Re: [CR]1st eddy merckx

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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:45:35 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]1st eddy merckx
References: <15f.368503f.291897f8@cs.com>


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