EDDY MERCKX MX leader columbus max

I acquired this a few months ago and its been on the back burner a bit due to work busy-ness but I'm starting to get this project going a little bit now so i thought i would share.

Having visited my local frame builder he pointed out that he had a road mx leader in my size that was in for a repair job on the dented top tube (he had done a fine job of rolling out the dent). Turns out the guy who had it on for repair had bought something else in the meantime so I got this repaired frame for a good price.

I have sourced a NOS mx leader fork and currently am planning on putting a dura-ace 7410 groupo on it once it has a new paint job. I currently torn between the classic motorola or 7-eleven colourway.

Hubs are currently with the lbs getting built to open pro's

Frame:

Fork:

Group:

Merckx and Max: what more could a girl ask for?

Noice

I'm just going to leave this link here as this is what I'm aiming at..

http://columbusmaxbikes.blogspot.ca/2011/01/eddy-merckx_28.html

Cool. Who's painting it and when?

The local paint shop is Dekerf, So I'm going to go and sound them out as soon as I can get out there. I have already spoken to them about sourcing decals etc.

http://www.dekerf.com/paintshop.asp

I've got a SLX Corsa Extra in Motorola colours that I built up with 7410. Thread here (some pics have died):

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/213991/

P.S. What gives with the saggy brake cable in the catalogue photo?

Dream frame that. What about the Team Stuttgart colourway? Definitely my fav.

+1 on the Stuttgart colourway.

Yes that Stuttgart colourway is really rad.. though i am also the owner of the below frame. Which i have had sitting around for a long long time, i have recently had a steel fork built for it. I was too tempted by the matchy matchy motorola pursuit and road frames.. So its going Motorola and the pursuit is getting a tidied up and fork paint while its in the shop as well. I have to wait til mid january for the paint to be done but its exciting times.

(not my build)

(not my build)

I should hope not: straight to anti-porn >>>>>>>>

Matchy matchy is almost always great. Especially when it comes to Merckx. Good choice!

You're dead to me.

No matchy?

I would love to know where you sourced that silver Leader fork from ?.

My leader is an ex-pro Team Telekom frame and i loathe the black front end, too dark.

@Fignon I got it from BLB of all places, after hunting around a bit & having no joy it came up in a search and I thought it was worth having the correct fork.

The 7-Eleven colour way frames are much more difficult to come by, but that said, did they use MX tubing back in 87/88??

@stringfellow1946 I don't know too much about the dates of the 7eleven colourways, another reason i decided to go with the motorola paint. Frames are still with the paintshop but i did pick up this stem today.

120mm 1 inch threadless cinelli grammo

Still undecided on Bars but i think they should be cinelli also still locating a dura-ace seatpost and I think its either got to be a turbo or flite for the saddle.

The team used Avocet O2 saddles I think, but I couldn't find one anywhere so I went for an R1, which is way more comfy than it looks.

Progress on this pretty much ground to a halt for 4 months due to the guy at the paint shop receiving the wrong masks for the frame twice. Things however have picked up a bit in recent weeks, painter now has the correct masks and Im expecting to collect the finished frame in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime i picked up a NOS avocet o2 saddle from Hilary Stone and i also still don't have a BB. Does anyone know what length i'd need to find for the dura-ace 7400 cranks in the photo above?

pardon my question, but is it true that top tube is backward? is it columbus max or some other tube?

matchy merckx's paint jobs are now complete:

@eroika.pl Im not too much of a aficionado on tubing directions, but it is indeed MAX.

I'm curious; how would it be backward?