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Originally Posted by jet sanchez
Mine says Corsa Extra but there is no tubing decal and it has a Leader fork.
Found it on CL, it had been doing trainer duty for many years in the basement of a friend of Walter Godefroot who was the coach for Telekom.
It seems that it is one of Olaf Ludwig's racing rigs from the 1995 season as that was the only year that this colour scheme was used.
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The situation has changed unexpectedly...
By accident, while looking for information about titanium EMC I found such a photo:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joehendrix/3087113016
...and then I searched for a photo from TdF94 - the whole Telekom team had bikes in painting pattern 95, they were introduced as early as in summer 1994. As you can see, Zabel bicycle is also a "compounder", but "the other way around", that is Mx Leader frame + Corsa Extra fork. Since they did it this way they could do it in a different way, and your frame number fits perfectly into the "spring series" produced before TdF. Chances that it's authentic increased to 99%
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