Originally Posted by
T-Mar
That's a beautiful bicycle. .................
Shimano, established a presence in Europe as soon as they had developed their professional level Dura-Ace components by opening the European headquarters in the Nethrelands in June 1972 and supplying the Belgian based Flandria team in 1973. Thank-you for posting.
yes, exactly . I know the Flandria story with Freddy Maertens and the cooperation with Shimano in the early 1970s professional team.
I have one of those 1973-74 Flandria bikes named-labeled as Freddy Maertens.
I bought it in Belgium a few years ago as "scrap" and gradually rebuilt it with some old Japanese parts. It,s a nice Bike with Ishiwata Tubes.