In a message dated 7/5/2005 4:08:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Carb7008@cs.com writes:
<< I'm a little suspicious anyway ever since I bought a "vintage" Eddy Merckx in the Bay Area for 80 bucks a couple of years ago when I was still green. After getting it home, I could find no provinance, frame weighed and "rang" like a lead pipe. I later learned that these counterfeits were/are common in Italy for the unsuspecting. Nice-lookin' frame though. >>
More likely it was a Falcon made, legitimately licensed bike. In addition to full-on pro models, they also made a full range including cheap models, all the way down to $150 bicycles, and Falcon was famous for placing Reynolds 531 stickers on frames not necessarily having all that......
Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC USA