Re: [CR]Masi Prestige Design Features

(Example: Framebuilders:Mario Confente)

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:35:30 -0800
From: "krawls" <krawls100@gmail.com>
To: Joe Starck <josephbstarck@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Masi Prestige Design Features
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These two Masi bikes were side by side at the 2004 Cirque. I believe the paint on both to be original. I was quite surprised at how orange Wayne`s was beside mine. From his early pictures I thought it was red.

Mine came from a local friend who bought it many years ago from a seller in Switzerland I think. It had a cool Masi logo pump that was destroyed in shipment to the US.

http://client.visuallink.com/~krawls/38ae8ee0.jpg

http://client.visuallink.com/~krawls/38ce8ee0.jpg

Karen Rawls Winchester VA

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:02:53 -0800 (PST), Joe Starck <josephbstarck@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- krawls <krawls100@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a similar Prestige.
> >
> > http://client.visuallink.com/~krawls/id52.htm
> >
> > Decals are not the same though.......
>
> Looks as nice as Charles,' Karen. They're both so
> new-like glossy though, so have they been repainted?
> If so, by who, and when? The Alberto-style sig and
> Masi-font is the same as on 3Vs of the 80s, but I've
> never seen a head-badge logo like that, and I like it
> better than what went on GCs. I don't think the GC
> head badge was thought out very well. And what came on
> 80s Alberto 3Vs, just a Masi, I think, never blew my
> dress up, that's why I put what I put on the 3V I made
> for myself that Tom Sanders now owns, I wish he'd post
> a pic, but if the "Special" style was an option for
> me, I'm not sure which way I'd have gone...Just musing
> here about masi head-badge designs...I wonder when
> Alberto first used his chosen "Masi" font. I'm
> assuming "Specials" were all-Alberto and had nothing
> to do with all-Faliero, since by then a Rancho Santa
> Fe multi-millionaire owned Faliero.
> Joe Starck,
> masidon, WI
>
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