RE: [CR]Eddy Merckx by Miyata?

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From: "Dennis Ryan" <angroch@insightbb.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]Eddy Merckx by Miyata?
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:16:55 -0500
In-Reply-To: <ea.61604ffb.2f233627@aol.com>


What's up with the "MX-SRa," for "cycle ball?" It looks like the love child of a Flying Gate and a Sting Ray. Those bars look a bit dangerous, too ... not something to take into a scrum!

Dennis Ryan Louisville, KY

-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org]On Behalf Of OROBOYZ@aol.com Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:53 PM To: cnighbor@pacbell.net; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Eddy Merckx by Miyata?

I had heard that before Eddy opened his own factory, there was a Japanese licensee of the Merckx name in the 1970s concurrent to the Falcon license in the UK and USA... Is this it?

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~uc6y-ssk/special_08.html

Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC