In a message dated 2/9/2003 3:20:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, italianthread@cox.net writes:
<< This Maza Promax 90 is tig welded and over-built, with the Max shaped tubes & aero fork blades. >>
Arrrgghhh!!!! Someone run and turn the Off-Topic alarm off, it's killing my ears! This Maza talk does point up that these guys are likely still at it somewhere in Italia as there is no way that bike could have been early to mid 1980s with tig welding, right? Interesting as this is probably just another small builder who is unknown of late in the USA....
By the way, while we drift off topic (!) in the industry I am hearing more and more that these welded bikes, famous names supposedly Italian, British, etc., are in fact made elsewhere, far away in one of the Chinas... Obviously we already know about Masi, "Mercier", "Motobecane" much less "Weyless" parts but I am talking about the BIG prestigious "small makers"... I find this very discouraging and even more reason to scamper back to our focus time frame or the true keepers of the flame!
Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina