For Sale: The Eddy Merckx hour record track bike!

This is a total nerd thing to write, that I can't believe I'm writing, but I can't help myself:

I touched the "real thing" at the Harrogate Show in 1976...yes, I am that old....when it was on display there. The actual bike had drilled handlebars (yes, you read that correctly) and the holes then taped over with sellotape (yes, you read that correctly too) and was already pretty battered after 4 years of doing the rounds of trade shows. It looked nowhere near as prstine as the one on show in the tubestation, which no doubt was a spare bike.....

There you go....I told you I was sad....

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