You have to remember that when you ride as fast as Eddy, the paint blew off
the bike.
After he finished the paint caught up and then sat overnight and dried.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Eddy at Speed....Bike Fit
> Can DeRosa's account really be true? Even assuming one could build a bike
> to a rider's specification in one night, one then has to paint it in the
> team colors. That couldn't leave more than a couple of hours for the
> paint to dry. I've never painted bikes, but I'd think it would take at
> least a day for a paint job to dry properly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, TX
>
>
>
> Brian Van Baush <bvanbaush@ameritech.net> wrote:
>
> I read in an interview with Ugo DeRosa, in which he
> states he would build several bikes for Eddy during
> the Giro. Even as Eddy wins one stage he's asking
> DeRosa (politely) to make a change and build him
> another frame for the next day. DeRosa works all
> night and meets him at the start with the new bike
> ready to go.
>
> Brian Van Baush
> Evergreen, CO