Eddy Merckx is on crack?
07-05-11, 07:58 PM
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How do you and the guy in the link really feel about this?
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07-05-11, 07:59 PM
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I was checking that out today. Not a fan, But I am curious on how much control he has over his name. Kinda like Lemond had.
07-05-11, 08:10 PM
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I think it's funny that some foul mouthed blogger knows best what Eddy Merckx should and shouldn't do. He says "He f-d up. Real bad." but he means "He didn't make a bike with me in mind!!"
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07-05-11, 09:45 PM
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A. B. There is the possibility that the Merckx UMX Mexico shown in the photos is a fake. Just why is it equipped with a spray-painted chain and photographed in someone's backyard?
That said, there is nothing more irritating than reading hipster blogs that decry other hipsters for being hipsters.
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07-05-11, 10:20 PM
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I like this part that tells me this person is an idiot. "So why is it so hard for the Eddy Merckx factory to take some SLX tubing (or hell, ANY Columbus tubing) and replicate a run of replica Molteni track frames?"
If he would look right at the seat tube down by the bottom bracket there's the Columbus decal right there.
It's not my cup of tea but I saw a fixed gear bike the company built in the Dec. '10 issue of RBA covering Interbike. They said even though the fixed gear scene is pretty much dead they(Merckx) still decided to make it. They called it the 525 Concept bike so I'm assuming that's as far as it ever made it and pulled the plug. It was the exact same frame shown above but without all those parts. The one in the magazine looked better but still had that wacky extended seat tube. It was using a quill stem and threaded headset also compared to that thing above. I could honestly careless. Eddy hasn't owned the company since 2008. If I remember they weren't doing much actually...Pinarello was doing some of their stuff but now they just recently moved to a brand new facility still in Belgium and run by Belgiums. They're also and doing pretty much all of their own design and R&D now unlike before.
If he would look right at the seat tube down by the bottom bracket there's the Columbus decal right there.
It's not my cup of tea but I saw a fixed gear bike the company built in the Dec. '10 issue of RBA covering Interbike. They said even though the fixed gear scene is pretty much dead they(Merckx) still decided to make it. They called it the 525 Concept bike so I'm assuming that's as far as it ever made it and pulled the plug. It was the exact same frame shown above but without all those parts. The one in the magazine looked better but still had that wacky extended seat tube. It was using a quill stem and threaded headset also compared to that thing above. I could honestly careless. Eddy hasn't owned the company since 2008. If I remember they weren't doing much actually...Pinarello was doing some of their stuff but now they just recently moved to a brand new facility still in Belgium and run by Belgiums. They're also and doing pretty much all of their own design and R&D now unlike before.
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They said even though the fixed gear scene is pretty much dead they(Merckx) still decided to make it. They called it the 525 Concept bike so I'm assuming that's as far as it ever made it and pulled the plug. It was the exact same frame shown above but without all those parts.
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Eurobike 2010...believe it or not Kurt
They did have this there also which is a bit more pleasing on the eyeballs...
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They did have this there also which is a bit more pleasing on the eyeballs...
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07-05-11, 11:40 PM
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I believe it now, but it's a different frame - the Merckx downtube panel is larger. It appears to have a unicrown fork as well.
EDIT: Can't believe it took me this long to notice that the Eurobike frame has track drops and (presumably) a normal BB, as opposed to the "backyard" bike.
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EDIT: Can't believe it took me this long to notice that the Eurobike frame has track drops and (presumably) a normal BB, as opposed to the "backyard" bike.
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The ghetto version appears to have a eccentric bottom bracket and some strange rear dropouts. That thing just has ghetto written all over it.
07-06-11, 01:46 AM
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Posted a comment on the blog about the Columbus decal.
And the irony. The delicious, delicious steaming hot irony.
And the irony. The delicious, delicious steaming hot irony.
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Its a hideous bike, but the bike society is a tad bigger than C & V standards. Adjustment and change is inevitable. More bikes, better planet.
07-06-11, 04:38 AM
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At least it is easy to tell the good old (real) ones from...that.
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Prolly is the King of hipster D bags. Idiots like him are why we have bikes like this.....
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ouch. next thing you'll know some asian bloke builds a 10000$ orange trixie and shoots some hipster video with it in hongkong dressed up in molteni kit.