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“At the Quick-Step bus, I have never seen a bike that was so often photographed,” Speltens says. At 10 a.m., Chavanel boarded one and rode to the start. After a quick nap, he presented the bikes to Chavanel’s mechanic, who built the bikes. Speltens packed the frames and set off from the factory to the Belgian town of Wanze, starting point for that day’s stage, where he arrived at 4 a.m. ![]() A camera crew from a local Belgian television station documented the process, which finally ended around 11:30 p.m.Īt nearly 2 a.m. As he painted the frames, Eddy Merckx himself stopped in to personally apply his signature to the bikes. Merckx Cycles asked its frame painter to return to work and create two yellow MX5 frames for Chavanel. “We called the factory and people had already gone home for the day.” ![]() “We knew it was a unique moment for a small company like us,” says Peter Speltens, a marketing manager at Merckx Cycles. Team officials asked whether the company had any special plans for Chavanel’s EMX 5 racing bike. Riders Republic is out now for the PC, PlayStation and Xbox platforms.Don't miss a moment from Paris-Roubaix and Unbound Gravel, to the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and everything in between when youĪFTER SYLVAIN CHAVANEL WON stage 3 of the 2010 Tour de France and took over the race’s maillot jaune, his Quick-Step team placed a call to its bike sponsor, Eddy Merckx Cycles.
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