Subject: [CR]Re: Fiat Racing Team and Merckx Question(s)?
It is a interesting phenomenon, one manufacturer helping to set up another in business, given the possible competition repercussions. Friends helping each other out, or maybe the payback after a long and successful association?
Dennis Young
Hotaka, Japan
> DeRosa built them as a subcontracter, while Eddy was setting up his factory
> (under Ugo DeRosa's guidance).
>> When DeRosa was fabricating Merckx frames after the Belgian's racing career
>> ended, what was the connection to Eddy? Was it a honorary thing to Merckx,
>> or did Eddy have some input into the geometries possibly, or perhaps mainly
>> a marketing strategy to put the great rider's name on frames directed to the
>> general public? Weren't the frames very similar to the DeRosa ones.