Dale
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| 01/27/2015 03:59 PM |
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http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/01/gallery/gallery-limited-edition-eddy-merckx-eddy70_359457
Holy crap! |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 01/27/2015 05:25 PM |
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Meh. That is one uninspired frame design......
And it should be Molteni Orange and sport the classic Merckx logos and headbadge.
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Cosmic Kid
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| 01/27/2015 05:28 PM |
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| Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
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zootracer
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| 01/27/2015 06:24 PM |
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| I asked my wife if I could get one and she said "sure, you can get one after the divorce"., |
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Orange Crush
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| 01/27/2015 06:45 PM |
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| epic edit fail duplicity |
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Orange Crush
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| 01/27/2015 06:49 PM |
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Posted By Orange Crush on 01/27/2015 06:45 PM
Posted By ed custer on 01/27/2015 06:24 PM
I asked my wife if I could get one and she said "sure, you can get one after the divorce".,
is that like a 2-for-1 deal?!? 
The bike looks like it would be afraid to get dirty. I only have room for one of those in my stable. Right now the $1k rough and tumble Trek is just about right. |
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longslowdistance
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| 01/27/2015 07:41 PM |
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| Needs the Cinelli 66 "Merckx" bars. |
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Master50
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| 01/28/2015 09:52 AM |
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| Lovely bike and about double the price of what it is worth.
Actually Assos has a bike and it is carbon and it is much cheaper. |
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zootracer
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| 01/28/2015 10:50 AM |
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| No custom sizes. Hope the Merckx geometry works for you..... |
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Yo Mike
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| 01/28/2015 11:20 AM |
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I like. Given the small production run, high cost is no surprise.
"Each bike will be painted like this one, in an homage to Merckx's 1968 Faema, which he rode to victory at Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d'Italia."
1968 Giro d'Italia
KoM, Giro d'Italia
Points Competition, Giro d'Italia
4 stages, Giro d'Italia
Tour of Catalonia
Tour of Romandy
Paris - Roubaix
Tre Valli Varesine
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vtguy
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| 01/28/2015 12:24 PM |
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| That's a pretty eye-popping amount. I could get two really nice bikes for that. I do like the frame, however. |
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Dale
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| 01/28/2015 02:04 PM |
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Agree with CK on the Molteni color and old style Merckx logo.
As shown the color is wrong, the panels are wrong, the logo is wrong and the price is double what it ought to be. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 01/28/2015 03:03 PM |
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Double? 3 or 4 times as high as it should be, IMO. C'mon...it is a steel bike!!
In all honesty, the only thing I find interesting / appealing about that bike is the custom Campag stuff. |
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longslowdistance
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| 01/28/2015 03:29 PM |
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I don't think he rode tangerine bikes in 68, and I'm not sure he was even on Colnagos. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 01/28/2015 04:24 PM |
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Oh, I know he wasn't on a Molteni team bike in '68......but that is the color scheme that he is most associated with. You drop that kind of coin on the bike, people should know immediately what it is.
You: "Well, you see this was the color scheme of the bike he rode in his first year as a pro. He won the Giro and Paris-Roubaix on it"
other person: *walks away and thinks "damn bike should be orange".*
There is nothing magical about this bike and linking it to 1968. It is to commemorate Eddy's 70th bday. Why not make it like the bike he is most associated with?
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zootracer
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| 01/28/2015 07:28 PM |
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Merckx rode Colnago's in the 70's when he was with Team Molteni.
He rode a Colnago with a Windsor head badge when he broke the world record in '72. Apparently made old man Colnago furious, and rightly so.
All this talk is making my dusty old Master X Light hanging in the garage very angry. Gads I paid $3000 for my MXL with Campy Record/Chorus mix in 2002. Price for frame set now is $3400!!!!!! |
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Keith Richards
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| 01/30/2015 10:25 AM |
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| I think a good reason would be that the Molteni Orange has been done to death. Another one would be just kinda "meh". |
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It is his word versus ours. We like our word. We like where we stand and we like our credibility."--Lance Armstrong. |
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Nick A
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| 01/30/2015 12:48 PM |
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| Wouldn't Rapha be more apropos? |
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