The jersey seems to me to have rainbow rings on the collar but plain cuffs. I have a photo of Merckx wearing just such a jersey in 1971. Who can say if is genuine. It seems plausable that Vin would ask Eddy for a jersey and he would pull a Molteni jersey out of his bag. After all a man who had thirty five bikes would be unlikely to go to a race with less than half a dozen jerseys. What the Special One was doing in a bar before the Ronde is another matter. Maybe it explains his 76th place that day. Incidentally I bought a jersey of Vin Denson 45 years ago. In the days when you couldn't buy pro team jerseys in the UK shops the pros would sell them to fans at the Isle of Man. I seem to recall that thirty shillings changed hands which wasn't cheap for an un-washed jersey. Ray Green, Brighton, England
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