Originally Posted by
Bianchigirll
the bike is nice but needs alot of cleaning. Merckx bikes garner alot of interest but I am not sure a buyer would take the whole kit and kabodle. is the catalog stained or something?
back to the bike it looks like someone replaced the brake levers at some point, do you hae the originals? my favorite part is the rear HiLo hub. any idea what the tubing type is? is there a date on the RD?
The brake levers are minor, the dirt is not that serious, the scratch on the down tube might be, which leads me to the fork... it appears later to me, in the catalog imaged it even shows the square shouldered crown, not a sloping unit. Friends way back had those bikes all had the flat topped crown. I would expect a painted fork with the eddy merckx logo "engraved" into the top of each side. The next version had the EM logo then the sloping crown later. I think crash at some point.
Sell the goodies separately, maybe give the bike buyer first refusal.