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The best bicycle racer of all time...

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1.27.2010

    Eddy Merckx branded bicycles have been made by various select builders: Italians Masi, Colnago, DeRosa, British Falcon, Belgian Kessels and Japanese Miyata...  Then by Eddy Merckx himself in his own workshop www.eddymerckx.be

2010 bicycle line catalog cover with vintage Eddy picture

The early years
  
  

Worlds Championship jersey and
1971 Tour de France..

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    Eddy Merckx bicycle serial number registry HERE
Starting with Belgian made bicycles
(other country's serial numbers maybe later)

The Hour Record: History and Controversy

Bicycle Guide article 3/1991 about th
e Hour Record

1972 Hour Record bike (one of two?) built by Colnago
photo by Tom Maloney ~Cycling News

 

Eddy opened his own frame building shop in 1980...

  L:  Eddy and his mentor, Ugo DeRosa     R: Views of the Merckx factory
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1982 complete pro bike
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Kevin Kruger's E2534 unusual aero tubed bike

           
     

Scott Ramsay's early 1980s Merckx made bike, serial #E 5306.
The chrome lugs make this an unusual version.

  

         
 
           

 Matthew Simon's Pista # E 9701

  

David Schelor's authentic 7-11 bike  #A 9816

        

     

     

  

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