[CR]Re: Mercx Hour Record Bike

Bob and others,

I certainly would like to find out - Il Vecchio was under the impression it was THE original. So what is the story behind the importer and the replicas?

Thanks, -- Jan Heine, Seattle Editor/Publisher Vintage Bicycle Quarterly http://www.mindspring.com/~heine/bikesite/bikesite/

Jan Writes:
>That bike was displayed on loan at Il Vecchio's in Seattle for a year or two. Unfortunately before I moved here. Must have been the early 1990s. But luckily, good photos were taken, so it'll be in VBQ some day.<

Didn't the company loaning this bike (Gita I think) later admit it to be one of several replicas?

Bob Hovey
Columbus, GA