>
>
> snip:As one that spent my teenage racing years with
> Eddy posters on my
> bedroom walls, sporting images of "The Cannibal" in
> yellow jersey atop
> orange de Rosas, Colnagos, etc. with downtubes that
> by then were always
> decaled EDDY MERCKX, and not the actual maker -
> (save for his early
> years, and the hour record bike, etc.) -- it was
> abit amusing to see an
> orange bike decaled de Rosa touted as "the same bike
> Eddy rode..."
>
>
> Bill Ungar
> Torrance, CA
> USA
>
>
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