this masi thread regarding 'who was buds with whom' is surely one of the odd ones. as far as stickers and pipes go, my TWO italian made 1971 masis have reynolds stickers. i put them on the restoration because they were on originally. but careful here: the sticker says '531 main tubes', inferring that the forks and stays were columbus. and they are.
i actually think that sr. masi omitted tubing decals because he hated the decal guy, not the tubing maker. i mean..."where is this thread going???"
e-RICHIE chester, ct
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:13:20 EDT NortonMarg@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 6/17/02 10:28:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> rena.cutrufelli@comcast.net writes:
>
> << My 83 Masi GC is Columbus SL, according to Mr. Tesch who would
> know for
> sure
> cause he built it. Yet it also has no decal identifying tubing.
> Maybe Masi
> went through periods where it was their practice not to use these
> tube
> identifying decals? >>
> My recollection of the Italian GCs I saw then, is that none of them
> had
> tubing stickers on them. If Masi was mixing tubes, stickers become a
> little
> problematic. It doesn't look good to have one sticker on the
> triangle and
> another on the forks. "well, what are the stays made of?" would come
> up ad
> infinitem. Masi was building a brand. My guess is Faliero made a
> conscious
> decision to leave the stickers off the GCs.
> Stevan Thomas
> Alameda, CA