White bike with CdM strips on the seattube - at least it matches Eddy's jersey.
Magnificent photos, Brett. Makes "Pic of the Day" look like 3rd grade crayola drawings!
Aldo Ross
Blue Ball, Ohio
> Great, Brett, thanks. As always, a bit of data works wonders. From
> Brett's pics it appears clear that Eddy is on a spare bike, presumably
> from his team car. I missed a key point in the original pic that Brett
> saw, that the white bike lacked a frame number, indicating this isn't the
> bike with which Eddy started the race. We're still not 100% sure why it's
> painted white, but we can probably adopt Bob Hovey's theory that Masi ran
> short of time and therefore this bike, a spare, didn't get the full
> finish. And thanks also to Chuck Schmidt, who pointed out that that
> sidepulls seen on other Eddy shots during the year were Universals, as
> Campy didn't introduce their brakes until the fall of '68.
>
> One other bit of new data for me is from Brett's first picture. In '68
> the team bikes were decaled as "Faema" machines. Apparently Eddy still
> wasn't a big enough star to have the bikes branded "Eddy Merckx"
>
> Thanks again, Brett, for this bit of illumination. Every picture tells a
> story---
>
> Tom Adams, curiosity satisfied in Shrewsbury NJ
>
> Brett Horton <bretthorton@thehortoncollection.com> wrote:
> I took a quick look at the photos in my collection from the 1968 Tour of
> Flanders. I have put four of them up on my web site that I feel are
> relevant to this thread. From flicking through about 175 sequential photos
> from this race, it looks to me like the "white" bicycle was a spare. Under
> each photo, I have given my opinion as to what I think is going on in the
> image. My opinions are based on nothing more than my review of the photos
> mixed with a little logic. Your opinion may vary.
>
> http://www.thehortoncollection.com/
>
> Please feel free to respond on or off-list if you think I misinterpreted
> any of the photos.
>
> Brett Horton
> San Francisco, CA
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