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Some weeks ago my eye fell on this nineties basic (it had a Campa Mirage 8-speed goupset on it) Eddy Merckx bike that was being sold for only 250 euro.
First I found it not really attractive and I didn't have any interest in the bike, but suddenly my eye fell on the brake cable routing. It was on top of the tube and that was not how things where done by Eddy back in the nineties. I asked the seller some more information and 2 or 3 e-mails later, I payed him the amount he was asking for.
So, what's the deal, you will ask. This: from the pictures the seller sent me, I learned the bike had "over the BB" derailleur cable routing and a front fork that wasn't like the ones used in the nineties. Again things pointing i the direction it being an older Merckx than the paintjob suggested.
But the biggest surprise was yet to come. The fork had one leg "Eddy" stamped in it, the other "Merckx" AND the seatstays didn't show the classic "EM" but had the Cannibal's own autograph on them.
This let the disguise fall off: this so c