In fact, Faliero addressed that topic in that same article:
Masi: "I have no competitors, only copiers."
Masi: "Just look at those indented seat stay heads..." Interviewer: "Yes, what about them?" Masi : "They were designed right here in 1965. " Tarantino: "Now everyone is using them."
In a message dated 3/4/03 6:05:23 PM, chuckschmidt@earthlink.net writes:
>Bob Hovey wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 3/4/03 1:16:58 PM, The Great and Powerful Lou Deeter
>> writes:
>>
>> > I suppose I always thought that the Merckx design was more influenced
>> >by Ugo Derosa than by Masi, but then, maybe Derosa was influenced by
>Masi.
>> >
>>
>> According to Faliero, that would be a big "yes he was"... In an interview
>in
>> an old "Winning" magazine (sept 84 I think), Faliero tells the interviewer,
>> "DeRosa copied my special fork head" ... "I called him on the phone
>and told
>> him he was a !!*#%!"
>
>So anyone know or have any idea who first came up with the fluted seat
>stay end that you see on Faliero Masi's Gran Criteriums (the earlier
>Special model from the 60s had a flat diagonal cutoff seat stay end).
>In my opinion, the most sophisticated looking seat stay end by far.
>
>My second fav, is the wrapping double fluted seat stay cap you see on
>some Hetchins. Sort of a gothic look that complements the lug treatment.
>
>Chuck Schmidt
>L.A.