Re: [CR]Re: Most Collectable bike

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Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Most Collectable bike
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From: "Morgan Fletcher" <morgan@hahaha.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:54:22 -0800
In-Reply-To: <187.22621015.2cf63bf3@aol.com> (BobHoveyGa@aol.com's message of "Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:25:07 EST")


BobHoveyGa@aol.com writes:
> Gotta have Eddy's Hour Bike.

I went to the Bob Roll / Graham Watson talk the night before Velo Swap, with my wife Lauren. (That was fun!*) At the registration table I recognized Bruce Hildenbrand, who writes for Cycle Sport and other publications. We were given "HELLO" name tags to fill out, so I signed myself Eddy Merckx. Bruce liked my name tag and went on to tell me a story. He was at Eddy's factory in Belgium with Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen. Paul whispered to him to "Come here!" and motioned him over to a small storage room in the factory. Paul opened the door and there was the hour record bike just leaning against some shelving.

Cool story.

Morgan "Merckx fan" Fletcher Oakland, CA

* http://www.birfield.com/~morgan/images/bikes/tn/img_5721.jpg.html