RE: [CR]Colnago/Masi Comparison-How about DeRosa?

From: "Mark" <rena.cutrufelli@comcast.net>
To: "'Daniel Artley'" <dartley@co.ba.md.us>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]Colnago/Masi Comparison-How about DeRosa?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:33:08 -0500
In-Reply-To: <s059667a.065@co.ba.md.us>

Under DeRosa Michael Kone and Sheldon Brown's vintage list http://www.sheldonbrown.com/vrbn-a-f.html states that many consider Masi, Cinelli,and DeRosa to be the top three. It seems many on the list favor Colnago (esp supers or Mexico) above all else though. All this talk about Colnagos made me want to try one though just to see. Masi builder Dave Tesch once wrote me that he wanted a Colnago Mexico (Masi, esp the GC was not his very favorite design)

Mark Cutrufelli in nearby Laurel,MD

-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Artley Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:06 AM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Colnago/Masi Comparison

We have such a Masi following on this group. Then again we've got an awful lot of Colnago fans. And yes, we can't forget the Cinelli Super Corsa people out there. For those Cognoscenti out there who own two or all three of these late 60's/ early 70's Colanagos, Masis and/or Cinellis, could we get a comparison (totally subjective of course) between these classic marques? I'd like to know how my early 70's classic compares to the others and I'd like to know just how they stack up. I know there are so many other bikes that might be compared, but these three just seem to have the most long term mystique to me.

Dan Artley
Parkton, Maryland