tears for gears

Someone presumably doing a little serial number research sent me these pics the other day, and I thought I'd share them with all of you....

A few months ago, I wrote about the full suspension bikes that some Team Gan members were riding in 1994 at Paris-Roubaix. At the time, I ...

This'll be George Hincapie's 14th try at Paris-Roubaix, I believe. He's come close to winning, finishing 2nd in 2005, with a ha...

ADR, Domex, La William, Teve Blad, 7-Eleven, Hitachi and Stuttgart. As its says, Kelme not included. scan provided by 'J2000E'

My friend Harry broke his leg a few months ago. He's back on the bike now, but for a while he was stuck sitting around a whole lot. W...

Courtesy of my friend Harry, here are the Merckx pages from the 1994 Gita catalog. There's only two, so read slowly! The Century TSX is...

At a bike swap recently, I managed to score this: What's that in the bag??? New-in-bag Eddy Merckx pantographed Cinelli 1-A stem. Proba...

Sells out his shares of the bike company bearing his name, that is. http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=/tech/2008/news/10-24 I suspect h...

Hey! Long time no see! Thanks for stopping by - I've been pretty busy with life , and haven't had much time to dedicate to writing...

Eddy Merckx's birthday. If you have a Merckx, grab it and go out for a ride.

I know I've said it before, but I'll keep saying it. When you live in New York City, its tough to have a large bike collection. Ov...

Well, new in the sense that I just got it. It's a Eddy Merckx embroidered Selle Italia Turbomatic 4. I've ridden Flites for years ...

I finally began making updates to the serial list . Its been a few months. When you procrastinate with something like this, it gets harder...

I'm always on the hunt for primary sources for information about the bike stuff I'm interested in. Pictures, catalogs and the like....

One of the primary methods I've employed to decipher the Merckx serial number scheme is by setting up a search on eBay that mails me a ...

Just recently found another few Merckx sponsored teams. First up is Marc-V.R.D. , starting in 1980! Might have been the first Merckx spons...

I've been combing through various magazines and books, scanning pics of Motorola team riders, to try to lend a hand to Randy Dugan, who ...

Here's a cool picture of two of the teams riding Merckx frames in 1986 -- Kelme and Panasonic. From Winning magazine, June 1994. It wa...

I have a pretty nice collection of team jerseys, if I do say so. A few (ok, 5) of them are various Merckx sponsored team jerseys. One of t...

Here's another Merckx team -- Capri-Sonne Yep, Capri-Sonne, known here in the US as Capri Sun, those funny little silver juice pouches...