[CR] Merckx Bike quizzler - End Story

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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:49:51 -0400
From: "pstock" <pjstock@gmail.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] Merckx Bike quizzler - End Story


Alright, enough already. let's wrap this up.

After a few hints from another NCCC member ("the clue is in one of Merckx's unique fetishes... also something to do with his body size. think about eddy with his tape measure... ") the answer was clear.

And in fact was the first answer that came in, from Paul Arbez in Vancouver. Second place to Derek Willburn in California. (No prize I am afraid Paul. Just Congratulations.)

This from Mike Barry:

"Hi Peter, Yes the answer is 'saddle too low'. I had an e-mail discussion with author Jan Hiene about it and he said that that was how he received the bike for photographing and if he had corrected the saddle position scratches on the post would show. To me that saddle position really spoils the whole cover photo. (That is the photo on the front of the book.) I wrote about the book and the cover photo in my blog last Feb 1. You can read it if you wish at http://www.bicyclespecialties.blogspot.com and going to the Feb09 posts.

Here is the URL to Mike's February posts, which includes a writeup of the restoration of Mike's own 1951 Cinelli.

http://bicyclespecialties.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html

His most recent blog post is of his visits to Italian cycling museums.

Thanks for all the suggestions and guesses. I've asked Mike to dream up another trivia question.

Peter
Toronto, Canada