再談 Eddy Merckx Mx-Leader

Competitive bike 裡有一篇關於 PEGORETTI BIG LEG EMMA 的介紹

裡面有一段提到鋼管車的特性

Steel provides a dynamic ride unlike other materials. It's just about as smooth as titanium on rough roads, while providing superior stiffness for climbs and sprints. It's nonetheless a relatively inexpensive material, and its intrinsic strength gives builders unparalleled latitude to showcase their craftsmanship by manipulating the tubes and lugs in ways as individualized as a jazz musician handles a solo.
鋼材的高剛性給予了車架師父各種設計的可能性, 發展出各種變化, 像是爵士音樂般各種自由組創作的可能,展現出樂手對於音樂不同的詮釋 .






















It's almost as though this is operative thought behind the genesis of our two favorite steel bikes to ride and talk about - the Eddy Merckx MX Leader and the Pegoretti Big Leg Emma.

If the composite and alloy bikes we sell inevitably elicit analogies to F-1 cars, the MX Leader and the Big Leg Emma can only be compared to armored personnel carriers. They are both quite stout.

But where the MX Leader gets its heft by the use of heavy tubing drawn with impressively thick walls, the Big Leg Emma is beefy thanks to Pegoretti's use of his signature wide tubing diameters in combination with the unique installation of multiple horizontal plates in the downtube to provide torsional stiffness and otherwise allow the frame to resist the power-robbing flex naturally caused by pedaling forces.


The Soul of a Bicycle by Rick Denney

In my own case, I want a bicycle that was designed by someone who seems to like bicycles. My favorite road bike is an Eddy Merckx MX-Leader. Merckx builds these bikes in limited quantities, and when bought new they are not cheap. In looking at the bike, though, it has a purity of design concept that clicks with me. The tubes are massively (for steel) oversized, and shaped to maximize vertical strength at the head tube and lateral stiffness at the bottom bracket. The chain stays are fully 1.5 inches tall at the bottom-bracket shell—twice as big as most bikes—which is one of the real secrets of stiffness against a swaying bottom bracket. The steel fork is almost aero-bladed, with a beautiful externally lugged crown. The relatively slack geometry turns all this stiffness into a smooth ride. Despite being one of the most expensive production frames on the market, it is also one of the heaviest.

Why would a company, knowing the market attractiveness of building lighter frames, offer as their top-of-the-line their heaviest bike? It is because the designer had a philosophy that weight was less important than other things, and the courage to defy market trends to carry out that philosophy.

Dr.蕭 最近似乎特別推崇PEGORETTI 的車子, 我相信如果PEGORETTI 的性能能與 Mx-Leader 相提並列或是更好的話, 那踩踏之間的回饋應該是會給予車主心中不時的激盪衝擊著, 就像是料理鼠王中那位美食評論家第一次吃到那老鼠做的那道菜, 或是像香水中, 所有的人聞到那獨一無二的香水一般, 感動到痛哭流涕, 讚嘆的說出 :
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