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Anyway, I got it for a good price and it’s a merckx professional with all of the details of the very early ones: long lugs, flat forcrown stamped eddy & merckx, ‘ear’type-seatpost binder lug, signature seatstay engravings, bottom bracket pre-eddy ‘merckx’ cast, portacatena dropouts. But oddly, the cable guides are under the bottom bracket shell and not above, as on all other professionals from that era. I already noted the odd cable routing on the sellers photos but I bought it anyway. When the frame arrived, I noted upon closer inspection that there is an uneven surface above the bottom bracket. So it seems the cable routing has been changed at a later date and was initially over the bottom bracket.
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