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Old 01-30-2013, 03:04 PM
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Interesting Merckx carbon on the auction site
I have never seen anything like this before...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Eddy-Merckx-...-/251221826838
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:17 PM
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that thing is actually pretty cool...
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:18 PM
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that thing is actually pretty cool...
It is indeed. I have placed a bid for $5. I hope I will get it
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:26 PM
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OMG!

It has BB24!
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:33 PM
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Pretty sure it is graftek/aegis frame.... Made in Maine.
Just like the very first Trek carbon bikes.
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:37 PM
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Pretty sure it is graftek/aegis frame.... Made in Maine.
Just like the very first Trek carbon bikes.
Not sure. Donnay is a Belgian maker of tennis rackets. They started making carbon rackets in the early 90's. Maybe they teamed with Eddy to build this frame.
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:39 PM
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Link found. Feel free to use the translator of your choice

Looks like this is indeed the first Merckx carbon frame.

http://archives.lesoir.be/le-velo-do...31-Z04CJ2.html

For collectors only since it does not have BB30.
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:39 PM
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What is that pale one in the background? The End of Days is nigh!
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:45 PM
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What are you talking about? BB24??

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It has BB24!
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:57 PM
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Not sure. Donnay is a Belgian maker of tennis rackets. They started making carbon rackets in the early 90's. Maybe they teamed with Eddy to build this frame.
No.
Duplessis family made carbon rackets etc for many different brands- including donnay.
I went to school in Maine & while study ME I was able to visit the shop- at the time I never believed carbon bikes would be the future...

The give away that it is an aegis built frame is the binder bolt and the drop outs.
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Old 01-30-2013, 04:10 PM
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No.
Duplessis family made carbon rackets etc for many different brands- including donnay.
I went to school in Maine & while study ME I was able to visit the shop- at the time I never believed carbon bikes would be the future...

The give away that it is an aegis built frame is the binder bolt and the drop outs.
Edit: not really sure who's right now. The newspaper archive (link above) says Donnay is expecting the vacuum molds to build those frame, and the production will start soon (in Belgium I assume). It also mentions that several Donnay employees will stay for two months in the Eddy Merckx factory to train about bikes.

Edit 2: here's another one saying the bikes will be made in Belgium, in the town of Couvin. http://archives.lesoir.be/deux-mois-...12-Z04E23.html

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The future depends on him on the association Donnay-Merckx. Where the contract which will bring together two names for the manufacture of bicycles "Merckx by Donnay" in Couvin, bikes composite, tubes or solid, which were presented for the first and the Ispo Cisel before presentation of the full range, with catalog, the Milan Fair in mid-November.
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What are you talking about? BB24??
It's a big fat "modern-looking" BB, like BB30/BB86/BBwrong, whatever else they're called. But presumably it's actually ITA threaded and fits 24mm axles. Hence... BB24.
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Link found. Feel free to use the translator of your choice
Pssst, Philippe, I'm not sure Georges will need the translator!
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Old 01-30-2013, 04:43 PM
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To me looks like a regular threaded ITA or English threaded BB ...

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It's a big fat "modern-looking" BB, like BB30/BB86/BBwrong, whatever else they're called. But presumably it's actually ITA threaded and fits 24mm axles. Hence... BB24.
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Old 01-30-2013, 04:54 PM
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Mon pote- you just proved my point.
Read the date of the articles and then look back at old eddy catalog and see what year the first carbon bikes appeared- roughly 6 years after. And none looked like these.
No carbon racquets were ever made by donnay because before after they moved production from Maine to Asia which almost killed the brothers d up in Maine.... It does not sound like they had an expertise in carbon to make a basic racquet or a more complex bike frame.

The frame looks like an aegis...just saying.
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