your masi would've had dubois lugs, produced with integral 'rings'. (unlike bocama lugs on which rings are welded on). the cinelli has lugs which were not produced with rings. most lugs aren't/weren't. dubois/nervex lugs had the rings as a design element as well as a function provider. your pics are not close enough to see the shapes, but if you truly have an early 70's calimasi, it'd have the dubois lugs, and i have never seen any dubois-ed lug masi without the rings. except for a couple made by those rascal new guys on their own time! any better close-ups of the head tube, fron the side? e-RICHIE
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:07:37 -0500 "David Goerndt" <davidg@iag.net>
writes:
> My earlier question about Masi decals has turned up an unrelated
> little
> oddity I thought someone might be able to answer. Richard Sachs
> noticed the
> lack of a flange on the head lugs of the Masi I recently purchased.
> Now I
> never noticed this before, but since it was pointed out i went
> looking at
> other photos of Masis to see if they had similar details. All of the
> bikes I
> could locate photos for had the flange, while some was too hard to
> tell. My
> question then is: is this a modification someone made after the fact
> or is
> it original? I see no reason why someone would remove the flange,
> but then I
> have no info on the bike before it was sold to me. My '63 Cinelli
> has
> similar missing flanges on its head lugs.
>
> David "Puzzled" Goerndt