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07-08-09 | 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by unworthy1

But the game in Italy has always been one of sticking a widely-revered racer's name on a bike that may be built by whoever has the bandwidth to fill the order...repeat next year, and so on.

Happens everywhere. That's why there are "Eddy Merckx" bikes built in four or five different countries. MICMO in France (who also built Gitanes) kind of specialized in these types of bikes - "Anquetil," "Poulidor," "Geminiani," etc.

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