Re: [CR] Merckx photo quizzler

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From: "Phil Brown" <philcycles@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:07 -0800
To: Rendezvous Classic <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] Merckx photo quizzler


On Oct 29, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Jan Heine wrote:
> The bike was ridden by Merckx at the 1974 World's in Montreal. In the
> book, you see a historic photo during the Worlds, and you see that
> Merckx had the brake cables running "left-front" and that his fork was
> painted. The bike has the pink and yellow bands that indicate that
> Merckx won the Giro and the Tour de France that year... The bar tape
> was white, though. And the saddle indeed was higher.

Man, the pain killers have taken over. Right now I'm staring at a picture I took of Eddy during the 1974 race on that bike. Never even noticed it was the same bike. Phil Brown Signing off before I hurt myself in Oakland, Calif.