Jerry: Why you're quoting a German eMail on CR I don't know. German was my first language and I enjoy seeing it, but I think Dale disparages this sort of thing. All this flap about the Merckx bike on eBay is silly. Simply eMailing the seller was enough to determine that he allegedly bought the bike as an early Merckx, already painted, and added the parts.It wouldn't be easy, or even possible, to determine who the maker was. It's evident it wasn't De Rosa. Merckx decal sets are available for sale throughout the world. Some are good other less so. The seller's eBay ad is very deceptive, but, like a dog biting a man, this is hardly news. All eBay sales are at the buyers" (and sellers') peril. Merckx's experience with bikes has been discussed so many times here that it seems pointless to repeat. Speedbicycles' Merckx Colnago is correct. Speedbicycles never alleges that Merckx rode this bike. Merckx didn't like anyone to "steal his shadow". The real question, never answered, is whether Merckx licensed Colnago to produce this bike. Of course he never rode. Some say this licensure issue lead to a break between the two men. As far as the Hour Record bike(s), Windsor put their label on the bikes. The bikes were Colnagos. One of these bikes is in Cambiago, the other in a Brussels Metro stop, named in Eddy's honor.
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> Vorschau: I'm pretty sure I remember seeing at least one Falcon-built
> Merckx in Molteni colors on eBay a couple of years ago. Kind of odd that
> Falcon and Kessels, and according to a post earlier today, Allegro were
> all
> licensed to sell Eddy Merckx bikes, evidently all at the same time.
> Perhaps
> Eddy only gave each manufacturer exclusive rights within the country of
> manufacture.
> And the Speedbicycles photos might suggest that perhaps DeRosa and
> Colnago
> might have been selling EM bikes as well. Of course those two might have
> been actual team frames. Neither one seems to have a brazeon for fitting a
> number plate, but in Eddy's photo book "The Fabulous World of Cycling"
> there
> are lots of shots of bikes with no number plate, and lots more of number
> plates that appear to be clamped or tied around the toptube. So evidently
> the use of a brazeon boss for the number plate was far from universal
> during
> Merckx's career. Note that Merckx's 1974 (Montreal) World Championship
> bike,
> pictured in Jan Heine's book, also lacks a number plate fitting. So at
> this
> point it isn't clear whether DeRosa and Colnago sold EM bikes or only
> supplied
> actual team frames. The Colnago on Speedbicycles is particularly
> puzzling,
> as it has Colnago as well as Merckx decals, including a "Colnago Super"
> decal
> on the chainstay. I don't believe I've ever seen a photo of Merckx, once
> he left Peugeot, riding a bike with a manufacturer's name on it, although
> he was not adverse to lug cutouts like the DeRosa heart. The only
> exception
> I have seen was that infamous Hour Record bike that the Mexican
> organizers
> insisting on slapping Windsor decals onto. [...]
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> 1.8 SARE_SPEC_REPLICA_OBFU BODY: Rolex with obfuscated replica
> 0.6 J_CHICKENPOX_17 BODY: 1alpha-pock-7alpha
> 2.8 UNWANTED_LANGUAGE_BODY BODY: Nachrichtentext in unerwünschter Sprache
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-- George
George Hollenberg MD
CT, USA