Originally Posted by rekmeyata

Actually, either last year or the year before Merckx got on a bike for the first time in 25 years when some reporters were at his place, the reporters had to get on bikes to carry on the interview, he left the reporters in his dust, the reporters claimed they couldn't keep up and all them were in their 20's. At least that's how the story was reported, if true then he's just genetically gifted...unless he secretly doped before the reporters got there.

Supposedly since then he's been riding again quite a bit, but before the incident I mentioned, the reporters claimed Merckx said he hadn't been on a bike for 20 or 25 years.