In a message dated 10/17/2003 2:37:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, chuckschmidt@earthlink.net writes:
<< The impressive thing with this frame at the time was that a set of lugs was made up to go with the Columbus MAX Nivacrom tubeset (ends squashed on mutually perpedicular axes), instead of just tig welding the tubes together. >>
Even more on that...Columbus made a set of lugs specifically for the Max set.
I have used them in a frame. (bad pictures here:
http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/
but Eddy apparently didn't like them. He made his own and flipped the top tube end for end, so Merckx Max frames are different from others...
Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC