Re: [CR]seat stay treatments

On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 02:59 PM, goodrichbikes wrote:
> As someone that's less enamored with Masi than most on the list, Masi
> style as a general term for concave seat stay plugs or caps makes me
> grimace.

I feel the same way about Masi as Curt and I want to try and draw this to an end. I've surveyed the CR Masi page http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/Masimain.html and here are my observations using The Paterek Manual as a reference. Of the three Masi's stay ends that you can see pictures of Brian's Special is a Standard-Flat. The next bike is e-richie's GC's have Standard-Concave. Lastly we have Steve Benson's Prestige with the REAL Masi style endcaps. Steve's are the only one's that can be considered Masi style.

If anyone still feels that standard-concaves should still be called "Masi Style" please bring some documentation to the table. I really don't care what Faliero thinks they should have been called. Concave caps and ego-maniacal framebuilders were around long before him, and will be around long after him. I have many books on bikes and have never heard of concave seatstay ends called Masi. Can we please get back to bickering about Campagnolo anodizing. thanks, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives SB, CA