The Merckx Full Circle Project

Hey Paul, how did your build end up?! Any pictures?!

My Bianchi managed to get put together 15 minutes before our van departed for the Retro in Oudenaarde last month, which meant that I got to do a first shakedown run of the 30 year old bird, cracked tires and vintage brake pads and all, on the cobblestones and descents of Belgium. Held up like a charm, and looked the bit too!

Hi Dave, would love to see any pics from the Retro ride, especially of how your Bianchi ended up too. Sounds great. Glad you got it ready in time.

My Merckx will finally be ready next week I hope. I spent a long time deliberating over pedals. '92 seemed to be a year when Campag were still doing toestraps, but also just bringing clipless too.

In the end I opted for toestraps. And it's taken me a long time to source the pedals. But I got 'em finally last week. There's a couple of bits I don't have tools for, so it's going to the shop on Friday to have a couple of things done, then hopefully I'll be riding it next week.

Finally.