Classiest head badge

Why vote for classiest head badge goes to Eddy Merckx bikes. My reasons: 1) appealing design, merging his initials and a road bike; 2) the matching of color scheme and badge contours; and 3) metal construction ... a real badge.

 

while I'm partial to my litespeed headbadge, one must consider the one from independent fabrication...one ounce of sterling silver!

 

If your talkin' precious metals, then consider LeMond bikes. theres an option on the Tête de Course for a 24kt. gold (all-be-it-plated) head badge, and 24kt. gold leaf panels. (This one actually belongs to Greg).

 

the i.f. one is nice, and lots of others like seven bikes which comes to mind with mechanical fasteners holding it in place.

i especially dislike the head badge on my lemond, i totalled an 03 zurich and they sent me back a new frame but with the new 04 badge, which is shinny cheap plastic without the world champion colors :-(

 

I don't think current headbadges hold a candle to some of the numerous older ones.

http://nostalgic.net/arc/Badges

 

Carl Strong puts a really cool headbadge on his custom frames. He gets my vote.

 

What a COOL page thank you!

 

Yes... http://nostalgic.net/arc/Badges !!! Totally FTP, but what a collection. Even the idea of a 500 gram badge on a 25 kg bike.

 

No love for Bianchi?

 

Naaa, the headbadge on my '03 Bianchi SL3 frame is pretty plasticky and tacky.

 

I have love for bianchi.....

 

Rivendell has some badges that match any of the older ones...

www.rivebike.com

 

Why do I have a hard time believing that Greg is riding a TRIPLE-Chainring?

 

giant badges look pretty hot

 

I love the badge on my Bianchi XL Carbon - plastic-free zone.

 

IF sterling head badge gets my vote.

 

I'm thinking you haven't seen Greg lately! They had all of the past champions racing at the 25th anniversary of the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival in Wisconsin a couple of years ago. Greg was there because he had won the race a couple of times in the late eighties/early ninties (yes a mountain bike race!). Greg dropped out of the race! Word was that he found a convenient pub not too far off the trail somewhere!

I'm thinking he doesn't train quite as hard as he used to! I'm not really surprised he runs a tripple now. Don't get me wrong, he'd still smoke my ass!

 

Carl does good badges, so does Pegoretti ........

 

Unfortunately, Eddy sold off his name-sake bike company a couple of years ago. The new owners did a complete change to the product range, including a re-design of the company logo. New EM frames now have a boring and generic looking "M" logo and headbadge.

BTW, since when did EM frames have a metal badge? I have never seen that. I have two Merckx's, a steel Corsa and a carbon MXM, neither have a metal badge. What EM model did the metal badge come on?

 

Check out some of these from Jennifer Green.

Customer photos

While I don't have a head badge...yet...I have some of her other work and it is top notch!

Here are a ton more:

http://www.headbadges.com/id74.html