For sale here on eBay is a complete bike built around now-retired Frenchman Hubert Dupont’s 2019 AG2R La Mondiale team Eddy Merckx Stockeu69 carbon frame.
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Vincent Lavenu’s AG2R La Mondiale team switched to Factor’s Eddy Merckx executive machines at the end of the 2018 season. Although the decal of the driver Hubert Dupont in this box says ”2018” in small amounts, it is only the decal that remains this season, as the team was still on factor’s soft blue motorcycles that year.
This more stealthy-looking black frame is, according to the seller, a Ridley Helium SLX under the paint. But most of all, you know that the Ridley and Eddy Merckx brands belong to the Belgian Cycling Factory group.
The electronic organization Shimano Ultegra Di2 suggests that it is a spare motorcycle, the main motorcycles ” of the riders have used Dura-Ace Di2, or it is a ”first’ motorcycle’ and has just been rebuilt with the moment of Shimano, but it remains excellent, electronic organization. In fact, the motorcycle has a new pair of Fulcrum Racing 3 wheels with Pirelli P Zero tires, which the Mavic and Vredestein wheels used throughout the equipment.
The so-called Stockeu69 in the table refers, of course, to the rise of the Cote de Stockeu which looks like the One-Day Belgian classic Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Merckx holds the record for top wins in Liege with five wins, and 1969 the year he won it for the first time.
As for Dupont, the 39-year-old Frenchman retired at the end of the 2019 season, and could even have been the last coach he ran for Grand Piemonte last October. He will return to a good last season, which included 8th place in the 4th tier of the Tour of the Alps, and an excellent 15-year career that included many smart performances, eleventh overall in the Giro d’Italia in 2011. and 2016, for example, and some close to road failures, as well as the final touch of 22 of the 23 Grand Tours that Array started, adding last year’s Spin.
Dupont rode mainly in the service of others at AG2R, which was where he spent all but the first year of his pro career in 2005, when he rode for RAGT Semences.
His motorcycle dealership is the British motorcycle shop Paul Milnes Cycles in Bradford, which many readers know well and possibly would have bought a motorcycle or parts before. They are looking for $2999.99 (US$3770) for this, and postage is loose if it was also founded in the UK.
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