With arguably the largest title in skilled biking of all time, Eddy Merckx was not going to be glad to stroll away from bike racing when he retired from racing in 1978. As many different riders did, Eddy went into producing bikes. As a rider, Merckx was well-known to be fanatical concerning the bikes he rode via his profession, famously obsessed along with his place, he had a eager eye for the tiniest element when it got here to bikes.
De Rosa High quality
When he arrange his enterprise, Eddy travelled to De Rosa in Italy to coach with them, and find out how they produced excessive finish bikes. Eddy had ridden De Rosa bikes via his profession. Ugo De Rosa, the proprietor of De Rosa, then travelled as much as Belgium to fulfill Merckx’s first staff. De Rosa had been a big affect on Eddy’s enterprise because it started. By the 1980’s and 90’s Eddy Merckx offered the bikes for among the most iconic biking groups of the period, together with 7-Eleven and Motorola.
Supplies Matter
Through the 1980’s and 90’s, Merckx bikes used Italian Columbus body tubing, together with Columbus Max, MXL, SLX and TSX. Merckx moved briefly into titanium tubing earlier than carbon fibre grew to become mainstream and extra accessible. Earlier than carbon fibre framesets had been produced within the far-east, they had been produced in Italy. A few of the contents of a Merckx manufacturing unit & warehouse had been bought via Merlin in 2016.
Journey with Ridley
In 2017, Race Productions NV, the corporate homeowners of fellow Belgian model, Ridley, acquired the Eddy Merckx model to make sure it’s survival after a number of years of not being worthwhile. With Ridley and Eddy Merckx working in unison, the 2 largest names in Belgian biking needs to be assured future success.
