Originally Posted by Batman_3000

All this talk about merckx bikes having special handling and "ride" in spite of being mass-produced... no objections to that, but does anybody have any facts here, like was the Merckx frame geometry in any way different from other bikes like Peugeots, Lejeunes, Anquetils, (Gitanes) or any other number of bikes made by big factories and branded a rider's name ?

This isn't a negative or derogatory post, just an inquiry. And it is not because I have used a disk cutter on several mass-produced Merckx bikes that I disaprove of them.