Monday, September 10, 2007

Merckx Rebranding (and another team frame)

Yes, yes, I promised the next post would be more team bikes, but sometimes a guy gets busy, and can't get things together for a proper post.

Luckily, someone who read one of my previous posts sent me me interesting catalog scans. Michele lives over in Sweden, and was the person who let me know that in his area of the world, the Stuttgart color scheme is also know as the PK-Banken scheme. He owns a stunning example of a frame in the same color scheme, fitted out in full Croce d'Aune. He has a few other bikes that are really nice as well.



He sent along this scan from the 1990 Crescent catalog. In it, you can see a Crescent AND Merckx labeled frame in the Stuttgart/PK-Banken color scheme, ridden by Jan Carlsson, who I'm told was the Swedish time trial champion.



In the same scan, you can also see a blue and white fade Merckx. The same color scheme was used by...

Intral-Renting in 1988.

He also sent along a scan of a relabeled Merckx frame from the 1989 catalog...but since its the same color as the frame of 2 teams we haven't discussed yet, it'll have to wait...

4 comments:

BikeNelson said...

Do you have any other info on the Crescent line? I just bought a Merckx Crescent and wondered the exact year... Perhaps it is 89 by the C-Record Group. 14sp Friction.
Any info would be a big help. Thanks.

Jeremy said...

Merckx Crescents will follow the same serial scheme as regular Merckx frames - they've just had different decals applied. Check the links at the right for the one to my serial decoding page.

BikeNelson said...

This is the exact bike that I happened upon.
http://www.cykelhobby.com/bilder/em1989.jpg
The only difference is SR brakes instead of C-Record Delta's and there is a number plate hanger with Campy bolt. I hear they don't put them on stock production runs so maybe this is a team bike.

BikeNelson said...

WOW, sorry... Just found your September 2007 post that shows the same bike sans number plate hanger and a different rear derailur. I wish I could find out more...

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