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Eddy Merckx
The best bicycle racer Ever!
   Click on images to see a larger view.                                 Updated 6/5/2004

     
The early years

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Worlds Championship jersey and
1971 Tour de France..

The Hour Record: History and Controversy


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

Bicycle Guide article 3/1991 about the Hour Record

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

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 L:  Eddy and his mentor, Ugo DeRosa     R: Views of the Merckx factory

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1982 complete pro bike

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

  

         
 
           

 

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