1995

Thank you...

Thanks! guess I'll be restoring it then
Paint is quite bad but frame integrety seems ok.
Unfortunately no card on steerer tube.

Thanks! guess I'll be restoring it then
Paint is quite bad but frame integrity seems ok.
Unfortunately no card on steerer tube.

This confuses me. Internal Cabling + SLX + flat crown fork.

Serial number is: H 5X 3816 B

What can you tell me about it? Is it just the wrong fork?

Oh, and thank you for the work you do. Amazing…

Robert

The frame is repainted, the fork can be borrowed from Professional/Corsa/Century.

What year would you make this out to be?

1989

They somehow didn't make it easy, since some didn't even have stamps as some one wrote early in the post, especially for someone without experience like myself.

At EMC, they also learned how to describe the frames - it took a while.

Hi there,

What model is this, please?

Left side: 0 (and what might be a "P"?)
Right side: Z 6295

Is this a Professional, size 50 c-c?

Thank you!

It is most likely to be the Merckx 84 (i.e. the late “Professional”). Z6295 is early 1986, P is the EMC employee code (‘flipped’ not to be confused with R which stood for Reynolds 531 tubing), 0 is a size 50 or 60. There's a chance it's a Pro, but I need a brake bridge photo to verify that. It's definitely not a Corsa or 3-Athlete.

Thank you!
Hope this helps. Can you see anything?

Just picked this one up, as you can see its a little dirty, I can get a pic but it is in good shape and needs new decals.. someone removed them already, Thinking its a Corsa from late 80's maybe early 90's?





Left up H
Left Down 7C
Right up B
Right down 7430

Corsa 1989, Columbus SL/SP tubes

Merckx 84

Thank you. Much appreciated!

Hi, just picked up a nice team Panasonic, left side is 4x, right side is z 8581. Any information is greatly appreciated. Will post pics shortly.

Corsa Extra SLX 1986 54cm

That's what I had thought. Thank you very much for all your insight in this thread.
Ron

I recently bought this EM aerodynamic - I'm thinking mid 80's?
A bottom left, Z and 4917 on right.

1985, Columbus SL/SP

Hi, thank you very much - I've seen similar EM aeros and all were from the same time period.

Hi Jacek

I’ve just got home having bought what might just be the most beautiful time-warp bike I’ve ever seen

I’ve worked out (from your previous brilliant threads on the subject) that it’s an early 80’s frame

I bought it from a very nice guy, here in the UK, that bought it from a shop in Arnhem in 1989. He raced it for 300 miles or so, and it’s been hung up in his living room ever since. He doesn’t know anything about its previous 120 mile journey from Meise before 1989, but he believes the shop owner had it in his shop for 5 years on display, as a talking point with customers.

I love the “real world” 600 groupset, original 20mm tyres, and tatty original bar tape.

Signature seat stays, seat post clamp flush, not low, dropouts stamped “Eddy Merckx”, later style BB shell, rather than with the Eddy Merckx branding. Beautiful fork crown. Serial number GT8 (on the left), then E1744.

I’ll post some pictures if the forum will let me (I don’t have many posts under my belt yet).

Would you have any thoughts on narrowing down the manufacture date, or any other insights?

Kind regards, and many thanks for sharing your encyclopaedic knowledge on these frames this far

And if anyone as any ideas about how to salvage that disintegrating Columbus water slide decal, PLEASE let me know.

Also - the tires still hold air just fine. I’m thinking about riding on them just to see how they feel. Am I mad?

Niel





Ahhhh! So pretty!

Merckx dropouts

Little Lion/Griffin logo on the tape at the edge of the chrome

Short lugs? Not sure.



20 mm Pariba’s. Apparently lethal in the wet.

Original Selle Italia saddle long gone, sadly

Sakae bars