RE: [CR]1st eddy merckx

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From: "Bingham, Wayne R." <WBINGHAM@imf.org>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]1st eddy merckx
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:10:13 -0500


Merckx produced a 10th Anniversary frame in 1990 and a 20th Anniversary frame in 2000. It was my understanding that those frames commemorated 10 and 20 years respectively, of Merckx building his own frames. I believe that frames sold with the Merckx name before 1980 were built by others.

Wayne Bingham Falls Church VA

WTrikerider@cs.com wrote:
>
> I would guess that the first Eddy Merckx frames came out in '74 or close to
> that. Chris VanGent (sp) of Big Wheel in Denver donated one to the Denver
> Wheelmen when they sponsored one of the first two Miller Classics in Denver.
> The frame was first prize.
>
> Paul Patzkowsky, a former Denver Wheelman

Would that be the frames from Eddy Merckx's own factory or the frames built under licensing by others?

Chuck Schmidt, a former Pasadena Athletic Associationist