Pretty good choice for a first road bike. Used to own a TCR2 - loved it! I remember my first race with my EddieMerckx was the Jock... 3 stages and 150km of hell. Groupset was warn so badly everytime the hill got steeper and the torque increased, the chain would come off. I had to make a plan so I sold a VW Beetle body for R1200 and upgraded my bike with a new chainring, chain and 105 STI levers . Some time later stripped the paintwork, chromed the chainstays and fork and sprayed the rest powder blue with cherry-pink (if ever there were such name for a color) EddieMerckx decals (similar colors to the EddieMerckx Corsa model). I even phoned the old man up in Belgium wanting him to send me new decals and a CulumbusSLX frame sticker for the bike to keep it as close to authentic as possible. He thought I was kidding.... I eventually cut a picture from a Merckx brochure I got from Queens' and stuck it on the frame.... Sold it for a tidy profit some years later for the TCR2... Boesman2007-08-30 06:17:21
