Re: [CR]Did Eddy Merckx Ride for 7-11 Team?

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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 17:59:00 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Did Eddy Merckx Ride for 7-11 Team?
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Angel M Garcia wrote:
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> Did Eddy Merckx ride for the 7-11 team? I have not read about any
> involvement with 7-11 or did I miss it.....????
> http://ebay.com/<blah>

Well, the auction reads:

"You are bidding on a vintage but as new, never used, still in original package, Team 7 Eleven cycling road bike gloves. The team Eddie Merckx was on."

Merckx was a sponsor and supplied the bikes for the 7 ELEVEN team and also when they morphed into Motorola he supplied bikes to that team too (plus the Caloi "made by Merckx" bikes). I have a John Tomac 7 ELEVEN Merckx and a Andy Hampsten Motorola Merckx which are wonderful riding bikes.

Johnny T bio: http://www.tomac.com/english/html/info/john_bio.html Andy Hampsten bio: http://www.cycling4fans.com/e/informations/remember/e1c_start.htm

I guess Eddy's sponsorship could be construed as being part of the 7 ELEVEN team in a corporate sense, right? As in being "part of the team".

Of course I think the person with the auction thought Eddy was riding even though he didn't state that.

Chuck "Not good at legalese" Schmidt SoPas, SoCal

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