So just how many American frame builders who have since become well known built for Masi at one time or another? I seems as if half the notable builders on the west coast were at Masi at one time. What drew so many people there? Or were they simply the only adequately financed operation building top quality bikes on the west coast the time?
Regards,
Jerry Moos Houston, TX
Joe Starck <josephbstarck@yahoo.com> wrote:
> dave moulton was still at masi in 1983; this is what
> dave says on his
> website:
> "I built custom frames in the Masi shop through 1982
> and up until July of
> 1983 when I moved into my own facility also in San
> Marcos."
Angel,
The "custom frames" he was building during the time
you refer to above, in '82 and '83, were Dave Moulton
frames, not Masis. In Dave's web site he said he quit
making Masis in '81, then arranged to build for
himself in the Masi shop in San Marcos adjacent to
CycleArt on Cribbage Lane. In '83 he secured a small
business loan to start up his own shop across town in
San Marcos. I worked for Dave in this shop on two
occasions, brazing, between down time at my regular
job at Masi. Thanks for mentioning he has a web site.
It was interesting to read what he's been up to since
exiting framebuilding.
> snip:
> Now for something closer to on-topic... does anyone
> have any comments about the $4,000+ price paid
> for a San Marcos Masi GC this weekend? Any idea
> who built it, I'm thinking David Moulton had left by
> this time... Joe Starck maybe?
> Is the winner, "cycling4nutz," a listmember?
> Item # 7113818169
> Bob Hovey
> Columbus, GA
Bob, Given the serial number, D8301, that it was the first frame built in the fourth quarter of 1983, I'm 99.99% sure that the frame was made by Dave Tesch. He and I talked on the phone throughout Oct, Nov and Dec of '83 about coming to work for him, and so I know he was making the GCs during that time. I came to work for Dave on Dec 16 of 1983 and worked for Dave on 10 Masi frames during the last two weeks of that year in the San Marcos/Cribbage Lane shop I mentioned above, so any frames Dave and I worked on -- together -- would have been higher numbered than the ebay "01." Joe Starck Madison, Wisconsin
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