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12-20-21, 09:45 AM

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Let's see your Eddy Merckx!

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Posted By spike666c

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1972 or 73 Kessels "Eddy Merckx", purchased directly from Eddy's builder in...

Forum: Classic & Vintage

08-28-20, 07:23 AM

Replies: 913

Let's see your Eddy Merckx!

Views: 309,652

Posted By spike666c

The graphics and frame details are not correct...

The graphics and frame details are not correct for a Kessels Eddy Merckx, this is one of Eddy's post 1978 frames, possibly a very early De Rosa built frame.

Forum: Classic & Vintage

08-25-20, 08:50 AM

Replies: 913

Let's see your Eddy Merckx!

Views: 309,652

Posted By spike666c

We know for a fact that Eddy rode Colnago, De...

We know for a fact that Eddy rode Colnago, De Rosa and Kessels in competition after 1970. There's a question about the 1969 TDF bike, it might have been Kessels.
However, I don't think Eddy used...

Forum: Classic & Vintage

08-25-20, 08:43 AM

Replies: 913

Let's see your Eddy Merckx!

Views: 309,652

Posted By spike666c

[QUOTE=reverborama;11441565]Did Merckx design or...

[QUOTE=reverborama;11441565]Did Merckx design or build the De Rosas he rode to victory in Le Tour? I'd value one of those more than any bike I will ever own. He did sign his name to a contract that...

Forum: Classic & Vintage

08-25-20, 06:03 AM

Replies: 913

Let's see your Eddy Merckx!

Views: 309,652

Posted By spike666c

1972 or 73 "Kessels" Eddy Merckx

My Eddy Merckx, purchased new from Eddy's Belgian builder, Kessels, in June of 1973. I now believe it was a left-over 1972 model.

Eddy is on the record as saying that Kessels supplied him with...

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