Yep! It's the bike to have! I was there several times and several of Eddys old machines are hanging in the warehouse, all are depleted and stripped.....The warriors grave yard! I have some photos and It's kind of sad knowing where they might have been what they may have gone through, maybe some big tour wins! But now they are just hanging and rusting away. One day old man Bob one of eddys old teamates was helping me when I was buying up the old stocks! Anyway he pulled out 3 large wooden cases and said here take these, they are for free! What's this?.................Oh! These are Eddys old freewheel race boxes from the old days! He's not using this anymore so just take it!.................There was a few boxes of old bike parts as well and Henry said this is from those old bikes of Eddys, you should take those a well!..............I said!.....OH NO!..............THOSE BELONG TO THOSE BIKES! SO THEY WILL BE STAYING!...........When the bikes ends up in their graves the parts should go along with them as well. To them it's just a bunch of old bike parts to me it's a lot more than that.
Just my take on a visit at EDDYs factory.
BC
Baron C....................And the gang!!
Renaissance cycles,
Eindhoven Holland
> 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/