And I'm sure our eagle eyed Polish friend has already clapped his peepers on this, but for everyone else this has just popped up on UK eBay.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285492169...Bk9SR5i_98LbYg
A claimed Merckx built, Caloi badged ex Sean Yates Team Motorola frame. Yates was a total horse of a man, and looking at those mahoosive stays and chunky frame main tubes it looks like its Columbus Max, which would figure for a beast like Yates. Also I note the Caloi bikes have different forks to any of the Merckx bikes of the era, what material do we think the fork is, is it even steel or possibly alu? Personally I'm not a fan on the looks of these forks and much prefer the Mercks ones, especially the Max ones on MX Leaders. Edit: it does look like a steel fork but there's no side on view of the forks so can't really tell if they are Max forks or not. I'd expect them to be, no?
But I am a little puzzled as the first pic Yates riding at speed (I don't think he had any other speed!)
, the frame looks a few sizes bigger than the frame in the rest of the advert. I know Yates was a tall unit, but also know nowadays pro's are prone to riding frame that are a few sizes too small for them, but did they do that back in Yates's era too?
Anyway cool bit of history if its as claimed.
PS I've got too many Eddy bikes so though its in England and it piqued my interest, I'm not in the market for it.