Comments on: Merckx Hour Record Bicycle

By: prolly

prolly — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:11:52 +0000

What Jeremy (the guy who cracked the Merckx SN code) and I discussed further is that the Il Vecchio Merckx was most likely “the” bike from Eddy’s private collection and that bike from the Brussels train station is one of the bikes from the previous day’s attempt. All of these frames were most likely re-decaled at one point or another, but Colnago also claims to have one of the bikes (I think they made like 6). Bottom line, only the real bike was kept in its original condition with the exact components.

But what does Tam have then? NO ONE KNOWS! haha.

It’s a quagmire!

By: Ghost Rider

Ghost Rider — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:25:04 +0000

@Randall, Prolly talks about that very bike in his article — and there is sufficient doubt that it is “the one”.

It’s a good article…nice to see the various claims distilled into one source. I like that there is no resolution, too — keeping the mystery alive!

By: criznell

criznell — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:36:21 +0000

Zing. Been my desktop background for a while. Thanks wiki

By: Randall M.

Randall M. — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:05:42 +0000

According to Wikipedia, it’s in a metro station in Brussels. The station is named after Eddy Merckx.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EddyMerckxHourRecordBike.jpg

By: Merckx Hour Record Bicycle [ Urban Velo ]

Merckx Hour Record Bicycle [ Urban Velo ] — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:33:00 +0000

[...] Merckx Hour Record Bicycle November 29th 2009 12:12pm Contributor John Prolly updates his site every Monday with pictures of Merckx bikes sometimes delving into the history behind them and their components This past week the Merckx Monday post covered the mysterious fate of Eddy8217s 1972 hour record bicycle with pictures and examinations of a number of supposed originals Made by Colnago with From: urbanvelo.org [...]

By: discoteche napoli

discoteche napoli — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:43:34 +0000

interesante