204 watchers, I wonder how many offers he has?

It's really an amazing bike.

YES! And how long is that crank arm?

Are those long cranks? This might have been Merckx's climbing bike. The big chainring looks big, too.

It's a lot cleaner than the bikes Lemond rode. They were on display here at the Rapha store. It had electrical tape and such in a few places.

I'd have loved to have seen those...Della Santas?

Yo, on my way to Wal-marseillaise to meet a guy. Wuts better orange or blue bikes? Tx

Check the thread on what's better? Gas pipe or cheap aluminum. They'll know.

Believe it or not, I don't remember. Maybe [MENTION=63590]jyl[/MENTION] remembers. We visited at the same time when he was in NYC.

I'm not an expert on what Lemond rode and when...but i seem to recall some drool worthy Lemond badged bikes built by RDS as well as some badged Bottechias that I believe were RDS as well.

Sorry, but no. Not true. I spend a couple of weeks a year in France and I have to stick up for the French here. :)

People are people...warts and all. Same old crap everywhere you go.

This reminds me of what I love about vintage bikes. What Eddy was riding was pretty much the same as what I could have walked into a bike store and bought for a reasonable amount of money. It's not like to day where the top riders have custom-made carbon machines that are financially out of reach for all but the most well-heeled folks.

In the 70s you probably never would have heard of Ugo De Rosa ;)

You'd be on a PX-10...like Merckx gave to his manager and replaced with a De Rosa in peugeot paint.

Hah! I remember reading the 1974 article in Bicycling and deciding that I wanted a De Rosa (plus, my girlfriend's uncle owned a De Rosa). At the time I owned a Raleigh International, all Campy NR, which I raced in a few criteriums, so I was in fact "living the dream" and riding a bike not too far off what Eddy was riding.

How do I know the bar tape is original?

DNA / ancestry test?

So this is the rare tape made from the Australian goodjuju tree with traceable provenance?

Interesting. That's not a bad price.

The LeMond bikes we saw were the ones he rode to his three TdF and two WC. I recall a Look Bernard Hinault with the "Bernard Hinault" lettering missing (!), maybe a Bottechia?, a carbon Calfee, and I can't recall. The groups were Mavic and Campagnolo.

He rode Della Santas earlier in his career, I think.

I'm pretty sure the Bottechia was RDS. Love those Looks.

Having held a Lemond RDS frame and closely inspected it, they are no nonsense high quality frames made of standard tubing of the day. If a racer attributed frame comes up, the dimensions would be the first thing I would check, since there is little else to distinguish a top level frame from what a cat 3 rider with some funds would have been able to get.

Others clearly want the attribution of a particular frame, but I would just as soon save my money and see the same bikes in a museum. YMMV

Now, if only the GAN bicycles were a 1974 GAN-Mercier ridden by Raymond Poulidor. He finished 2nd to Merckx that year in both the Tour de France and the World Championships in Montreal. That would make a pair worth owning!

Oh yeah, now you're talking!