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03-18-17 | 01:32 AM

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merziac

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According to Merz, those dropouts are custom Ritchey.

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Originally Posted by unworthy1

Thanks for taking and posting these pictures, wonderful to see them!

Now to stir a little controversy: Love seeing any of Tom Ritchey's vintage frames and that red/orange number is true eye-candy, but...1975?
With those short dropouts?
Unless I'm misinformed (no doubt about that) neither Campagnolo nor Gipiemme were selling that style of dropout in 1975, so could these be Tange "TR" dropouts and if so are they the very first run?
Or is the date incorrect?
I've been told that the first date that Campy versions were widely offered is '78 but MAYBE '77 to a very few special (Italian) customers...

And how about that STEM, what's the story on that piece?

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