[CR]Re: Carlsbad frame production

(Example: Humor:John Pergolizzi)

From: <BobHoveyGa@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:12:51 EST
To: losgatos_dale@yahoo.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Carlsbad frame production

Your #01 could be hard to date because it has neither the usual Carlsbad serial number or the "Mx" number of a Mario "one-off". But my guess is that it is almost certainly a '75. I believe John said he ordered M5 in early '75 but did not receive it for many months, perhaps because Mario bumped him to work on M6 and M7 which were for friends of his. While I have not seen M7 and have only a verbal description of M6 (for now), the details of your bike match M6 very closely, with several 'later' characteristics such as the triangular BB tang windows, counterbored hole for the front brake washer, and the "interrupted" dropout millings. So it could have been built after M6 & M7. Perhaps the unusual serial number suggests that the frame was begun by Mario and finished by someone else? There may be a (remote) possibility that you own the las t Masi that Mario worked on.

Bob Hovey Columbus, GA

In a message dated 11/24/04 2:40:59 PM, Dale writes:


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> Anyone: ANY educated ideas where my MC61 01 falls in the Carlsbad timeline?
> I know its not literally "the first" because the initial serialization
> series is well-documented. Do you (or any others) have an idea?? 1973? 1974? not
> likely 1975 is it? Impossible to tell???
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