Official gallery of your Eddy Merckx bike(s)

here is a link to some great pics of a 54cm corsa01 in GAN colors.

https://s205.photobucket.com/albums/bb274/amt27photos/eddy merckx corsa 01 gan team/?start=all

Corsa 01

52cm ctc seat, 54cm ctc top tube
build is mostly ultegra with open pro wheels and conti 4 season tires 700x25c. DA shifters and Ritchey crank 50/34. Cinelli X/A stem 130cm and Cinelli Criterium 65-44 bars. Regal saddle. The color is an italian race red with some orange in it. My camera makes it look more pale than it is in person. The lettering is a silver/white to blue fade.

This is mine, exactly same frame size although I measured 52 x 53.5, close enough I suppose.

Sadly it's up for sale on ebay as I'm studying this year and culling. The Merckx is the most pristine and therefore the easist to sell. I've changed tape colour to white to match the tyres.

I'm heartbroken as it's one of the smoothest bikes I've ridden but I've made my decision.

You should love riding yours. Enjoy.

Marz,
if you can don't sell all your stuff. Keep at least one bike. I speak from my past. I stopped racing when I went to college in 1993 and sold my stuff to pay for school and flying lessons. I wish I had kept at least one of my old racing bikes (see cannondale forum pics).

And yes for the record the tt on the 52cm is more like a 53.5. My tape measure shows a bit longer than 53.5 though that's why I put 54cm.

Good luck with the studies.

here is a pic of my NOS 52cm MX Leader Frame. I think it is a 1996 or 98 frame. I bought it back in 2006 and have it stored in a nice dry place at my parents house. I saving it for later in life to build and ride.

Beautiful MXL, beautiful colour. I had one of those too but found it too stiff, now I wouldn't mind having again. Where did you get your frame and do you have the fork?

I'm not selling all my bikes. I'm definately keeping my yellow 2004 De Rosa Merak with Chorus and Proton wheels, it's beautiful but I'd never get my money back on it.

I also have an Australian made Hillman 531C tubing, which they built custom for me but gave it a 54.5 tt, so I use a 100mm stem on it, Definately too long, what were they thinking?

I'll save up over the next few years for the dream bike, a Pegoretti Marcelo (if I ever find my size on ebay). Couldn't afford a new one as it would be about $AUD5000.

Marz,
it's good to hear your not selling the lot. Yes I have the matching fork for the MXL. I got the frame in Jan06 from www.wrenchscience.com. BTW the marcelo is an awsome bike from what i hear.

Another Red Corsa 01

Here is my Corsa 01, (ex South Africa) via "waydownsouth", sent to New Jersey instead of New Zealand. After 12 months of waiting it finally arrived and then I had all the fork steerer length dramas experienced by so many of these frames... Built up with a full 8speed (7400 series) Dura Ace group c1991. The l-o-n-g wait has been worth it, I can't wait for a good long ride this weekend!! Thinking maybe a blue San Marco Rolls saddle to finish it off...or maybe a white one with white bar tape?!

backofthebunch said:

Here is my Corsa 01, (ex South Africa) via "waydownsouth", sent to New Jersey instead of New Zealand. After 12 months of waiting it finally arrived and then I had all the fork steerer length dramas experienced by so many of these frames... Built up with a full 8speed (7400 series) Dura Ace group c1991. The l-o-n-g wait has been worth it, I can't wait for a good long ride this weekend!! Thinking maybe a blue San Marco Rolls saddle to finish it off...or maybe a white one with white bar tape?!

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Beautiful. I had my doubts about the white cable casing but it does work. White sadle and bar tape could work as well - I will happily look after the Turbomatic for you. Looking forward to joining you for a ride on the weekend. :thumbsup:

52cm Merckx Leader

here is my 52cm Leader (aluminum) with ultegra. It is now stripped and hanging at my parents house in PA and the ultegra is on my Caad9 c-dale (see c-dale pics forum). I have a centaur group for this Merckx (also stored at my parents home) that i am going to build the frame with. below it is a pic of an old viner I had that has the centaur group i'm going to put on the leader.

some Merckx frames hanging in the basement waiting builds

52cm corsa extra
52cm merckx mxl
50cm merckx leader (also have a 52cm pic'd above)
the 2 other frames hanging are custom Dreesens (built in Pottstown, PA) track and road. The track is inch and 3/8's OS steel lugged. Can't wait to move back to PA and build that bike up for t-town. the bottom is an old Guerciotti SL tubing I sold last year.

My Max tubing SS

Ya not a Merckx but thought you might like to see it. The Fork is an Orange.

my circa 90's Corsa

I finally got my Corsa set up the way I like it (pretty much). I don't know about the saddle color (yellow thigh pads) but I do know the saddle will have to be this model, maybe just not this color. Also I may put on dark brown leather bar tape but I think it looks pretty good with the black cork right now.
I bought this in pieces. The frame came from Germany, the grouppo from Oregon incl the wheels.
It's pretty much full Campy Chorus 9 speed. Not quite period correct but close. The handle bars I just got today and they came from France. eBay of course, frame, grouppo, bars and saddle. So it's a real international build. It's a nice ride but a bit stiffer than my Serotta but that may be because of the wheels.
More pics of this in various stages of build are at:
https://s150.photobucket.com/albums/s92/martinrjensen/Eddy Merckx/

oopps, sorry

Very Very Nice. Stay away from the brown leather bars IMHO the frame has enough "going on" in terms of colour and "style". But you've got to get rid of that saddle bag / cannondale lunchbox!! Great work, enjoy your rides.

the bars

You could be right on the bars. The bike is pretty busy already. The black is pretty neutral and I think balances the looks pretty good. I agree about the cannondale bag too.
thanks

backofthebunch said:

Very Very Nice. Stay away from the brown leather bars IMHO the frame has enough "going on" in terms of colour and "style". But you've got to get rid of that saddle bag / cannondale lunchbox!! Great work, enjoy your rides.

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martinrjensen said:

You could be right on the bars. The bike is pretty busy already. The black is pretty neutral and I think balances the looks pretty good. I agree about the cannondale bag too.
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You could always go with white tape on the bars. That would make the white on the frame pop a little better. I think the black is a slightly overbearing with that light color scheme.

Or you could go with blue tape to match the blue frame accents.

Otherwise, beautiful!

Black & White

Hi all,

Finally got around to giving my favourite ride a much needed tune-up. I know most builds here are to spec as at time of construction, with the use of era components. I just had a '08 Centaur groupset lying around doing nothing and figured....what the heck.

Wheelset - Prolite Gavia's
Groupset - '08 Campagnolo Centaur
Stem/Handlebars - Modolo

Couldn't decide on a color for the frame, so went for a B&W build in the end. Pretty happy with the final result and still my fav bike after 15yrs on many saddles

Wow......that is really, really nice. What kind of seatpost is that? I can't imagine where you found a white Modolo quill stem, but it's sharp. Any reason you went alloy cranks rather than carbon? You could also swap the Centaur brakes for black Veloce's if you wanted to be really, really picky

Beautiful bike!