>Quoting John Hurley <JHurley@jdabrams.com>:
>
>> Jan wrote about the Merckx "quizzler" bike photo:
>>
>> "...raising the saddle exposed some truly ugly scratch marks." (on the
>> seat post).
> >
> >> Where or by whom were the Eddy Merckx frames built?
The bike in question was made by Ugo De Rosa.
I have seen enough bikes with slowly slipping seats to be wary of seatposts that go in too easily.
It's almost impossible not to mark the seatpost when you insert it. The scratches weren't deep gouges, but Jean-Pierre Praderes' photographs show even the smallest details... so they would have been visible.
Jan Heine
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