7-Eleven Corsa Extra: Best looking 1980s bike?
 

Was the 1989 7-Eleven team bike built by Eddy Merckx the best looking, most iconic 1980s road racing bike ever?

SLX/SPX tubing. Red and green metallic paint, white lettering, chrome forks and stays. Full Dura Ace 7400 8-speed drivetrain with grey aero brake levers and downtube shifters. Internal rear brake cable.

Discuss.

Probably.

Yes. Yes, it was.

What is there to discuss?

for anyone who clicked on this thread and is wondering what the bikes look like....

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Steve in Peoria
(did anyone buy the stuff in that Giordana ad?? And would you admit it??)

Very, very possible, Eddy knew and still knows exactly what he's doing with, on and about the bike. ;)

I would rock those jerseys, for sure!

I’m voting for the Huffy Aerowind.

It's possible.

Thanks to Steve in Peoria for posting the article that inspired this post. Man, that's a fine looking bike!

I did note--and this is of course nitpicking--that the bike Eddie is shown with is a different bike than in the rest of the pictorial. Besides no water bottle cages, the paint job is ever so slightly different, and the bikes have different stems.

What, the water bottle cages are not oversized to hold a Big Gulp?

I think they're medium Slurpy-sized.

It's too Christmas flavoured for my taste. Awaiting rebuttals from Bianchigirll, Centurion Ironmen owners, etc.

My vote is for Giuseppe Saronni's red Colnago.

My heart is with the 80's DeRosa but that 7-11 Merckx is a beauty

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this is where I post a pic of mine!

The white saddle > the original black.

or possibly the ESA N.Mx version

Yes, there are a number of differences, because, it's my bike! The main one I think is I run a sugino compact crank vs dura ace. I also run clinchers. Pearl stem. Nitto bars. 7403 hyperglide hubs. That's about it I think!

I was debating that issue last night when I was writing this, because usually those colors take me right to Christmas too. But studying the bike, the green just doesn't seem "Christmassy" to me, so I can't quite get there.

It was fun reading more about the 7-Eleven team back in the day. Sounds like they were "Rock 'n' Roll" in a world of classical violin.

Yes. /thread

Speak of the devil: https://www.ebay.com/itm/22501577402...YAAOSwyCNimmi~

The ones in the article have a number hanger. A lot of the ones I've seen pictures of do not. Was that a team vs. repro difference, or just a model year thing?

My grail frame. Have the jersey....probably as close as I'm going to get. I look EVERY DAY.

Dean