On Oct 29, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Jan Heine wrote:
> The bike was ridden by Merckx at the 1974 World's in Montreal. In the
> book, you see a historic photo during the Worlds, and you see that
> Merckx had the brake cables running "left-front" and that his fork was
> painted. The bike has the pink and yellow bands that indicate that
> Merckx won the Giro and the Tour de France that year... The bar tape
> was white, though. And the saddle indeed was higher.
Man, the pain killers have taken over. Right now I'm staring at a picture I took of Eddy during the 1974 race on that bike. Never even noticed it was the same bike. Phil Brown Signing off before I hurt myself in Oakland, Calif.