Jim Cunningham writes:
> This MASI frame was built by Mario at Masi while I worked there with him.
The client was Sam Bloomfield of San Diego, an elderly gent who wanted the
lightest possible bike.
If this is the same frame, there remains the question of how it ended up in Italy in the posession of a friend Mario raced with as a teen... one would assume that he got it directly from Mario. I suspect that this must be a different frame.
> no Masis, regardless of whether Mario built them or not were ever
painted with Confente decals during Mario's lifetime. I suspect he would
have disapproved.
Frames M6 and M7 were delivered painted and undecaled to Fred and Irene Ferrari who applied prototype Confente decals to them with Mario's blessing. The present location of M7 is unknown (by me anyway... would sure like to hear from anyone who knnows where this bike is) but John Pergolizzi owns M6.
> It nice to know that this frame still exists, I don't think there were any
other 4 hole bikes.
John Jorgensen owns two Masis, M4 (road) and M5 (sprint) with four holes, as
does #01 owned by Dale Phelps. M3, a pursuit bike formerly owned by John, also had four holes. I would assume Jerry Ash's bikes (M1, M2) also had fo ur holes. These are just the ones I know about, there are probably others.
Bob Hovey
Columbus, GA