[CR]Re: merckx and peugeot

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From: <Cino1947@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:19:51 EST
To: chasds@mindspring.com
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: merckx and peugeot

I have a large magazine photo of Eddy in 1967 on a Peugeot. The lugs are all Nervex, including the fork crown. How can you tell it's really a Masi? Vintage Velos has a shot of Eddy's bike that was built by DeRosa, but the fork crown has DeRosa heart cutouts. Josh Berger New York City In a message dated 1/15/03 3:39:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, chasds@mindspring.com writes:


> I could be wrong about this, but I thought that all the
> Peugeot-badged frames Merckx rode were actually Masis, or
> Pogliaghis, or De Rosas (mostly likely, they were all
> Masis...cf the Nervex-lugged Special, which, when painted up
> like a PX-10, looks just like one from a distance...close
> up, the differences are obvious, however..)..
>
> I thought that Merckx did not ever compete on an actual
> PX-10.. listers, what's the story? (I think we dealt with
> this at least once before, but I forget the facts now).

>

> Charles