Re: [CR]Re: merckx and peugeot

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To: Cino1947@aol.com
From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: merckx and peugeot
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:42:58 -0500
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

It has been rehashed many, many times ... but:

http://www.albertomasi.it/Inglese/Storia.html http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/Masimain.html

And according to a Cicli Masi catalogue at

http://www.bulgier.net/pics/bike/Catalogs/masi-misc/ciclimasi3.jpg

Tom Simpson's Peugeot was a Masi as well.

At Thursday, 16 January 2003, Cino1947@aol.com wrote:
>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
>>
>>
>
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