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Eddy70 (Limited Edition) by Eddy Merckx Cycles

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Post date February 7, 2015
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Eddy70 Bike by Eddy Merckx cycles — The EDDY70 is a limited edition, state-of-the-art instrument of victory with a design reminiscent of the Faema chapter of Eddy’s cycling career. And although the material it is made of refers to the steel age of cycling this is a modern high-tech and high-performance racing bike. Moreover, it is handmade in Belgium by one of the best technicians who spent his entire career working with and for Eddy Merckx himself.

The legendary Eddy Merckx is turning 70 years old this year, on June 17, 2015. To celebrate, the bike brand that bears his name, the Eddy Merckx Cycles is producing a limited edition, modern, high-quality stainless steel racing bike: Eddy70. There will be only 70 examples produced, and the first specimen (No 1) has already been reserved for Eddy Merckx himself. The other 69 bikes will be available from September at a selection of bike stores.

The frames of the new bike will be TiG-welded, painted, and polished in-house at the Eddy Merck Cycles factory in Zellik. Since Eddy Merckx has always been the most prominent ambassador for Campagnolo, the famous Italian brand has agreed for the first time to customize the components used in this limited-edition bike.

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Sarto Frames 2015

Sarto Lampo 2015 complete bike (featured)

Sarto is an Italian custom bicycle frame manufacturer. The company was founded by Antonio Sarto in 1950. Since then, they’re producing handmade custom bicycle frames.

Sarto produces more than 2,500 frames each year. The Italian bicycle manufacturer sees the customization as their strength, which allows them to satisfy the customer’s every need: the choice of materials, the shape of the tubes, made-to-measure geometries, graphics and reinforcements in Kevlar or titanium/carbon. Every feature of a Sarto frame can be changed and selected by the customer.

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Chesini Florentia MMXIII

In September 2013, UCI Road World Championships have been held in Florence (Firenze), Tuscany, Italy. Chesini wanted to celebrate this event with a limited bike series: Chesini Florentia MMXIII (MMXIII equals 2013 in Roman numerals). The artisanship of Chesini and the creativity of SAK_ART DESIGN, a known brand in industrial and lifestyle design, have come together and with a common passion created these unique bicycles. You can read the whole story in the article titled Sak_art design.

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Jaegher Interceptor and Ascender 2015

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Post date October 6, 2014
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Jaegher is a Belgian company, building tailor-made steel frames since 1934. It is founded by Odiel Van Eenooghe, a Belgian cyclist who participated in Milan-San Remo and in 1932 he won the toughest stage in the Tour of Belgium.

Their slogan is “the steel feel is impossible to translate into numbers & tables”.

Eddy Merckx was also a customer of their frames.

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Shut up Hour! Voigt’s hour record attempt bike

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Post date September 12, 2014
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Jens Voigt's Hour Record Attempt Bike-Trek Speed Concept 9-series - Track

Trek has revealed the bike which Jens Voigt will use n his Hour Record attempt on September 18. The Trek Speed Concept 9 series bike has a Shimano Dura-Ace drivetrain and full disc wheels.

It is a modified version of Trek’s standard time trial machine, which Trek Factory Racing team using in the road races. The biggest modifications are – changes in the rear dropouts to accommodate track hub spacing of 120mm, and removal of the front and rear integrated brakes (they replaced with carbon filler to maintain the same surface geometry as the standard Speed Concept).

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Colnago for Ferrari CF12

Colnago Ferrari CF12. The bike built on a carbon monocoque frame with Shimano XT drivetrain and wheels, and Geax AKA 27.5'' tires.

This year there’s no Colnago-Ferrari road bike, instead, there’s a 27.5” mountain bike: Colnago for Ferrari CF12. The bike built on a carbon monocoque frame with Shimano XT drivetrain and wheels, and Geax AKA27.5” tires. (see notes 1)

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Specialized celebrates 40th anniversary with a lugged-steel limited edition Allez frame

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Post date September 2, 2014
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Specialized Allez 40th Anniversary Limited Edition - a lugged steel bike made in USA. There will be only 74 pieces of this beauty.

In celebration of the 40th anniversary, the California-based bicycle manufacturer Specialized has produced a lugged-steel limited edition Allez frame, in collaboration with Mark DiNucci, one of their original frame builders.

There will be only 74 pieces of the Limited Edition Specialized Allez (the company was founded in 1974), and they will be auctioned on eBay on September 8th for supporting World Bicycle Relief.

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Colnago C60 Limited Edition

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Post date September 1, 2014
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Colnago C60 - 60th Anniversary Limited Edition

Colnago is celebrating 60 years of frame production with a special bike, as usual. The new Colnago C60 Limited edition is based on the chassis of Colnago C60, with some changes. The most obvious modifications are the graphics and paint job and the titanium plaque with the serial number of each bike.

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BMC unveils futuristic Impec concept road bike at Eurobike

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Post date August 29, 2014
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BMC Impec Concept road bike - futuristic, sharp, and slightly "weird"

Futuristic, sharp, and maybe a bit weird: over the last few days a lot of people talking about Swiss bike manufacturer BMC’s new Impec concept bike, which unveiled at the Eurobike 2014 in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

BMC is a producer that always seeks new probabilities, one good example is the previous BMC Impec Lamborghini edition. Defining their goal as “zero error in the production phase”, “handmade by machines” is the motto of BMC impec, referring to their use of customized industrial robotics in an automatized and controlled process to assemble advanced carbon fiber composites at high degrees of precision.

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LeMond Washoe: A steel beauty from Greg LeMond

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Post date August 14, 2014
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Greg LeMond introduced a new bicycle, this time a steel beauty: Greg LeMond Washoe. The frame of the new bike has been made of Reynolds 853 steel tubes. It is coming with only Shimano drivetrain with four different builds (105, Ultegra, Ultegra Di2, Dura-Ace Di2) for now, but Campagnolo versions will be available in late 2014.

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