Let's see your Eddy Merckx!
10-07-22, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by CMAW
CMAW
Thank you for the link.
I read the Miyata-Merckx report (or story?) in the Japan's cycling mag, I'm not sure what mag it was.
The article of the link was just same as my memory.
And this photo!
It must have been on New Cycling, and I think Miyata still has this Merckx.
The King Merckx version bible and The King's holy handwriting.
1985, Shimano invited Merckx to Tokyo and held an event.
They screened the best cycling movie La course en tete.
After the movie, talk show and autograph session were held.
I brought 3 pieces of trade card but forgot this bible.
It was the biggest sxxt of the year!
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10-09-22, 03:52 AM
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Originally Posted by botty kayer
And today I finally finished my new MX Leader. I bought it as a complete bike that came with Shimano 105 and looked like this...
I stripped it and replaced everything apart from the headset, so its now running 28c tyres and 20 speed Campag and a mish-mash of black, silver and gunmetal/graphite/ti or whatever words the marketing department insist on using instead of grey. Despite this mix of parts I'm still very pleased with how it looks and rides. Seen here with poser summer wheels....
....but as summer seems a distant memory already, its kitted out with these 32h hole Record hubs and Open Pro combo for the coming months.
I stripped it and replaced everything apart from the headset, so its now running 28c tyres and 20 speed Campag and a mish-mash of black, silver and gunmetal/graphite/ti or whatever words the marketing department insist on using instead of grey. Despite this mix of parts I'm still very pleased with how it looks and rides. Seen here with poser summer wheels....
....but as summer seems a distant memory already, its kitted out with these 32h hole Record hubs and Open Pro combo for the coming months.
What do you think about white stem? Yay or nay? Or should I just keep it all black:
Yes, that is a Deda Newton cockpit
10-09-22, 08:50 PM
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King, Royal Guard, King's Vehicle, and Royal Carpet presented from Japan.
10-11-22, 07:14 AM
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Mine's not C&V, although I'm told it's one of the last to be made in Italy, so possibly "C" status is in its future.
A carbon SXM which had Hed Belgium wheels (because...Belgium), but they don't match the color scheme, so for photos, I threw on a pair that looks better cosmetically.
I'm hoping to add a vintage bike in the traditional blue and orange color scheme when the right one comes along.
A carbon SXM which had Hed Belgium wheels (because...Belgium), but they don't match the color scheme, so for photos, I threw on a pair that looks better cosmetically.
I'm hoping to add a vintage bike in the traditional blue and orange color scheme when the right one comes along.
10-16-22, 07:20 PM
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Merzaic, well its a strawberry, whats there not to like? especially since they haven't been built for a while now. I met Andy Newlands at a bike show at a bar in SE PDX a few yrs back and hung out with him for a while, nice guy, and meticulous builder. would've love to have had one of his frames.
10-17-22, 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by nenad
An absolute delight. Tell me, which frame size is that? 60 perhaps? By the way it was your Domo Farm Frites MXL (and this one confirms it) that convinced me to put a black headset on my Strada. Speaking of, it is a work in progress and looks like this:
What do you think about white stem? Yay or nay? Or should I just keep it all black:
Yes, that is a Deda Newton cockpit
What do you think about white stem? Yay or nay? Or should I just keep it all black:
Yes, that is a Deda Newton cockpit
10-17-22, 12:31 AM
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Originally Posted by cycledog1
Merzaic, well its a strawberry, whats there not to like? especially since they haven't been built for a while now. I met Andy Newlands at a bike show at a bar in SE PDX a few yrs back and hung out with him for a while, nice guy, and meticulous builder. would've love to have had one of his frames.
Did you meet him at Velo Cult or before that at one of the Oregon Framebuilder shows, maybe Hopworks?
So here's the story.
The old and the new, the ying and the yang, the good, bad and the ugly, you decide.
10-17-22, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by merziac
Yep and Tx, I have 3 now and another older one in the works. Andy actually built one in the last couple years and I strongly suspect he is working off a maybe long list of promised frames still to be completed. He was going to build the new one above but changed his mind.
Did you meet him at Velo Cult or before that at one of the Oregon Framebuilder shows, maybe Hopworks?
So here's the story.
The old and the new, the ying and the yang, the good, bad and the ugly, you decide.
Did you meet him at Velo Cult or before that at one of the Oregon Framebuilder shows, maybe Hopworks?
So here's the story.
The old and the new, the ying and the yang, the good, bad and the ugly, you decide.
10-17-22, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by cycledog1
Hopworks - never saw him at velo cult, and they had an event there with buildings 2nd to last yr they were in business, I met up with the guys at BreadWinner and eventually had a b-road built. but I loved the Strawberry trad build, he's a special builder and person.
DiNucci was at that Hopworks show as well with his new Allez inspired reboot build and Andy came to 2 or 3 of the Velo Cult shows including the last one before they closed.
