Well, I think for both Eddy and DeRosa this was a business. DeRosa worked all night to deliver a new machine for the next days race, per Eddy's specs. He could build a complete, presentable frame in four hours, deliver it to the painter for a quick coat of paint and be ready at the starting line for the next days stage. None of the other 23 frames he built for Merckx was good enough.
Brian Van Baush
Evergreen, CO
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos"
> <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Brian Van Baush" <bvanbaush@ameritech.net>;
> <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
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