For Sale Eddy Merckx 1986 Corsa Extra 55cm FAEMA 1968 Colours

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Very clean Corsa Extra in Merck's 1968 Faema team colours. 55cm centre to centre seat, 55.5cm top tube. Rare Team Faema 1968 colour scheme. Original paint. No dents or dings. Columbus SLX tubing, comes with new Stronglight A9 roller bearing headset and brand new 180 gr Stronglight titanium bottom bracket (£200).
Clearing out my dad's shed, a few more classic Italian frames to follow.

Very few restorations of this 1968 classic exist Vs the Molteni orange cliche

£550 reduced to £500 now £475 now £450

 

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Now £500

 

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More pics added.

 

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A link to the original Eddy Merckx Faema, and what can be done as a replica of the 1968/69 bike:

Vélo MERCKX FAEMA 1969 / 70 - Le blog de velosvintage.over-blog.com

Réplique du vélo d' Eddy MERCKX (B). FAEMA, groupe sportif, en 1969, c'est l' association avec les cycles Merckx. Inscrit comme groupe italo-belge, la direction est assurée en belgique par Guillaume Driessens et pour l' italie par Marino Vigna. C'est...

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Weekend special: £475

 

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New photo added: 1968 Eddy Merckx badged Faema team bike (he did get his face on everything!) from the Merckx museum in his Belgian factory.

Could be a really interesting build - finding the recently introduced '68 Nuovo Record groupset parts, the flat QR, 'no record' hubs, no logo brakes and the 151bcd chainsets!

If you wanted to swap out the head/seat tube decals (they should come off) the original Merckx/Faemino decals are available here: https://bicycledecals.net/collections/eddy-merckx/products/eddy-merckx-set-700

 

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Final reduction £450

 

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